New Year 2006

You know, I can't remember a more random evening than this in a long time!

After having been in Whistler for roundabouts 24 hours before New Years Eve coming along, we were kind of counting on there being a bunch of 6 other people in our condo who had already been out here for amonth, hada bunch of contacts and knew where to go. As there was just 3 of us who had arrived at the same time, it was a little more difficult than that. We got in touch with one of the other chalets run by the same company, who said they were heading down to a place called Merlins. We'd deciaded pretty much the same thing as it was 5 bucks to get in, rather than $50-100. They said they were going down at 4pm, which seemed a bit excessive. Of course, when we strolled down about 7pm, there was a mile long queue and no hope of getting in. Luckily, next in line were three girls-two Aussies and a Kiwi. We all got talking, they'd driven up and didn't have anywhere to stay, we had somewhere to stay, but no friends, so we did the only sensible thing; invited them up to our place, stopped by the liquor store, and partied the night away. Come midnight time, we were all down in the hot tub, along with about 10 other Canadians and Americans seeing the new year in. Totally awesome as they say over here (a lot), apart from the fact everyone kept asking where in Australia I was from!

Come the next day the plan was to go tubing, have a few drinks, then the girls were going to head off to Vancouver Island. Got back to the appartment, and their car had vanished! I think this had something to do with them parking in a bus stop in front of a fire hydrant. Queue more drinks, more hot-tub time and merriment!