Brek/Whistler

July 2 - July 16, 2007

Paul and I traveled to Brekenridge, CO for a week with his parents and his brother, wife, and two kiddos. We had our orientation for being big fourth year medical students and left the following week. In Brek we biked, hiked, rode ATV's, and went sailing. We also spent a day in Leadville, which is a very old mine town that actually brought the money to CO allowing Denver to be built. We went on a nice bike ride that also had many old mines and historical markers along the way to stop and look at. It was a very unique town. Paul's brother and family went on a train ride that went to an old mine and went up the mountain - pretty cool. It was a great time!! We also had to study a bit for our Board exam - which is July 26th.
After a week in Brek, we headed up to Whistler, B.C. We landed in Seattle and drove up to Vancouver for a day. We stopped at Stanley Park to walk around a bit ... but Paul was very sure he knew exactly where he was going and our little walk turned into 4 hours of walking -- I think we about walked the whole park. It is an awesome park though. Lots of animals, a rose park, along the pier, and lots of greenery. We saw people hand-feeding squirels, raccoons, and other animals - everything was so tame. We than continued on to Whistler -- which is a beautiful drive along the coast.
Paul was in a wedding of friends from college ( Nash and Christa) and they were getting married here. They were having an adventure wedding, with week long activities in Whistler, which included white water rafting, downhill mountain biking, mountain biking, an adventure race, and many other fun things. WHISTLER IS BEAUTIFUL. I know that it is well known for it's skiing, but the summer time is awesome as well. We studied a bit here too, but it was so hard because there was so much to do.