I was thinking about this blog, and how my motivation for blogging pretty much went down the drain once school started. In all honesty, I think I could just be in a rut of routine. I do the same thing pretty much every week:
Monday: Work
Tuesday: Relax for a busy 3 days at school
Wednesday: School
Thursday: School
Friday: School
Saturday: Relaxing after a busy 3 days at school.
Sunday: Work.
As you can see, it doesn't appear as though I'm really busy at all, but those 5 days of school/work are actually crazy draining and make me SO tired. I have pretty much no time for anything fun or awesome... I'm also exceptionally broke, so fun and awesome things are generally not done because of that too, BUT for the last 3 days I got the wonderful gift of a holiday away from work and school. I got to go to Whistler with my wonderful boyfriend Alex, and it was awesome.
Believe it or not, I've never been to Whistler before this weekend. It's really rather close to home, but for some reason I've never made the time to go up there. It's possibly because I don't ski or snowboard, nor do I ever really plan to. I also don't mountain bike, camp in tents or have a crazy desire to party until 5 am, which are really the only things you can do up there. Never the less, we took a short holiday up, and I'm glad we did!
We stayed at the Aava Whistler hotel, which was really nice! It was close to the Village, within walking distance to pretty much everything, and had a really nice, modern style. We didn't spend a lot of time at the hotel, as we did a lot of walking around the village, but if you're looking for a nice and less expensive hotel to stay at up there, consider it!
While we spent some time wandering the village, the real reason we went up there was this amazing spa just north of the village.
The Scandinave Spa is a hydrotherapy spa, so it all revolves around water. They have several hot pools and cold pools, a dry sauna and a steam room, plus multiple solariums and relaxation areas filled with hammocks and comfortable sun bathing chairs. The idea is, you spend about 10-15 minutes warming up in a hot area, be it the steam room or a hot pool, from there you run and spend a few seconds in a cold pool, and then you spend 15 minutes or more relaxing. After that you start the whole thing over again. It's suppose to promote better circulation, help to detoxify your body and your skin, and of course help with lowering stress.
It's is so relaxing, and so invigorating... but it's exhausting. We were there for 5 hours, and it was just such a great way to spend the day. It would have been nice if it was a little bit sunnier, and a little warmer, but it was still amazing. Hopefully one day we'll get to go back!
Monday was kind of our "date" day. We went to the spa, enjoyed a delicious dinner at the Keg and went out for a few drinks later that evening. It was nice to get away and just enjoy the company of one another without the burden of work and school looming over our heads. We don't go away and do things like this often, so it was just nice to enjoy time relaxing time together.
I hope you have all been enjoying the summer. I know that with being so busy, I haven't been able to enjoy as much of it as I wish I could, but I'm only 2 months away from being finished school... and then hopefully I'll be on the path toward a career and a life. I've set some goals that I'd like to reach, so hopefully things pull themselves together in the next few months so I'm not too far behind on those goals!
Enjoy the sun, friends! =) It's almost fall! (My favourite season!)
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Blog, and be happy!
Kyleigh.
