Highlights of our Trip

Top 10 things that happened during the trip:

1. Endless bantering among the 8 of us. Why only 8? Cos the only 2 non-couple within the group were pretty quiet. Then again, I think Wen and Celia were not that chatty too. Maybe the 6 of us were just too noisy.

2. Endless "tennis" playing (trading of insults) between Neo and Chris. They could go on and on until even the Grandmaster of fan-ness aka PW was "fan2" by them.

3. Endless barking, howling, wimpering by the 320 Alaskan huskies at Algonquin Park. An unforgetable experience.

4. Countless karaoke sessions in our "bus". Chris held his Jay Chou concert while PW and I cheered on by screaming out loud and waving our hands pretending we were holding on the cyalume sticks. We were his only two fans. Poor Chris...

5. Endless questions for our tour guide Tim on what's our itinerary for the next day. "What are we doing tomorrow, huh?" And we usually do not ask when everyone was around. He had to repeat himself at least 4 times!

Even though our good-natured tour guide sent us a rough itinerary which he planned way before we embarked on our trip and told us to include places or activities we fancied, no one really did anything. We just depended on him to do and plan everything. And when something went wrong, who did we blame? Tim of course!

6. Endless suan-ing of our tour guide aka whipping boy Tim. He was called names. From pang chek (This nickname came abt after I called Zhanwen Ah boon chek. Then someone remembered Tim's dialect name as Chin Pang. So now he is called Pang Chek = punctured)to gay shit

PW even came up with a song sang to the tune of Noel.

Here's how it goes...

Gay Ho, Gay Ho
Gay Ho, Gay Ho

Ok, it's not exactly a song...

7. Endless driving. Each time we traveled from one city to another, if mapquest/GPS said we needed 3 hours, it usually meant we would reach our destination in 5. Just cos our "tour" group was so big that even going to the toilet would take us at least 20 mins esp if there's only one restroom at the gas station.

Good thing we had the owner of ZDS (Zhanwen Driving School) driving our "bus" which made our drive a little safer and smoother. He even managed to drive our heavy bus up a snow-covered steep slope after a 15 mins try when all of us had already given up hope.

8. Endless stretch of ski slope. I went up to the midpoint of one of the green ski slopes at Mont Tremblant Ski resort. Took me frigging 3 hours to snowboard down. Tim then went up to the highest point and came down in 45 mins flat. What an insult!

9. Endless eating. This is the first trip I spent more on meals than activities. Usually when we go on trips, we try to eat cheaply most of the time and treat ourselves to expensive food only occassionally. This time round we spent quite abit eating in restaurants.

10. Last but not least, the ever falling temperature. Tim told us we would experience the coldest at the ski resort. Never did we realise that it wasn't gonna be.

One morning at the Algonquin Park (5 days after we left the ski resort), the temperature actually dropped to a friggin -30 degree celsius! We could feel the water in our nose froze instantaneously when we stepped out of our motel. It was as if we had stepped into a giant poultry freezer. Our hands instead of feeling cold began to hurt instead. Good thing was we were actually leaving for Toronto that morning so we didnt have to suffer too much.

That's all for now. Time to sleep.