Travel Plans/Whistler 2026

This year, 👶 will join us ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

TODO

• Check which baby stuff is available at the place--just a baby bed; no high chair; there's a blender
• Canadian Costco shopping

Cars

In total:

• People: 10 adults and 1 babe: M M L B W I S K H N P

• Gear: 6 full ski sets? + 2 full snowboard sets? + 1 boots only? + n all rental?

Ride plans:

• Team grey Subaru 👶 (also with tupperware)
  • People: Nadya, Hunter, Pia
  • arrive on Saturday
• Team K will arrive on Friday on a bus from Vancouver and leave on Tuesday on a bus to Vancouver
• Team I will arrive on Saturday midday to Vancouver airport
• Team Red Subaru (has ski Tupperware too!)
  • People: Bryan, Lucy (Friday departure ~1p)
  • Gear: x? ski sets
• Team Scott (has ski tupperware)
  • People: Will, Special, Mika, Mako (Friday departure ~10a)
  • Gear: x2-4 ski sets? + x1 boots only?

Schedule

• 3/6: no check-in until 4PM
  • Check in instructions: will get door code by noon fri, parking pass should be in house
  • 4 bdr (king ensuite, queen ensuite, queen w twin bunk + twin bed, double w twin bunk) + den
    • 👶 needs a quiet room at night with space for her crib, where "night" starts at 7:30pm lol
  • seems like a 2 car garage + parking spot by dumpsters for parking

• 3/7-10: shred 🏂⛷️ + spa ♨️ + crosscountry?

• 3/8 and 3/9, babysitter Katie will be there 9-5

• 3/10: HNPK depart

• 3/11: Checkout at 11AM, everyone else departs.

Food shopping

Reminder: fresh produce is restricted across the border

Food requests: Special doesn't eat cheese.

Food to buy

Canadian Costco (USD, CAD, or Mastercard only)

Ingreds for planned dinners:

• spinach
• avocado (baby eats)
• broccoli (lots)
• tomatoes
• bananas (baby eats)
• oranges
• sweet potatoes (baby eats)
• sandwich bread
• burrito tortillas
• cheese
• milk
• butter
• yogurt
• lots of eggs (baby eats)
• potato chips + snacks
• garlic
• onions
• lemons
• frozen french fries
• granola bars
• lots of tofu
• spindrift/la croix--more needed next year

In Whistler

• more coffee
• pies
• BReD bread

Stuff to bring from home

In B+L car:

• mapo tofu spice
• Long HDMI cable
• butter

Team Will:

• [DONE] golden curry cubes (2.5 boxes)--only 1.5 needed
• [DONE] rice (8cups)--less next year
• [DONE] big peanut butter (partially consumed)
• [DONE] hot chocolate, lots of
• [DONE] tea--more next year
• [DONE] gluten
• [DONE] hot sauce, red and green
• [DONE] pickled veggies for Japanese curry--forgot to take it out of the fridge
• [DONE] Will's bday burrito spices
• [DONE] kewpie--forgot to take it out of the frigde
• [DONE] olive oil--used up a bottle
• [DONE] pepper grinder
• [DONE] ground coffee

Still need:

Equipment to bring

ELS

• [DONE] ELS rice cooker + unit-of-rice-cup
• [DONE] pressure cooker (for cooking extra rice and/or beans)--we didn't use it this year
• coffee beans + hand grinder + filter setup (B)
• cleaning scraper (B)
• citrus squeezer--the house had two, so maybe we don't need it next year
• a good knife

Meal plans

Breakfast stuff (5 mornings)

• bread
• eggs (lots)
• yogurt
• avocados
• milk
• coffee

Lunch stuff (4-5 days for those who want to bring lunch)

• sandwich bread
• cheese
• tortillas (38/bag)

Snacks

• fruits (x2 bunches of bananas, 1 bag of caracara oranges, and tangerines)
• other stuff (x2 bags of chips)

Dinner plans (5 dinners)

Tentative plans

• Fri Fend for yourself
• Sat (H+N) we are going to get Barn Nork Thai takeout for everyone--came with a lot of rice
• Sun (B+L) mapo tofu + greens over rice!
• Mon California Burrito: tomatoes, guac, onions, french fries, seitan.
• Tue (M+M) Japanese curry (use up all the remaining stuff)--we made poutine/burrito/broccoli bowls with the leftover fries, tortillas, and remaining broccoli. We made 2 cups of rice but we only needed 1 cup.

Other ideas

• spinach chickpea stew: spinach, chick pea, can tomato, onion, ginger, garlic, vinegar.
• shepherd's pie
• pasta primavera
• hotdogs
• mashed potatoes and sausages
• omurice
• fried rice
• ramen
• Veggie burger and salad: veggie patties, buns, cheese, spinach, tomatoes, onions, dressing

Potential other dinner thoughts

• no-cheese option needed for each dinner
• also no ultra processed foods (or keep those as optional)

TO REMEMBER

• We had about the right amount of food for 5 nights (3 nights with 10 adults and a baby).
• Bring a good bread knife also
• Canadian Costco only accepts cash (USD too) and Mastercard!
• Bring more non-caffeinated tea and ground coffee
• Less white rice needed
• Less sandwich bread needed as we bought a lot of bread from BReD (4 loaves in 3.5 days).
• BReD is closed on Mondays an Tuesdays.
• We had a bag of lemons without any plans for them but we were able to consume it all as lemon water/beer