Big White- Day 2

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Woke up to light rain fall that soon turned to snow, which then turned to pretty heavy snow. Went for a walk into town again, still not much happening yet, just more preparation for when the season begins.

Took some time looking up accommodation on the net and notice boards - doesn't look like there is too much available (yet?). Apparently more comes available after this coming weekend when the owners come up and prepare their rentals. We were however, approached earlier this evening by a group of 6 others who asked is we were interested in sharing a big house in Snow Pines with them. My first impression was: 6 others? No. Snow Pines? No. But they seemed really enthusiastic about it, so Daniel and I went down for a walk.

The house is very impressive. It's newly fitted out, based on 3 levels, with four huge bedrooms, two bathrooms, a large balcony with bbq and hot tub, a very large central fireplace in the middle of the upper living area and huge lounge room. The kitchen is gorgeous. Overall, the house is very, very nice. Not something I had expected to even consider staying in.

As nice as it is however, it's still with 6 others (although they seem nice enough), and it's still $50/month over our anticipated maximum budgest for accomodation, and it's still in Snow Pines. Snow Pines is great, but it isn't exactly central. It's about a 10-15 minute walk from the centre of the village, but there are ski lifts down there too, and shuttle busses that come up every 30 minutes, and we are still able to ski/ride to our doorstep. It's just not a matter of walking out and being the middle of it all. Snowpines is where the big resort houses are, I think for the holiday makers who come here each season.

So we just need to make a decision about what we want to do.

(written by Stacey)

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