We arrived. Finally. Not in Whistler yet, but at least we had made it to Canada. How we all agreed to take a flight via Texas is still a mystery to me, but I had a great voicemail at the Dallas airport from Pin and Ady telling me that we had beaten Australia, so it didn't seem too bad.

Our first 2 weeks were mostly spent acclimatising and sorting ourselves out for the coming months.

Trying to put together a diary for our first week in Canada has proved rather difficult. The fact that the diary part of the website hasn’t been available has meant that the diary is being written two weeks late, and since we’ve accomplished so little, there are few things to jog the memory. What follows is as much as I can remember of week 01.