No work, Cultural centre

So we finally got two nights off from the diner which was very nice... The overtime was certainly needed but having a night off together is good too!

We wanted to go skating yesterday but we never seem to be able to make it on time! So we decided to go to the Skwxwύ7mesh Lil'wat7ul (Squamish-Lil'wat) Cultural Centre. The Squamish and Lil'wat peoples are two groups who live along the east coast, and thier territories overlap in Whistler. They used to fight over whose territory it was, but they eventually decided they both owned it, and recentley the cultural centre was built here. The centre was really good, it had lots of art, canoes, sculptures, native clothing, etc. You get to see a film and a tour, which was really good. All the people who work there are native, which was cool as a lot of the people in the photos in the centre were the tour guides family and ancestors. There was so many legends and stories, but my favourite was probably that they believe that mountains were once people. People or places got tranformed into mountains when they did or represented something good. We also made bracelts out of cedar bark; the cedar tree is very crucial to thier culture as it provides clothing, bedding, shelter, hats, jewellery, etc. Jon was better than mine :)
Anyway, it was really good and when we're richer we'll be going back to spend a lot of money, probably! The guy up top there is on a sea canoe, and represents a brother was changed into stone after he saved his brothers. The hole in his mouth is for a sail. You can see more photos of the centre here.

After that we deviated from our diet of diner food and went the The Brewhouse for... well, pizza and chicken and beer, which was pretty similar to what we eat at work! (See, Granny, I told you we were eating well!) But it was good to relax and not be in the diner!

Still not snowing.

Robyn (eating peanut-butter coated maltesers)