Dear Whistler, I hadn't been to visit you in years. In fact, the only time I visited you--before just recently--was when I didn't even live near you! I'm so sorry for that, because now I know you better. What a nice idea, to go up to you for the day, though, to realize how easy that was. To breathe in your air and see your sights and familiarize myself with your space! To drive back home in the dark, the kids falling asleep in the backseat after a full experience. To realize we needed to do that again soon. But not for awhile, we'd thought. Then! Do you know what happened? Two days later an old friend from when I was a tween/teen contacted me on social media! I hadn't talked to her since 1998. And here she was messaging me out of nowhere! Asking me if I wanted to take her family's timeshare in Whistler for the week, that I'd pay a really cheap fee for it. They couldn't come, cause of the COVID border closure between the US and Canada.  Yes YES YES!! I th