A Visit to the Alpaca Farm

A Visit to Bowen Island

Some photos from our recent trip to Bowen island...Ali and Maddy loved the ferry ride and kayaking with Bill. Although Ali has done some kayaking before, this was the first time sea kayaking...lots of wind and waves! He did a great job managing his own kayak for the three hours out there! Maddy and Bill were first timers for the kayak...it must have been great as Maddy has declared that "on a day like this i don't even need my nintendo!". It was a learning experience for them all especially Bill who learned that it is best to leave the blackberry on land... who knew the kayak could fill with water so easily! Katie and I did a lot of walking on the trails and were lucky enough to see a deer just a few feet from us. It was a full day of outdoor fun!

Sea Kayaking with Dad

The Long Weekend

This weekend we decided to celebrate Victoria day by visiting a local historic site here in BC. We headed to Harrison Mills to the Kilby Historic Site, a 1920's Fraser Valley Living History site. It started as a jersey dairy farm that supplied milk to locals and the city of Vancouver. Here we were able to stroll through 14 original and reconstructed buildings belonging to the Kirby family. The kids participated in an ice cream making demo led by a Kirby himself! It took about twenty minutes of cranking but we did eat some really good ice cream! All the kids enjoyed the farm animals and gardens and homemade playground. As we sat under the wisteria Maddy decided that "some of this old stuff is really cool".

This week I took the kids to the Burnaby Village Museum. It was life in the 1920's...a combination of heritage and replica buildings. The highlight is a 1912 working carousel...the kids and i couldn't resist a ride. One thing we soon found out was that this was not the usual carousel...it was super fast! In 1912 the carousel was built for adults not the kids so they were a lot faster than what we would ride today. Katie was the only one who probably would have preferred it to be a little slower...the rest of us enjoyed the wind blowing our hair!

Deer Lake

This week the kids and I went to Stanley Park again...this was the third time for us...but the kids just keep asking to go back. I have a list of parks I was going to take them to, and every time we head out they ask to go back to the same one! I'm not really surprised...the first visit there we did the aquarium, the totem poles and some trail walks. The second visit we did the "touristy" things and then hit the beach. So this time they finally noticed there was an actual playground! So we played! Afterwards we hit the beach again to do some crabbing! Ali could spend the entire day there looking for little creatures!

A Day at the Lake

The weather isn't great but the scenery is always amazing!

Vancouver Aquarium

Rainy Days

We've had so much rain since we've been in Vancouver that the kids and I have decided that enough is enough...we will just have to get wet! There are things we want to do and see, but if we wait for the weather to cooperate we may never get to see them. So this past week we set out to explore. We went to Burnaby Lake Regional Park and Burnaby Mountain Park. And the funny thing was...although we always seem to have fun wherever we go...we had such a blast exploring and playing in the rain! So this weeks forecast of...you guessed it...more rain...is rather exciting for us to look forward too!!

The Capilano Fish Hatchery