Fall 2011

Admit­tedly, in the past 6 months or so since our wed­ding, the fre­quency of our adven­tures has ebbed to a rel­a­tive low.  We have tem­porar­ily shifted our gazes inward, to our home, and each other.  Not a bad thing, unless you have your hearts set on lots of new blog posts…

On the Sep­tem­ber long week­end, we headed out west.  We spent the first night in Yoho National Park, at a provin­cial camp­ground.  To our great sur­prise, we ran into some friends of ours at the same camp­ground in the morn­ing.  It was great to have break­fast with them around their awe­some morn­ing camp­fire, and they invited us to go hik­ing with them that day.  It was a beau­ti­ful hike, up to a per­fect blue-green lake, where we had a pic­nic lunch, and found lots of frogs (or toads, I’m not really sure which).  After the hike, our friends had to head back home, and we aimed south, towards the Pur­cell Moun­tain Range.  We found the beau­ti­ful, peace­ful camp­ground by Mit­ten Lake (thanks to our Camp Free in BC book) for Sat­ur­day night.  It was post­card per­fect, com­plete with call­ing loons.  We will cer­tainly seek it out again some­time.  On Sun­day morn­ing we got up and headed fur­ther south, then back east a lit­tle – down to the Crowsnest Pass, to visit my Aunt & Uncle at their cabin in Cole­man.  We chit-chatted around the fire, then had a dip in the hot tub.  On Mon­day we had a lazy day – Worked on cross­word puz­zles together, and Cora took us each on a quick Rzr (basi­cally an all-terain golf cart) ride.  In the early after­noon, we wan­dered back home.

In early Novem­ber, we flew out to White Rock BC to visit Brian’s mom and aunt for their birth­days.  Tech­ni­cally we were there on his mom’s birth­day, but his aunt’s being only a week prior, we took them both out for birth­day din­ner cel­e­bra­tions.  We went to Sea­sons in the Park, at the top of Queen Eliz­a­beth Park (the high­est land point in Van­cou­ver), then back to Aun­tie Lee’s place for Wacky Choco­late Birth­day Cake.  As usual on our trips to the GVA, we did lots of walk­ing around, breath­ing in the won­der­ful sea air.  We even got to visit our buddy Chris who lives in North Van.  We were just out for the week­end, which felt far too short – but it was all the time Brian could afford with work at the moment.

We’ve stayed in Cal­gary this Christ­mas sea­son, work­ing around the house, and relax­ing a bit – which has been nice.  In a cou­ple weeks, we’ll be head­ing back down to The Crowsnest to Cora’s & Tom’s cabin again, with my sis­ters as well.  We will have good food, good com­pany, good times.

Beyond that, we are plan­ning to go on a Mediter­ranean Cruise in the spring – Sort-of a Hon­ey­moon part 2, and a trip to Hawaii in Jan­u­ary 2013 with sis­ters, bro-in-law, aunt, uncle and cousin!  Lots to look for­ward to, the next year promises to be an excit­ing one!