Home for the Holidays

There's no place I'd rather be than back in Dorion at this time of year. Unfortunately David is still in BC. In order to take advantage of seat sale pricing I had to leave 9 days earlier and will be coming back one week later than he will. I wasn't sure we'd even make it after Bekah and I both caught colds in the middle of last week. In fact we postponed our flight for 2 days to give us extra time to recuperate. The flights from Abbotsford to Calgary, Calgary to Winnipeg and finally Winnipeg to Thunder Bay went well but ended up aggravating our colds and making the next couple of days quite miserable. I'm happy to say we are now feeling much better and I know Bekah is eagerly awaiting the arrival of her "dada"!

Vancouver Aquarium

I can't believe I forgot to post these! We went to the Vancouver Aquarium last weekend and it was great! A couple from our church gave us complimentary passes and there was a good break in the rainy/snowy weather so we went. It was so cool! There were all sorts of sea animals! It's definitely a place to go back to again and again. Bekah was delighted by all the "fishies" but because we kept her in the stroller most of the time she got pretty fidgety by the end of it. Most of what we saw was indoors in big tanks and the only lighting was in the tanks, so many pictures didn't turn out well but here's what we were able to see:

A small shark

Some kind of ugly looking fish...it was probably the size of a small dog

Bekah checking some little sea creatures in the Kids Area

A turtle from the Amazon Rainforest exhibit

A tropical bird

Sea otters...they are so cute!!

Beluga whale...beautiful!

Bekah and Jess watching the Belugas from the inside.

This was the ugliest fish by far! It's a sturgeon and it was gigantic. I forget exactly how big it was but it was probably as big as the boat it was caught by!

Bekah and Dave getting ready for the dolphin show

This was the best part of the visit :)

OK, Who's out there??

I'm not sure if anyone out there watches the CTV show Corner Gas (which was filmed an hour away from where we used to live in Saskatchewan) but an episode a couple weeks back got me thinking....Here's the basic premise; Hank (the village idiot) decides to start a blog where he posts all his meaningless and tiresome meanderings. Eventually the townsfolk get the idea that if he starts to tell a boring story, they tell him to post it on his blog so they can read it. This gets him off their backs and gives Hank something to do. But in reality no one is reading his blog, only his friend Brent, who fills everyone else in on what's posted so that when asked they can say they read it. Which leads me to my next question....who's reading this blog? We originally started the blog to keep friends and family posted on our adventures now that we are so far from home. So who's really reading (aside from my DBC friends who I'm so happy to keep in touch with!!)? Have I turned into Hank?? :) So if you read this post, please leave a comment and say hi, no matter who you are! PS - I'm meaning this in the most lighthearted of ways and in no way am condemning anyone (you know who you are Meg!) :)