More Canada's Wonderland!

The mountains were so pretty yesterday! As soon as the sun was on them full yesterday morning, WOW! I wish I could have gotten a nice picture while the sun was setting but there would have been glass reflection on the pictures (I took these from work) and it wouldn't have been as nice. But these are awesome!

And, we are expecting up to 20cm more snow today too! Woohoo!

Vancouver. . . .Canada's Winter Wonderland?

I was taking some pictures on my way to work, then of course had to go out and play in the snow at lunchtime and took more pictures on the way home from work, yes, I might be a little obsessed but it doesn't snow that often in Vancouver, because, well, it usually rains A LOT out here, so snow is a novelity!

Woohoo!!! Snow!

It's snowing in Vancouver and it's plus 15 in Toronto. . .is there something wrong with this picture? NOT WHERE I'M STANDING!! The snow is great :) I was going to go to bed but then I saw how much had fallen on the ground! Awesome!

The Rolling Stones ROCKED!

I went to see the Rolling Stones last night, it was off the hook! My seats were a little high. Let's put it this way, if I stood on my chair I would have been able to touch the inflated roof! However, didn't matter, was great to be there. It was the last show of their Bigger Bang tour. The stage was incredible. All of a sudden part of the floor lifts and it goes down a conveyor belt towards the end of the floor seats and they sing probably three songs before moving back to the original stage. Very cool!! The show was sold out and the audience was LOUD! Loved it!!!

Way to go BC Lions!!

Woohoo! Street party! The BC Lions brought the Grey Cup to the Art Gallery for a little lunch time party. Lots of people showed up to help the Lions celebrate their win. And, they even fixed the cup intime to bring it back to Vancouver too!

Vancouver's Santa Claus Parade

It ended up being a beautiful day on Sunday for the 3rd Annual Santa Claus Parade. I made it to the parade just in time for the Tim Horton's float to drive by! Was fun, got to eat lots of chocolate, except one of the groups was just throwing the candy on the street for people to pick up, which I thought a little odd, besides that, it was Halloween Candy!!! There lots of people as well, somewhere around 250,000 lined the route to wait for Santa. I think they said the parade was to last about one hour, I showed up at about 2/3's of the way along the route, I'm not sure how long previously it started before I showed up but it was well over two hours I'm sure!















Santa!!

Lest we Forget

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Lietenant Colonel John McCrae

Memories of Denman Island - Part One

I received my cd of pictures from the Denman Island Retreat on Friday. It was nice looking over the pictures, thinking of the memories of Denman Island. For anyone that hasn't been on Denman Island, take a trip there and stay for a few days, each time you go, you will stay for longer and longer each time. There's not a lot to do there but that's the best part!

The Back Hall of Denman Island, where all the magic happened (below)

The Dancing! (below)



The shopping!!! The shopping was good, we love Brenda when she comes to town!