overheard in the bath…
Xavier: No fear! No fear! There is no fear!
Colin: Fear? What’s fear?
Xavier: The atmosphere! Get it?
BC pics…
Here are some random pics in my Flickr set of pics that I have taken here in BC…
Pretty much all of them were taken with my super amazing new camera… the Pentax K20D !
I am loving it!!
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Cathedral Grove…
Today the two families went to Cathedral Grove to see the majestic Douglas Firs… What an amazing place…
The walk was not too long but just long enough and the views were amazing…
Here you can see just how big some of the trees are….
playing in one of the trees…
It was a bit of a tourist trap even on a rainy Tuesday morning but I am so happy that we went… 
yay! I have internet again!
I left my moms on tuesday the 29th of July and headed to Nelson BC where I grew up… We left at 6:30am and started driving and only made a few stops on the way… We got to Nelson, eager to get out of the car and stretch at about 5:30pm…
In Nelson we stayed with my godmother and godfather… it was a bit weird staying there… both of them are very abrasive with kids… at least with younger kids. My godmother works with at risk teens and knows all about attatchment and has read many of the same books, she uses attachment to get through to kids and get them on a better track and I know that she has done some amazing work… but she can’t seem to get that attachment needs to be worked on with a small child also… I did get her to see that time-outs are not the answer for certain (all) children as they hinder attachment which is the reason that they work…
I wish I would have talked to Annie more while I was there because talking with her gave me a few ideas of what I should have responded… I was in awe though that she could understand everything so well for older kids but not realize that you have to work on the attachment when they are young so that they do not end up like the teens that she works with.
Anyway… we camped out in their backyard and everyday did something different… went to the beach, went shopping, to parks and saw friends.. over the weekend of the 2nd there were a series of parties that were a reunion of sort of friends that met in Nelson in the late 70’s… 3 parties to be exact that were all pretty cool…
Then the rest of the week was meeting with other friends and beaches and more parks and fishing and canoeing and amazing sceneries…
On Friday we left Nelson at about 6:30am and headed back to Vancouver… well… we decided that it would be easier to not stop in Vancouver but head directly on the island to Nanaimo to Annie’s… after traffic, a wrong turn and waiting one sail we got the 7:30 ferry to Nanaimo…
Now I am at Annie’s and loving it!!! and I have internet access again!
A bit of a relax time before Simon heads home without us on Thursday (which I am completely nervous about!)…
I should be able to update a bit more often now and I need to get more pics up again!
last day…
My dad arrived last night and we got him all set up… he has COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and is on oxygen so house-sitting means that he needed to bring his big machine and apnea machine and all of that…
Our bags are packed and pretty much ready to go… just a few last minute things left that I am going to do when I put Khéna down for his nap… I’m nursing him to sleep as I type…
Khéna is in a pretty bad mood at the moment… I think that the atmosphere in the house is really weird for him with my dad, the machines and all of the bags etc…
After lunch I am heading to my friend Gen’s house and Simon will meet me us there and we will sleep there and leave first thing in the morning since she lives minutes from the airport…
I went on the Westjet site this morning and chose our seats so we just have to show up and check the bags now…
I am bit nervous still but once everything is packed and we hit the road I think I will feel better…
BC here we come!!!
btw…. anyone out there who wants to meet up with me… just e-mail me 🙂 I’ll be in Vancouver for a few days… then off to Nelson… then back in Vancouver and I am going on the Island also…