I’m home now and finally able to sit down and write this while I nurse the little one…
So, after McClymount park our plan was to head to Smithers. Annie had an eye appointment at 2pm and with a 4 hour drive and 3 kids in tow, we decided that we needed to leave bright and early. One thing about Wilhelmina is that she may not like short car rides, but longer ones are a different story. We were able to drive about 2 1/2 hours before she started to wake up and when she did so we were just right next to an amazing Organic Bakery. We stopped for a treat, some coffee for me, and a bathroom brake and a nurse and then headed back on the road for the final stretch, arriving in Smithers with about 2 hours to spare before the appointment.
I actually didn’t get many pictures of Smithers because I was just enjoying walking and hanging out with Annie and the kids. We checked into our hotel and right away decided that we might spend two nights instead of just one. We headed over to fellow blogger Taimarie‘s home for a nice supper and to hang out and I was so happy to get to know them. Taimarie also met up with us the next day for lunch and a walk which was equally great…
We headed back to Prince-Rupert slowly on Saturday morning and saw the first bit of rain in more than a week…
On Sunday we headed out to Kloiya Bay with Erin, Keith and little Hayden. The weather called for rain in the afternoon so we decided to go in the morning before the rain came and by luck, we didn’t get any rain at all, but we did get tons of wind which made Willa gasp a few times…
What another beautiful place. The tide was going out so every few minutes new beach appeared along with new little hidden creatures. Erin and Keith had brought their little rubber boat and the crab trap and Cam headed out with the baited trap to put it down. The dogs, not wanting to be left behind ran and swam, following them and because of the lowering tide and sand banks they looked at times as if they were running on the water. The trap stayed down for just an hour or so but we had 8 crabs in that time (3 that were big enough to keep) and we cooked them right then and there on the beach… Amazing and delicious!
Finally on Monday we took the day to stay around the house, do laundry and just hang around and planned on going to the museum on Tuesday as I was leaving Wednesday… The museum was great, though I didn’t get any pics, and I was able to finish my tourist shopping there and at another little store after eating an amazing lunch at the Cow Bay café…
If was an amazing week to end the perfect vacation… (have I said amazing enough in this post??… it all truly was 🙂 )
