Vancouver April 2009!!!
My girls had spring break last week. Mike had to work so we were planning to have a STAYCATION and find some things to do around town. However, at the very last second we accepted an invitation to visit the Dahl's in Vancouver! We decided, packed up and were in Vancouver less than 24 hours after we decided to go! The girls were sooooooooo excited to go and see cousins and PLAY PLAY PLAY! They were great helpers as we got ready to go. The weather was so nice in Vancouver! The sun was shining so we headed to the lake for some swimming! Well the water was FRIGID..but some of the kids didnt care and headed on in. We all had to work hard to keep James out of the water because he was bound and determined to get in and play.
James escaping to the cold lake!
One of the activities of the week was the Vancouver Aquarium. The kids all loved this. It started with a really cute Dolphin show which James LOVED! We also saw a Beluga whale show, A Sea Otter show, and a bird show (also a hit with James as it is one of his few words 'B'). We loved the sharks and the jelly fish. They had all kinds of creatures beautiful and strange. It was such a fun afternoon and in the sun too!
These kids LOVE to swim. So of course we had to have an afternoon of swimming! They swam and swam and swam. They loved the high dive board and the wave pool & slide! They had strict photography rules in the pool so I couldnt get many photos...but it was such a fun pool and all the kids had a ball!
While we were there all the trees went into full blossom! These trees were stunning and we all enjoyed finding them! They looked like fluffy puffs of clouds everywhere we went. I didnt get great pictures of them..but the trees were so stunning I had to include what I could get.
We loved walking around in the sunshine and eating Italian Gelatos! Delicious! I cant speak for the other flavors...but I enjoyed Coconut Cream!! Oh it was good....wish I could get another!!
The little girls chose Marshmallow Smurf...light blue in color! They said it was YUMMO!!
We also walked around down by the port. The kids loved to play on the fun ship park! As the sun was descending it got a little chilly. We walked out to the pier and ran into cousin Katie with her cute friends. I think she thought we were spying on her and taking pictures....but we soooo were not! It was total COINCIDENCE!!! She is so cute! (PS if you look closely in this picture you can see Katie and her friends way down at the end of the pier...we had NO idea!!
We had to quickly snap a photo...it was so cold and windy the further out we went on the pier. We were feeling really sorry for the bride getting pictures...she looked FROZEN!
We had a FUN FUN getaway! Mary and her family are so fun to visit! The kids played from sun up to sun down! They hated to leave...but alas more parties are in store this weekend! A huge HUGE HUGE thank you to all the Dahl's for letting us bunk in and take over their house! Thank you for all the delicious meals and treats!! We felt truly spoiled!! Mary kept telling her friends that her sister in law and her 4 kids were in town visiting and every time she said it I had to gasp..that is a lot of kids and to have all of us invade your house is truly generous! Thank you for the fun fun spring break!
Blogger note: this was my first attempt at a Collage...I think it is too small...Ill have to work on that!
10 comments:
Love the collages, they look great! Those Vancouverites don't know how lucky they are to be surrounded by all that beautiful WATER! Looked like a fun week...we must get out there soon.
I know...they are lucky..oceans and mountains! They say it rains alot but all the times we have been...we have had SUN! So nice!
THANK YOU for coming! It felt like another spring break for us to have you here. Pure fun and vacation again. I love having my house full of family, love watching the cousins laugh & play together, I loved going adventuring with you, but truly my favorite part was having you here Lisa to talk to every day and especially at night when we stayed up with Katie, Alex and Dan and talked, watched American Idol and laughed. SO FUN! So glad you are so spontaneous and hopped on that airplane -- now that I know that, I'll be asking more often. Love you all and can't wait for this weekend.
It was sooo much fun!!! I'm soo glad you guys came!! see you in two days :)
I am glad you had a fun spring break! I love gelatos too!
looks like you guys had a lot of fun! The Lastt time i went to vancouver i was only 2 years old. The aquariun is really cool!
wow wow you guys are partiers! it looks like funn! the collages looked really cute and the italien gelato's look yummah! but i am glad use guys are back!
looks like such a fun spur of the moment vacation!!! if you have anymore of those spur of the moment vacation moments.. come here ;)
Hey I love that word you used, the staycation! We did that! But yours looked like so much more fun!!!
Looks like you had a great trip! I've been to that aquarium and the Beluga whales were my favorite part! Your collage pictures are beautiful and if you click on the collage it will enlarge to full screen and you can scroll around, so I think you did a great job!
Take care. We miss you guys and think of you often.
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