Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

Our Winter Wonderland view. First annual snowfall in the Lower Mainland. The local mountains have been getting dumped on for the last month and it finally came down here.

Don't think people will be sitting out in the court yard today:)

However, anyone wanting lodging to come and enjoy an epic alpine season give us a call.

Grampa's tree is standing strong through all kinds of weather.

A Long Awaited Visit Part I

On October 20th we flew out to Ontario for our much needed vacation. It had been two years since our last visit and we had 5 new members of the family to meet.

Our first stop was to the Toronto area for our friends Mike and Marta's wedding. Their wedding was a cultural first for both Aidan and I. Mike and Marta are Polish so their entire wedding and reception was in Polish, even the live band at the reception sang in Polish, it was fantastic and a wedding we wouldn't miss for the world. I felt as if were in "my big fat greek wedding" only Polish style.

While in the Toronto area we stayed at Aidan's sister Chris and her boyfriend Logan's place. This is where we were able to meet the first 2 members of the family that we hadn't met yet. Somehow we made it home without a picture of Chris and Logan but we did get pictures of Lexi and Stanley, the new additions.

Both Lexi and Stanley are very small parrots, they are both incredibly smart and you have to be carefull with what you say because they do copy you. Lexi is the blue one, she entertained us for quite a while on the kitchen table playing with her ball and attacking a pencil. Stan is a little more outgoing and social, as much as Chris and Logan are training him, I think Stan has done a great job in acutally training them, it's great. Between the two birds they have more toys than an average child, there is nothing wrong with spoiling your animals.

After our visit we were on our way to Cornwall, where the rest of Aidan's family lives. Our time was spent the best way possible, with family. We decided that this visit we wouldn't do a lot of sight seeing, instead we spent more time visiting.