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Yet more haikus... Day 113 • 26 Dec • Vancouver It's Christmas feast time, But now TWO plagues are circling And soon we are five. Day 114 • 27 Dec • Vancouver We ride the SkyTrain, Drink melted chocolate shots And watch the float planes. Day 115 • 28 Dec • Vancouver Up on
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Some photos from our final days of Vancouver socialising... 0:00 /0:34 1× Then we flew to Vegas!
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The boys have been desperate to go skiing again on this trip (after they had a day of skiing in New Zealand in September 2023). They were very disappointed that it was too early in the season to ski while we were in Europe, so they were very keen to
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Between Christmas and New Year, after B recovered from his bout of norovirus, we headed up to Grouse Mountain for an afternoon. This was one of the group plans we'd had to miss out on earlier that week while the boys were under the weather, but luckily the
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Haiku time again! Day 106 • 19 Dec • Victoria to Vancouver Float planes, ferry ride, Op shops, sushi, Oliver!... A real BC day. Day 107 • 20 Dec • Vancouver Ginger Beef, Green Beans And General Tso's Chicken: Wah Wing happiness. Day 108 • 21 Dec • Vancouver to Langley A dramatic day,
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Presents... Playtime... Food... Merry Christmas!
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It started with a message That seemed inconsequential: “One daughter has a stomach bug; Infection spread’s potential.” We shrugged it off: “She's on day three And sounds almost recovered. We can't wait to get back there For fun yet undiscovered!” So back we went and
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After we returned from Vancouver Island, we had a busy time socialising and catching up with more friends on Thursday and Friday... After this, things went a bit downhill... but you can read about that in the next post!
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In addition to visiting the Victoria Bug Zoo and the Butchart Gardens, here's what/who else we saw on Vancouver Island!
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Another batch of haikus... Day 99 • 12 Dec • Barbados to Miami to Seattle Through gaps in the cloud, Miami blinks far below: A great motherboard. Day 100 • 13 Dec • Seattle to Vancouver Screenprinting by hand: A treat for the boys at our Friends’ shop on Whidbey. Day 101 • 14 Dec
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Another thing we did while in Victoria (on Vancouver Island) was visit the Butchart Gardens to see their Christmas lights. We'd been to the gardens three or four times before, including at Christmas time, and they've hardly changed! They still have the Twelve Days of Christmas
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On the Monday after our first weekend in Vancouver, we headed to Vancouver Island for three nights while our hosts had their last few days of work and school before their Christmas break. This post is about one of the tourist attractions we visited: Victoria Bug Zoo. I'll