Fright Night and the Transcanadian Trail

Today was a sunny day in Port Moody. Since we could only go to Fright Night at 6pm we decided to take a walk. There is a trail that starts not far from our apartment. It’s a rather short one, but definitely worth doing.

It’s a trail along the the bay and the path you are walking on, is a wooden path, so you feel like you are walking in the “Hoge Venen” (at least I felt like that:))

We were standing on some kind of platform and watching the shoreline and then suddenly somebody said: look there are some bear paws next to the water. So since it was still low water it meant that the bear had probably visited this spot early this morning (the footprint wasn’t washed away and it’s high water around 4pm).

If you click on the pictures you will be able to see them a little bit bigger and you will be able to see the paw. On the second picture you can find the paw in the shadow of the pole. Just underneath the small rock.

My dad gave me his Kowa (spotting optics) before we left Belgium, and now I can definitely start using it (it’s placed in front of our window on Kris his tripod). I used it to watch the bay and the boats who entered the harbor. Now I can use it for wildlife watching, because we can see the spot, where the bear paws were, from our apartment. So who knows I’ll spot one before they go into hibernation.

OK enough bear talk for now, I don’t want to bore you guys with my bear stories all the time, so let’s start with our stories of Fright Night.

Like I told you before, I hate haunted mansions and Kris hates roller coasters. So not a good combination to go to a theme park where they have a fright night… But well, we both got over it (or at least I did;)).

It wasn’t the nicest theme park we have visited, but we had a really nice evening. There were 4 haunted houses, which were cool. We also did a maze and according to me that was the funniest thing of the evening. Although, I am forgetting one thing, Kris and me (yes Kris too) went in the music express and I have to say it goes much faster than I can remember (Kris hates fast rides). It’s the same ride as the “rups” in Belgium.

We saw something that is definitely an attraction for David. David you should really do this, it’s pretty extreme but really really cool. (not that we did it, because it was a little bit too scary for us:)). It is probably difficult to see what kind of attraction it is on the picture, so I’ll try to explain. Designed like a giant airplane propeller, the Revelation holds two to four people in the seats at each end of its 48m arm. You take off quickly spinning up to 100 kph and experience some pretty intense “G” forces.

We had a really nice weekend, but back to reality now:).
Plans for next week:
Kris has to go to work
I’m going to attend some sport classes
And I’m a volunteer for the Halloween trick or treat on Friday (something that is organized in the community we live in). I still have to figure out what I have to do, but more about that later.

Below some more pictures of the theme park. Credits go to Kris of course.