Chaotic update
I haven’t gotten around updating the blog lately due to some very busy weeks and the launch of new versions and remakes of some of my all time favorite games: Monkey Island and Battlefield 
Tonight, I forced myself not to play and to upload some pictures to the blog. It’s a bit of a chaotic post of unrelated events, but well..
Thursday after work we met up with a friend of ours in downtown Vancouver, had a lovely walk on the seawall, ate some great takeaway Shawarma (it took me some time to actually figure out that it was Shoarma…) on the beach and finished it all of with a Marble Slab ice cream (Best ice cream ever).
English Bay in Downtown Vancouver
Last weekend we decided to due a quick day trip to Seattle. The morning started out great with some deer standing near our house (it seems to be deer season, we’ve seen about 10 of them around our house in one week), drove over to Seattle and did a quick visit to the city. We only stayed in Seattle for 2 hours and decided to drive to Bellevue where we saw Bill Gates’ house and ended the day with a great fondue menu at The Melting Pot.
Mount Rainier rising up behind the Seattle Thunderbirds’ home, Qwest field.
Below are some more pictures of when my parents where visiting and we visited Cypress Mountain. It was strange to see the Vancouver 2010 Olympic half pipe in summer. This winter, we’ll be more or less at the exact same spot as we got tickets for the woman’s halfpipe event.
My parents, Ine and Grizzly posing in front of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Halfpipe on Cypress Mountain.
My father on the Cypress mountain viewpoint overlooking the lower mainland and the Georgia Straight.
In a few days we’ll have some new visitors, so we definitely have more to look forward to!
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7 Comments
21 July 09 at 9:28am
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I like the picture of the English Bay. Seems like the weather is really nice over there? Here, on the other hand, we are having rainy Gentse Fieste. Snif.
21 July 09 at 8:24pm
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English Bay really is a wonderful place, although we only recently discovered that spot (as in a week ago). The weather has been amazing for about 2 months:) They expect highs of 31 degrees this week. It's nice!
26 July 09 at 11:18am
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Goedemorgen Vancouver, hier Gent. We tellen de laatste uren van de Gensche Fiesten af. Maar denken ook veel aan jullie weerzien met je ouders en broer Jeroen. Allemaal goed aangekomen? Hoe was het weerzien? Groetjes en de amuseleute!
27 July 09 at 5:44pm
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Dag Chris en Carine. Alles goed hier! Mama en papa zijn deze ochtend vertrokken richting Banff en Jasper. We hebben al veel leuke dingen gedaan, en het was een goed weerzien! Jammer dat we de feesten moeten missen wel:) Heb gehoord dat het geregend heeft, maar hopelijk hebben jullie er toch kunnen van genieten! Vele groetjes vanuit het veeeeeeeeeel te warme Vancouver:)
31 July 09 at 4:58pm
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Ze kennen daar toch ook alleen maar uitersten eh, oftwel 5m sneeuw oftwel 1000 graden. Ist daar ooit normaal weer? :-)
31 July 09 at 6:15pm
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Nee:) Dees is echt wel uitzonderlijk ze... Ze hebben de warmste temperaturen (in Vancouver) gemeten. Tis echt wel afzien!
31 July 09 at 8:31pm
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jaja, en die sneeuw was ook al uitzonderlijk. kzou bijna beginnen denken dat jullie der voor wat tussenzitten :p