We left on a Friday after work, our first stop was Leavenworth.
Leavenworth is a charming little town in Chelan County, Washington. What makes this city special you wonder? Well, the entire town center is modelled on a Bavarian village. They even have a nutcracker Museum. While we were visiting, the town was celebrating Oktoberfest. The funny thing is that it's actually claimed to be one of the most attended in the world outside Munich, Germany. Not sure if that's true though so don't quote me on it.
I know it sounds cheesy, but we actually quite liked it. We'll definitely be back, we really...
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Hi everyone
We just came back from a road trip. We managed to drive 7550 kilometers in 3 weeks, so we covered quite a bit of ground.
Just like last year, we decided to include Yellowstone. I know, it's the 3rd time in four years we've been to Yellowstone, but it's still my favorite place to go. The abundance of wildlife in combination with the scenery makes it so special.
Unlike other years, we stayed overnight in the park. We were able to book a cabin in the Mammoth Hot Springs area. Something that was really neat, was the fact that we didn't have cell phone reception, internet, radio, television,...
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Finally! We've waited almost four months to go on this road trip. For some reason we were really, really looking forward to it!
We started driving Thursday evening, direction Kamloops. We booked the Accent Inns for the night. Quite nice actually, pleasant memories! It's the same hotel chain we stayed at (for 3 weeks) when we first arrived in Vancouver. Funny how all those hotels have the exact same interior.
Friday, early morning (way too early, but for a good cause) we headed in the direction of Jasper. We could have easily made the decision to go straight to Banff, but we wanted to drive along...
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The weather has cooled down a bit (quite a bit actually, from 40C to 23C) during the last couple of days, which makes life a bit more enjoyable for Belgians :) Even the deer were seeking shade and didn't seem to bother if you approached them. This picture is not cropped and my zoom lens was not even zoomed in to the max (the EXIF says 135mm).
A deer enjoying the shade near our house in Port Moody
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Sorry for the recent lack of updates but we had some busy weeks and more coming up. My parents came over to visit us for 3 weeks (too short) and we had a great time wine tasting, doing hikes, ...
Here is a picture of my lovely mother in Vancouver:
My mother in Vancouver
We also did a short day trip to Whistler where we visited the Olympic skijump and biathlon area. At the Biathlon shooting range you could try out a biathlon rifle and shoot at the targets. Ine beat me with a perfect 5/5 score against my less perfect 4/5. I had a bad bullet... On our way we saw 2 bears (see previous post for picture)....
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A couple of pictures for you to enjoy! The bear picture was taken on Sunday, the other ones are a little bit older (you can tell because there is still snow on the mountains).
Credits go to Kris of course:).
A black bear having an afternoon snack in Whistler, BC.
Evolution of flight
Sea lions posing in front of Mt. Baker.
Samjohn Light in Burrard Inlet.
Mt. Seymour Snowboarding
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Like I've told you before, my parents made it for Christmas.
They were stuck in Toronto for 24 hours, but luckily they were able to catch the first flight, on Tuesday morning, to Vancouver.
As you can expect, they were very tired, but they had to keep going until the evening because otherwise they would give in to their jet lag. I decided to take them out to visit some furniture shops because if we wanted to enjoy our Christmas dinner, we needed some dinning chairs.
On the 24th we prepared our Christmas dinner and of course ate it. After dinner we went for an evening/Christmas Eve walk. Kris...
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Our Saturday mission: Find clothes for the red carpet event. We succeeded and as a reward we went to the Vancouver Aquarium. But first things first.
So we went to Metrotown on Saturday and we both didn't know what to get (but you already knew that). Surprise, Surprise, Kris talked me in to buying a cocktail dress. So I've bought a black cocktail dress. Perfect match with my new shoes.
Kris decided to wear a black suit, and he bought himself a nice looking shirt, tie and belt.
Pictures will follow on Friday (because then we have to go to the event).
So after too many hours of shopping we decided...
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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...
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Today we took the Sea to Sky Highway to Whistler. Except for the Icefield Parkway, I think one of the most beautiful roads I've ever drove on.
A lot of construction works along the road (because of the winter Olympics in 2010), but still a nice scenic drive.
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