The weather has been way too warm the last couple of days. It's currently midnight and it still is 25C outside. When we arrived home at 6:30, the temperature was still 36C. I do enjoy warm weather, but I didn't sign up for Vegas temperatures when I moved to Vancouver. The dog is panting so much I had to get a wet towel to cover him up, now he won't go anywhere without his wet towel...
This weekend was really cool (but warm...), we got some new visitors over, so we got back to doing touristy things. On Saturday we did the mandatory Whistler trip which was nice, but no bears and the biathlon shooting...
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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...
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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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Last weekend, Kris' sister and her boyfriend were here to visit us.
On Saturday we did some tourist things: We went to Granville Island, which is always nice because they have amazing pork sausage over there:). Besides that we also went too Gastown and we've visited an outlet center not too far from Vancouver. To end a sunny day, we drove to Buntzen Lake (Where Grizzly and I had our first outdoor "swim". I would love to say that it was nice, but walking around in meltwater is just a tiny little bit too cold for my feet.)
On Sunday the weather was so nice that we decided to go to Lighthouse Park...
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If I have to call out one thing I became addicted to since we moved to Vancouver, it's gotta be Hockey. I've never been much of a sportsfan, but there is something about hockey which attracts me (and of course working on the best NHL game requires one to keep up to date and go out to research :) ).
The Vancouver Canucks are doing great in the playoffs at this moment (knock on wood), they are currently 2-1 ahead in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Chicago Blackhawks. Go Canucks Go! On to the Stanley Cup :)
Here are various pictures of hockey matches I've been to in the last...
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We had a bit of a lazy Sunday, which created some time for me to do some photo filtering/processing. We had an early start due to a dog incident... (just spent 100$ on new blinds so we wouldn't be woken up by the light anymore...), so we headed out for a 10K hike around Buntzen Lake, which is about 2-3km from our home and afterward we went for lunch at our favorite Sushi Place, where we treated ourselves to Spicy Tuna Sashimi, Spicy salmon sashimi, an "awesome roll" (it was actually very good, but that's just the name) and Ebi Gyoza, price: 28$(+-18EUR) (including drinks). Can't beat that price...
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Here are some more pictures from our trip to Ucluelet - Tofino - Pacific Rim National Park on Vancouver Island.
Totem Pole on the Pacific Rim
Boardwalk through the rainforest, Pacific Rim National Park"
Ucluelet Welcome Sign
Pacific Rim Motel Bear Carving
Boardwalk, Pacific Rim National Park
Western Skunk Cabbage (What a name...)
Mussels, Pacific Rim National Park
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It has been ages since we wrote something on the blog... Sorry about this!
We spend our Easter Weekend on Vancouver Island.
We left early on Friday morning to catch the ferry to Nanaimo. It took us some preparations to get everything ready especially with the dog, but we've made it in time!
It was a three hour drive northwest across Vancouver Island, from Nanaimo to Tofino along Highway 4.
River along Pacific Rim Hwy (Hwy 4) to Tofino
It is a popular tourist destination. It attracts surfers, nature lovers, campers, whale watchers, fishermen, or anyone just looking to be close to nature....
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Sorry far the lack of updates over the past week, but we've been kind of busy move to our new home. I'm sure Ine will do a more extensive blog post with all the news and maybe we'll take some better pictures of our new place once we get all of the boxes out of the way, so I'll have to leave you with your curiosity for now.
Instead I'll just post a picture I took some days ago in out hometown, Port Moody, at Inlet Park.
Port Moody Sunset
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