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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The weather has been so nice lately that we really have been enjoying our outdoor time.
After a couple of weeks/months of consideration we've finally got ourselves a barbecue.
Check out our BBQ below:
No just kidding. I did like it though, but Kris didn't really want me to get it. Especially because it was extremely expensive (not at all because of the pink).
Anyway, this is what we actually bought.
We tried it and we have to admit it's definitely a wonderful thing! It's way faster than our indoor stove...
We weren't able to do many trip the last couple of days since I have been...
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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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I know, it has been a while, and yes, again we have been busy.
But it will get better, tourist season is going to start, so we will be obliged to do some tourist thingies (poor us:))
What have we been busy with lately?
Well first of all, Grizzly got sick last week, we still have no idea what he exactly suffered from, but he's doing a little bit better right now.
He is still on medication but we are trying to get him used to his normal food again, so let's hope that works, and that he get's better really soon.
Grizzly being sick basically meant: constantly driving to the vet, taking him out for a lot of walks...
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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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Eefje and Helena took a float plane to Victoria on Friday.
Apparently they really enjoyed it, and not only because of the flight and the views, but also because they had a "hot" pilot. (I literally wrote down what they told me).
They visited the BC Royal Museum and stayed in a wonderful hotel to get some rest after the busy days they had last week.
On Saturday Kris and I had to wake up early and take the ferry to Victoria to pick up the girls and head to Olympic National park with another ferry.
When waking up on Saturday we heard a coyote for the first time in our lives. It was amazing!!...
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Maybe a more appropriate blog topic would be: "10 photos I made in 2008 of which I'm most happy and for which I'm looking for an excuse to post them again..." but that would be too long, so let's go for the Top 10 one :)
10. Rain over Lake Annette - Jasper N.P.
9. Swiftcurrent lake, Glacier N.P.
8. Berkeley Pit, Butte
7. Venice, Las Vegas
6. Vancouver Panorama
5. Hot spring, Yellowstone N.P.
4. Peyto Lake Panorama
3. Victoria Government Parliament building
2. Dead Tree in Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone N.P.
1. The Wave, Arizona
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