Washington

Mount Baker revisited

We woke up yesterday morning, and made another last minute decision: we were going to Mount Baker. It's been a little bit less than a year since we've been there, and the weather was nice so we decided to head out there. Last time it started snowing, so we were unable to see how far you could actually drive up. We made it to up the ski area but that was it. This year we first stopped at the Visitor Center and the park ranger told us that we definitely needed to go to Artist Point. On clear days there are stunning vistas of some of the most breathtaking scenery in northwest Washington. There's...

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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...

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Olympic National Park

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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