Recent Excursions

This Saturday my good friend Pam Vandermeer got married and has now taken the name "Vandop". She looked absolutely beautiful!! I was quite impressed, and proud, and excited and all around joyful. It was good to see some friends from school again and a bunch of the teachers. Well, that pretty much covers that.


On Sunday I got to sleep in! I woke up at 5:30 and Alicia VanHuizen dropped me off in Squamish on her way to Whistler so I could visit Stewart. We decided to hike the Chief. I'm pretty much in the worst shape I have ever been in my life. I made Stewart stop every 100 m or so because I was exhausted. He brought these huge packs with all this food in them and it was absolutely ridiculous, but absolutely so much fun. Once we got to the first peak I put my stuff down and promptly fell asleep for an hour or so. It was wonderful. He suggested venturing on to the other peaks once or twice but I said no. One was definitely more than enough. The view was magnificent and the weather was quite excellent. So, Stewart and I hung out on the Chief until about 4:30 or 5 and then we came down and rehydrated some chicken and rice that he'd dehydrated. It tasted pretty good, surprisingly. Then Alicia came back and brought me and Stewart home to Surrey.
On Monday I went for a run in the morning and my sister came over with her kids. I am going to miss them so much. I bent down to give Zachary a hug and he ran and jumped into my arms and wrapped his little arms around my neck and his little legs around me waist and squeezed with all his might... oh man I'm going to miss that. At around 2:00 Stewart and I went to White Rock. We just walked down the beach and then went to Tynehead for a bit and I brought him home. He has some pictures that he is supposed to be sending me so I'll throw those on here when he does.