Family Fuller

Chuck had a conference in Vancouver from Monday to Wednesday and since we hadn’t seen him much we went with him. We got up there on Sunday night, checked into the nice, but small hotel room and I had a bit of a freak out session. You couldn’t see anything out the window, literally a brick wall and I thought “What am I going to do with two small kids for 3 days? Why did we come?”

“See Colin…bird poop, that is why you don’t go upstairs with your hands…”

After a good dinner out, where Colin ordered his own dinner and then didn’t eat any of it, I felt much better and we ended up having a great time. The weather was perfect, sunny and 75 every day we were there. Anyone who has ever been to Vancouver knows how incredibly beautiful it is - mountains at every turn, clean, huge park, fountains and waterfalls everywhere.

We pretty much spent every day in Stanley Park. The first day we walked about 30 minutes to get there all the time talking about the miniature train they have for kids to ride only to discover they were on strike and it wasn’t running. That didn’t go over well with Colin, so I told him we would walk back to the hot dog restaurant we saw…turns out that was also closed. Fortunately we found a great cafe that had a whole kids play area - exersaucer for Holden and all.

The next day we went to see the lighthouse (Colin’s favorite) - which he noticed right away was square. Then we went to the Aquarium. He love the Jellyfish (side note: he read the word “Moon” off the “Moon Jellyfish” tank…pretty cool) and the kids play area where they could play “seal doctor.” He didn’t care much for the sharks and turtles, they far out weighed him and I think he got scared.

That night we got some Korean food and went back to have a picnic in the park. We have now tried to eat Asian food in picnic style twice and let me tell you it doesn’t work well. Colin knocked over his whole drink, the noodles splatter everywhere, plus we had no forks, then a bird peed on us. However we did get some great photos:

Holden totally conked out after our walk:

The next day we had a bit of a lighthouse fiasco. We drove out to see a lighthouse west of Vancouver and the guy at the tourist office conveniently forgot to tell me that there was a strenuous 30 minute uphill walk to get to it. Somehow he must have missed the 18 pound 6 month old baby on my chest and the 3 year old standing next to me. Anyway I told Colin it was too far and he was disappointed again but he got over it once we got back to Stanley park and played in the fountains.

All in all it was a fun trip and I am glad we went.

Tomorrow I will have a few tidbits and pictures about the boys and Monday will be a little blog about our rental - so the grandparents have some idea of how we are living these days

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