July 2017 archive

Vacation Starts!

Our original plan was to leave on Sunday morning but someone was keen to start the vacation and so the countdown started early Saturday morning! The boys went to pick up the trailer while the girls stayed home – Caroline had just returned from SOAR (Girl Guides camp) in Smithers BC and she needed to …

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Easter Break

A 4-day long weekend for us and what do we do? Stay home on Saturday morning with 4 laptops ready to book a campsite at Yosemite. I was determined to get a spot at Yosemite and was not interested in going away. Fortunately for us my strategy paid off and we were able to get …

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Spring Break – Ski vacation

I guess Caroline won’t be submitting her write-up for this blog post, so I’ll add it just to maintain the chronological order of trips. During spring break, we spent a week at Silverstar. We had an awesome ski and stay package. Our biggest expense for the trip was the ski lessons for the kids. Fortunately …

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Express-trip to London and Bordeaux

It’s July, I better post this quickly   In February, we took a short trip to Europe to visit Andy, Brandi, and the kids. The original plan was to spend a few days in London and then off to their house which is 2 hours outside of London by rail. A few weeks before our …

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