Oh Canada!

What to do on a 4 day weekend?

Veterans Day on Thursday and the kids had Friday off also. Gary and I were trying to figure out. We wanted to go some where close and where we could do something fun and different.  We first thought of going to Victoria BC. That is a great place. But this time of year most everything to do is closed. I would love to just do shopping. But we decided the boys would go crazy.

At the last minute I was able to get us a great room at one of our time shares in Whistler Canada.

A little farther away. But we were lucky that there was no traffic at the border. It only took us 5 hours to get there. We have never been there and the kids were excited to go. So off we went! 

Another stamp in the Passport!

Last year the Winter Olympics were held here. We went and walked around the center village area. Very quaint shopping center. Alot of stores closed right now. But you can tell that it was a happening place last winter.

They were having a sale at some of the stores for Veterans Day. We found a very cool coat for Vincent. Andrew also found something he wanted. He found a very cute yellow ski hat that covers your whole face and had eye cutouts and a smiley face on it. He so wanted it. But it was was 50 bucks. No Way. So Andrew had a long tantrum. Just when you think they have grown out of that stage. I guess we all throw tantrums, even today.

 

The mountains behind us were snow capped with fresh snow. When we arrived it was snowing but only stuck on the upper elevations. I would love to come back and see it in the middle of Winter and Summer!

A Rare Moment...The boys having fun with each other...No fighting!  Love it

My battery was going dead. Wished I had a longer video of the boys swinging together. I love this...:-)

Our next adventure in the Whistler mountains.

I am very glad we did not run into any bears.  :-)

We went to the look out spot to check it out, cool!

Can we do it?  Well, we pre paid so we better!

 

Looking good in his new jacket!

It looks made for him.

Vincent got elected to go first.

I wanted to do the photos first and get it all set up.

Yeah Vincent!

Good job. I did hear some screams from him. :-)

I love this shot of him! 

Being pulled up and feeling free!

 Gary was up next.

I am so proud of him. He went with his gut feeling and decided not to make the jump.

This is a huge step for Gary. I love him, and want to keep him in one handsome piece.

Really no pressure from me. Who knows what weird thing could happen to him. I have seen it before.

But it is not going to stop me!  :-)

We paid and I am going. http://www.whistlerbungee.com/home.php

It really is scary. But you go up to the edge and wow it is really high up. 130 feet you drop.  Seems much higher!  

I will post my video on the next post. Will not work on this one. :-(

I let out a scream the whole way down. It is the strangest feeling to step off something and never reach the bottom of the step. It is like a dream where you never land. You try and get your balance the whole time.

Crazy!

The hardest is just stepping off. Some body asked "What were you thinking?" I really did not try and think of anything. I have a talent of clearing my mind very easily.Oh be quiet....ha ha...I know what you are thinking...:-)

 I think that was Gary's problem...he thinks too much.  But I am glad. :-)

A great feeling to have done it and then they pull you up. Nice!

Andrew was a good sport.

He had fun watching all of us crazy people. He could have gone, but I would never pressure him to do this.

Lucky Vincent got to go twice! 

Good job Vincent! He did not scream the second time.

We went back to our condo and the power was out. They were doing some construction and something went wrong. We were not confident that it was coming back on. So we got to thinking......Andrew had a soccer game Saturday morning. If we left now to go home we could make it back by bed time. That sounded pretty good compared to sleeping in a cold dark room.

So off we went.

What a beautiful drive home. I love all the lush trees and mountains.

It got dark too soon...darn.

Next time I will be prepared to stop and take lots of photos along the way.

No problems going home. Nice to be in our own beds!

It was a fun short trip.

Routson Visit & Hanging Out

My Sister Cindy came for a quick visit. I love it when she does this. Steve is a frequent visitor to our house for work. But this time Cindy came to meet him and then work with him on the way home.

Cindy and Steve were so nice to go to Vincents soccer game.  I think they were hoping for rain so they would not have to go.  Ha ha....No, I think they enjoyed it. The game was at Sammamish High School. I think Cindy enjoyed going back to the football field where she used to cheer at.

 Cool Vincent- Isn't he handsome!

 Hi Cindy!
The men are pretending they do not know me. Steve enjoyed listening to all the parents comments and cheering of the team. Gary has learned to block it all out and just watch the game.

 Too bad they did not win.

I enjoyed the cool clouds and pretty trees and a little bit of sunshine. 

Simple things make me happy :-)

Cindy and I also enjoyed watching some instructional lessons about digital scrapbooking.

I hope one day soon I will have time to do this. I really think it looks cool!

Come again soon Cindy!
Or anyone else!  I love company!

Halloween and the Sounders!

The Sounders playoff game landed on Halloween.

So what are you to do? 

Dress up for the game of course.

Well alot of us did. I went as a Jelly Fish (might as well face your demons) and Andrew went as a Skeleton. Vincent and Gary went as Sounders Fans..very original....they were not alone.

We saw lots of creative costumes and  they had a small Spook House to go thru before the game.

 Andrew took this photo.  I love how the whole crowd is so involved. In the beginning we all hold up our scarves. It looks way cool! 

 The game was against LA Galaxy.  It was fun to see Beckham and Donovan up close. Not too bad to look at either. I was glad they had the long sleeves on today. Covered up the tattoos. :-(

 We were able to get the front row disabled seats again. Vincent had some friends come to the game also CC and Jasmine.  Very nice girls. During half time we were able to get the people next to us to scoot down so Gary and I could sit in the front row also. For a while we only had 4 seats and we would trade off.

 Vincent had the best seat in the house! 

 Scary Andrew! The makeup worked much better for him...he could eat and talk better than his Mummy costume. Bummers....I really liked the Mummy one best.

 Vincent met up with some more friends at the game! A good bunch of kids...I like them all!

Jasmine-Ty-Connor-CC-Kallen

Vincent

 After the game we went to my friends house in Magnolia Seattle for some Trick or Treating. It is and older area of Seattle with very cool houses. The neighbors deck the houses all out for Halloween. Movies, spook alleys, smoke machines....guys running around with Chainsaws running...the blades are taken off don't worry.

I had the teenagers take Andrew around to a few houses. I did hear he got quite scarred a few times. But the kids helped him out. Thank you guys....I think...:-)

 My Jelly Fish costume was a hit...at least I thought so. I got lots of good comments from it all night long. I had put glow sticks into parts of the tentacles so it looked cool at night. I will have to save this for next year. Even Gary ended up liking it. He did not think it looked like a Jelly fish at first.

Some of the decorations at my friends house. Great job Brandon and Sue!  Loved it!

Best part it did not rain till the very end of the night! Yeah! I love it when that happens! 

Pre Halloween Parties!!!

The house is ready!

  I love the Cob-web look.  All that is was missing was a huge spider...if only I had found a huge one I could have put it on the roof.  Next year maybe....

 Vincent helped me put up the webs...he was my roof man...Cell phone service works well up there.  :-)

 He looks so happy...typical teenager stare I get often....

 Guess Who?

We went to a ward party and nobody knew who was under the Mummy makeup....Surprise it's Andrew!

 He was an Awesome Mummy! 

I loved his face! 

 Unfortunately he did not like the feel of the face stuff I put on. It got real stiff and he could not move his mouth that great. He came home hungry because he could not eat.  :-) So on to plan B for Halloween night.

 Gary dressed up as a cool teenager's Dad!

 An icon costume for 2010...the Chilean Miners that were rescued this month. I watched alot of it live on TV and the Internet. It was an amazing story...I am sure it will go down in History. A great costume for boys who didn't want to dress up too much. They could act cool in sunglasses and get dirt on there faces.

I borrowed a very cool hard hat for Vincent from a friend of mine. I had to talk them into wearing the number tags around their necks. But once I told them who wore the numbers they thought it was more cool.