In October we had my cousin from Denmark come visit us for a couple days. She was on vacation seeing Seattle, then us and then onto New York. We were able to show her Vancouver one day and walked for hours on end all over the city making sure she saw all that was worth seeing. We got lucky with some good weather that day. The next day I took her to see some local views where she could see the mountains of BC. We did that in the rain but it made it a true BC experience. It was a good to see her again even though it was so quick.
In the middle of October Chris' parents came to visit us. They came for Chris' birthday where he got spoiled with a Canucks Jersey, Fantuz' name and number on his Roughriders jersey and a Tassimo coffee maker. Oh and I can't forget the various princess gear that Ryan and Cheryl showed up with for him when we had cake that night. Chris' parents spent the week while we were working seeing the Williamson's and shopping down in the States. Then they came back Thursday and Chris and his dad went to a Canucks game while his mom and I stayed home and ate pizza and watched Grey's Anatomy. We decided to drive up to Whistler on the Sunday before they left because they had never seen it before. We walked around the village and even checked out the bobsled run, even though no bobsleds were practicing it was kind of neat to see. The rest of our time we spent just relaxing.
In between working I found time to take some more pictures of Josiah for Josh and Cassie. She wanted some of him with a naked bum so we went for it, he peed a few times, spraying the wall and the floor but I think we got some good shots. I also took some family pictures for Mike and Sarah for Carter's one year photos. He wasn't too sure of me taking pictures but we still got some cute ones. What parents do to make their kids laugh, that's all I'll say about that...
Last weekend Chris found a new activity that he likes to do, snowshoeing. He went hiking with some guys he knows from his school and they had to snowshoe for most of it. He had a blast and now this has made him want to buy expensive gear to do it more (which I'm not such a big fan of). We also headed down to Seattle last weekend to see the Seahawks actually win a game against the Baltimore Ravens. After about an hour of looking for free parking we finally found some and just made it to the game after kickoff. We had pretty good seats and were lucky it didn't rain because we weren't under the covered area. The game was pretty good too so it was worth the trip. We stayed the night just north of Seattle in Lynnwood, had some delicious Red Robin for supper and then shopped for some school clothes at the outlet malls before we headed home on Monday.
Now with only a month until Christmas break I'm sure it will fly by and we will be enjoying our break soon enough. Can't wait!
