Ahhh... Spring Break...Mike takes Cyndi to Utah

I love waterfalls. We had to stop. I had an awesome picture named "layin' pipe" but somehow I lost it. Somebody built the most incredible water system that stretched across this waterfall. anyway...yadda yadda. Mike drove alot this day. Thanks Mike. He also got alot of new clothes.

After a teacher-reprieve week of lounging and lounging, Mike packed me in the car and we went to Utah! We needed T shirts and pants...what better place to find them than Park City. We stayed in a beautiful old hotel with a great view...

I'll give ya somethin' to cheer about...

and here marks the last eve of my adventure in cheerleading. ra ra. these lovely ladies may now rest their pompoms for the season. i had a great time learning about something new but mostly i made a great new friend out of the deal. Cathy you're amazing!

Nothing like being stuck in the snow with your family!

Here we are stuck on the subway...so much snow a tree fell over the tracks...hmmm? As you can see, my dad isn't sure what's going on either.

Here we are stuck in a snow bank in front of the Canucks game...

Here we are stuck in the driveway in the motorhome....hmmm? (Actually it was parked for the winter!)

And here I am stuck inside with Grams!! She obviously is tired of seeing the snow too!

Plains, trains, ferries and Greyhound part II.

Vancouver here we come...plane, train, ferry, greyhound, taxi, van, SUV, skytrain with a tree. The snow's not stoppin' us!

It Doesn't snow here...3 feet later! We started off the journey for the holiday flying into a storm filled Seattle. No fish market that day. A van and an SUV ride later, we crossed the border with a carload of strangers (thanks Dawn and Vince) willing to give us a ride and landed in Vancouver. We waited until 3am for the parents to arrive from the same, only now snowier, trek. They actually had to push a van up a highway at one point. Yep, they are canadian.

THE EMPRESS

Victoria, British Columbia is a place to behold. The Queen happened to be busy in England that day, but Mike and I enjoyed our stay at the Empress nonetheless. We had tea and crumpets and those mini cucumber sandwhiches. We both got new shoes, shined them with our shoe mitts and headed off in more snow. On the Greyhound, up island to Qualicom Beach (no beach just snow) we arrived a little late for christmas eve dinner.


HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT

The Victoria harbour and the Parliament building. I am happy here because I just got new shoes. I also love lights, boats, Canada, and harbours. Not harbors though. Victoria is about a two hour ferry ride from Vancouver or Seattle. The ferry ride is part of the fun. You can see whales, seals, fish and water. We only saw water.

THE MOTORHOME

And for the next adventure, the motorhome. I think you call them RV's in the U.S. Although we enjoyed it parked, we vowed to steal it for an island tour during the summer. We had a nice visit with Auntie Norma, Gordon and Grams...thanks for letting us bunk-in!

DA CANUCKS

Although the city was completely shut down and snowed in, the Canucks game went on. Jeff met his "guy" and managed 8 somewhat legal tickets. 30,000 strong with fist fulls of Molson's, hockey was played.

Greetings for the Season. Where's the snow?

Getting ready for the Holidays.

Helen, the Snowflakes in the window are still beautiful!

Wreaths o' plenty of ribbon

Grams tree is as timeless as ever...even at 50 years old!

18 feet and no falls. I can breathe again.

Done decorating and off to Vancouver we went. We were very excited to see everyone out west

Chickens and Great Fall Days

It's the great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

Chicken Coop...after eyeing the one at the pumpkin patch, we came home to create our own.

The Green Belt Bike-a-thon

Fall is beautiful around here. We've been on the bikes, the Green Belt is awesome...30 miles of paved trail along the river. The pumpkins are out in full force and Mike has cleaned out the chicken coop for Spring. Love to all and miss you bunches- MC

This is for Ethan! We love the ZOO!

Zoo Boise Rocks!

The Giraffes are beautiful . We spent a glorious Saturday morning at Zoo Boise with our freinds Emily and Jay and their two awesome kids Nickolay and Alexi. They have cool names. We really missed our buddy Ethan Lien and thought of him the entire time (of course we missed Emma and Eliott too.)











Have you ever
heard of a bear sloth?
They have awesome
feet.

I love these little penguins

We are really cracking up. Get it... Love to all. M and C