Friday, December 11, 2009

English Bay!

Evan's first trip to the ocean! It was a little cold on this day, so no dipping of fingers or toes in the water occurred - we've saved that for another adventure.
It was super sunny, though!



The last time I was on this beach was to watch the Celebration of Light fireworks with my twin brother, Jeff shortly before I moved away from Vancouver. And now for some Palm trees!


We stopped in at a Starbucks Coffeehouse (of course) to get a warm beverage!

Here's a great pic of Evan and Ashley!

One last post to come on our last day in Vancouver!

Monday, December 7, 2009

Night Life on Robson Street

Evan enjoyed a very exciting night life with mommy, Ashley and friends from out west, hitting the famous Robson street shops and restaurants almost every day of our visit in Vancouver. Evan is getting ready for a night on the town here...

Here is Evan with mommy bundled up warmly for an evening walk to see the sparkle of Robson Street! (Evan shunned his new BOB Revolution jogging stroller for most of this trip preferring to be carried in his Ergo Baby Carrier). Mom's legs and back got an awesome workout this week!


Robson features some very amusing window advertising - very creative!



One place that we frequented fairly regularly was Cafe Crepe! Mom liked the spinach, chicken and feta crepe (and the Nutella and strawberry crepe for a treat). Ashley's favorite was the chicken, mushroom and egg crepe). Soooo delicious! A nice feature of this cafe was that they had a street window where food could be ordered by "walk-through" as oppsed to being seated. A great option for folks on-the-go, those with unwieldy strollers, or people who wanted to enjoy the night air!


Evan invented a new game which consisted of bending over backwards in his baby carrier and laughing his brains out. A funny, yet heart-stopping game for mom... here is our daredevil child doing his thing...



More soon on our spectacular trip out West!

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Fairmont Hotel Vancouver

We stayed at the FHV - a pretty cushy hotel for Evey's first hotel visit!
The hotel staff were very accomodating - they had a beautiful crib for the baby and brought in a fridge and microwave for us as well! They had a neat ginderbread mock-up of the hotel in the main lobby as seen here...
which lit up at night...
like the real thing!
Here is a view from our window on the tenth floor looking north towards the mountains- we stayed in Room 1000 - a very easy room # to remember indeed...

The hotel featured some terrifying gargoyles on the corners of the hotel as well as two beautiful golden retrievers, Mavis and Beau, who greeted the kiddies and were available for walks!



A jet-lagged boy pontificating...
We had a lovely dinner on Sunday night with Greg and Charlene who treated us to a fantastic meal at the Thai House on Robson Street. Uncle Jeff joined us for dinner and CUPCAKES for dessert (we got a lemon cupcake - soooo delicious!). More tomorrow on our adventures out West!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

First Day in Vancouver

For our first day in Vancouver, Evey got all dressed up!


Then we went down to look at the Christmas tree downstairs


We met Uncle Jeff and went to the Vancouver Aquarium






We saw beluga whales, giant sea turtles, starfish and jellies! What a fun day!

Friday, December 4, 2009

Evan's Trip to Vancouver

Evan, mommy and Ashley took a trip out to Vancouver from Nov 27-Dec 3rd so that mommy could attend an important conference and Evey could meet some of mommy and daddy's friends from out West. Evan did pretty well on the trip out on his first airplane ride.


Evan liked to play with the crinkly snack bags and loved taking off and landing!



It was a long 6 hour trip (we touched down in Calgary to pick up a few more passengers) and were relieved to get into our hotel so that we could nap. We tried out the new Canada Line part of the SkyTrain line running between the airport and the downtown that opened in time for the Olympics. Very cool. More tomorrow on Evan's first days in downtown Vancouver!

Monday, November 9, 2009

Sunny Fall Days


We have been very lucky to have such spectacular, sunny and warm fall days this week. We made sure to take advantage of the weather and got out for some relaxing family walks!