Obama day

Tuesday Jan 20 was a historic day, as everybody knows....I was fortunate to start work at 10am, which meant I got to watch Obama get sworn in live at 9am (pacific time). Later that day, I decided i would take a walk on my lunch hour and take some photos to commemorate what the day looked like around me and to capture so beauty on this historic day. It's been cold and frosty around here as of late. We got a break in the fog on Tuesday, and the bright blue sky broke through. I like how you can see the frosty tips on the tree branches
Some people with a little kid were feeding the ducks...there were a million of them around, feeding so nice and calm...until the crazy old man walked by and didn't put his yappy dog on a leach like he was supposed to....i just caught part of the chaotic scene as the ducks took off in a panic!!

I love frost. it's so beautiful! i love it on trees, grass and leaves! As I was crouched down, taking all sorts of different shots of frosty things, the same crazy old man mentioned above (with the yappy dog) walked by and was like "surely there can't be anything to see down there!" Well you're wrong old man, there's plenty of beauty down here on the ground. Have a look see at some of my favorite shots.

See! was i right, or was i right? plenty of beauty to be seen! So in your face old man!! (and keep your freaking dog on a leash!!!)

Then i saw some cool red berries...they added a nice splash of colour to the landscape!

and again, more frost! yay frost!

So there you have it...a few photos to capture the beauty i saw, on that historic January day!

weekend at Beachwood

So as part of my birthday present, last weekend Pammer and I went to down to Beachwood (in Washington, where her family often takes their trailer to camp in the summer) for a fun relaxing weekend, cuz there are cabins on site that you can rent for super duper cheap in the winter!! We did some serious relaxing on Saturday (ie - i stayed in my pj's for most of the day) and on Sunday, we went and did some serious shopping at the outlet mall.
This is an overview of what our weekend consisted of: Carcassonne. We played many many games of Carcassonne....that's what we did most of Saturday. Well, you can throw a few games of skip-bo and one game of cribbage in there too...lol
We bought the cheapest bottle of wine we could find...it was $3.99...and it was actually pretty good, as we enjoyed it out of classy plastic glasses...lol

And on mid-Saturday afternoon, we finally ventured outside for some fresh air, and went down to the ocean. Problem was, it was really really foggy and cold, so we didn't stay too long...just long enough to take a few photos. It wasn't dark out (it was only 4:30pm), though you'd never know from these first 2 pics...this is just what the flash did, and i kinda liked the look

time went by wayyyyy too quickly and before i knew it, it was Sunday night and i was home getting ready for work again....but it was a fun weekend away and i think it's time to get planning on another holiday!

Let me CAP your SUSPENSE...

So as part of my birthday present, Pammer arranged for a fun outting for us, with Theresa and Josh. I didn't know where we were going until we were in the car driving there....and last Sunday we went to the Capilano Suspension Bridge! I had never been there before and have been wanting to go, so i was super excited when i found out where we were going!

You can't really see us too well in this photo because there were raindrops on the giant ball thingy, but i still liked this picture enough to post it...lol

So Josh decided that he was not going to smile nicely in many of our photos that day

It wasn't raining, but it was grey and foggy...tricky light for shooting photos without a tripod but still got a few good scenery shots

Here's Pammer on the bridge

And me and T-dog hugging a giant tree

Josh and I spent some time as inquisitive youngsters ....

Here are some lovely ladies, with some nice scenery too

I made friends with the Bear Mountie

and group photo with said Mountie (with Josh still up to his antics)

Yay for capilano adventures! We had a great time and I would definitely recommend that you check this place out if you have a chance...but take a coupon, it's kinda pricy....

annual flooding

This post is slightly overdue....but i'm posting it none the less!! These pics were taken about a week ago and things have mostly remedied themselves, but you can read about it anyway!!

All the snow was very pretty...and i liked to admire it either on foot, or through my window. It was very peaceful and quiet with the blanket of white on everything...i took these first couple of pics from my bedroom window at around midnight one night...i knew the melt was coming...and melt it did, as you will see as you read on!!

Last year, we got snow. Then we got rain. Then we got floods. This year was the same. Was I prepared? Nope! So after the parking lot at work started to fill up with water, some colleagues and I jetted out on our lunch break and went shopping for rain boots. I didn't like what they had to offer in the 'adult' section, so i ended up getting kids boots!! Aren't they fun and colourful??!?!!

At work, out back behind our classy trailer, runs the Nicomekl River. It flooded its banks and the water was lapping up against the back of our building. That meant the ducks would cruise by in close proximity

This pic was actually taken on day 2 of flooding, after the waters had recided a bit (i didn't have my camera at work on the first day...but the water would have been off the left side of the picture)

And for some reason, the sky seems to do cool things with wierd weather...so

here are some pics of the amazing sky

the big 3-0

Yesterday was my birthday. I turned 30. That's kindof a big birthday. I decided a while ago that the appropriate thing to do was to throw myself a party! We had food, we had drink, we had...a lot of snow. The west coast has been the recipiant of snow storm after snow storm this holiday season. This was the view from my bedroom window when i woke up. Beautiful, yes. Good driving conditions? No. But that was ok...many of my friends from Abbotsford still came over for a fun evening, and I now have a whole bunch of reasons to go to Vancouver and have "belated birthday dinners" with others!!!

Check out my sweet crown! it says "princess for a day" lol!! I got the giant martini glass with the dolphins on it...sweet....

Good times with friends!!! This is my friend Courtney. We both used to be bakers at Afterthoughts Restaurant. We can make amazing cheesecake!

Layla, Kristi and Deanna

Greg (hubby to Deanna) and Mike (hubby to Courtney)

Theresa, Chad and Theresa

Kim and her Dutchman Jaco

YAY cake! and by cake, I mean DQ ice cream cake with an awesome Canucks logo!!!!!

We forgot to get candles for the cake, so shoved this big sucker into the frozen cake as best we could and i had to blow it out fast before it fell over...that's why i only have one candle...lol

So, I'm officially in the 30s. So far, it's not so bad!