Spokane and Vancouver

Today Noah and I talked about some of the highlights of our trip:

• Going through the hedge maze at the botanic garden in Vancouver
• Spending time with Grandpa and Loree
• Ate yummy Spruce Bud flavor ice cream and other flavors with Aaron, Ezra, and big Aviva
• Playing with Aaron and Sara's kids including a snap circuit kit
• Picking buckets of strawberries from the farm near Aaron and Sara's house
• Playing at the children's garden that's part of UBC, with Ezra, Asher, and big Aviva
• Working on the marble run project with Grandpa
• Seeing the laughing sculptures around Stanley Park in Vancouver
• Learning to skip rocks with Grandpa
• Play on a few beaches in Vancouver and finding purple shells, clams, crabs, crab legs, driftwood, and cool rocks
• Playing on the treadmills at the gym 
• Going to something like 10 new playgrounds
• Eating lunch in the Priority Lounge at the Vancouver airport
• Driving in a brand new car with only 13 kilometers that was so bright blue and still had stickers all over the windows and door handles
• Seeing the beautiful views from the 17th floor of the bay and fjord and the sunsets (which were unfortunately at 9:30 pm)
• Playing foosball with Anya and Mika and Bubbe
• Getting dimsum with August, Tanner, aunts/uncles/cousins, and then going to the splash pad fountain thing with a carousel
• Spending time with lots of cousins and lots of family, like Joanna, Steve, Anya, Mika, Daniel, Sherra, Dizzy, Ozzie, Nana, Papa, Bubbe, Grandma, August, Tanner, Sue, Stan (11 of whom were in our house, with the 4 of us)
• Canoeing from our house on Liberty Lake and Noah was helping steer and row
• Going fishing from the dock of our house and also from the beach nearby
• Taking a bubbly bath in the huge bathtub upstairs - 3 kids together
• Eating the sticky toffee pudding cake for Uncle Steve's birthday, and eating it outside on the porch
• Science museum with cousins
• Seeing the waterfall in Spokane and watching it with Cousins Anya and Mika
• Sleeping in the 4 story bunk bed
• Throwing petals at the wedding
• Eating a lot of good food at the wedding
• Playing with Aunt August's cool dice including a 20-sided one
• Learning and playing Prodigy, a math game

Strawberry picking w/Aaron, Sara, and family

Grandpa and Loree working on constructing some
weird animal w/Aviva

    

  

Grandpa taught Noah how to skip rocks

Arrow is pointing to their building

Van Dusen Botanic Garden had a hedge maze

Grandpa and Noah working on marble run

exiting the hedge maze

Asher, Noah, big Aviva eating Spruce Bud ice cream

Spokane: 

At rehearsal

At wedding

At the dock at our house