"Home" For Reading Break

Last week was Reading Break so I headed back to Ontario to visit my family, ESPECIALLY my nephew Keenan who is now three months old.

Mom and I started with a walk on the beach with Rosie.

Rosie loves to play. ALL THE TIME!! She'd play in her sleep if she could, I think. Kristin and Byron brought my baby out to visit on Family Day.

We did a lot of cuddling while I was home. And some walking too! I absolutely LOVED hanging around a small town for a week. I can't wait to graduate!!

I bought Keenan a toy for his carseat. Kristin tried to tell me he doesn't like toys yet, but when I pushed the button in the store, he cracked right up. Doesn't like toys my foot! The next photo shows how relaxing reading break was for me - I had to babysit and cook!! Just kidding, I loved it!

Like I said, lots of cuddling.

After a bath!

I spent my last night in Ontario at Kristin's place. She and I went out for dinner and then the whole family (Kristin, Byron AND Keenan and I) went bowling with one of Byron's friends.

Keenan even tried bowling. He seemed to love the lights and noise.

I spent Saturday in Ontario with friends from Guelph (Amanda, Nick, Dave, Jess and Tim). We went for lunch (Chinese dumplings!) and then to the art gallery. We all realized that we don't "get" art, but think we'd be great artists if we only had some conviction that what we were producing was "art".

Tim stayed for dinner at Ann and Alain's before we drove to the airport. Alain really enjoyed dinner ;)

Fionn was there too! So were Julien and Megan (thanks for coming guys, I hope you're feeling better!).

Thanks everyone for housing me and putting up with me for a week. I look forward to heading home again soon (or maybe you can visit us?).

Sarah

New year's and recent walk

This is from a walk near Lillooet, where we stayed with friends for New Year's celebrations. it was a nice relaxing trip away from Stink-Town (Vancouver). We spent our days hiking about and our nights eating: a good combo.

We've been seeing eagles everywhere recently, they spend a lot of time near the coast in the winter. It's rare to see one this close though, so this was pretty neat.

Today we went to the Reifel Bird Sanctuary, which qualifies as homework for me, which is pretty neat. It got us out of the house for a quiet walk without Maggie (she's not allowed in). This one above is an American Wigeon (I hope).

A boring woodpecker.

The birds were pretty tame.

A gull doing a civic service: eating an invasive fish.
That's it for now...