Well, it's just after five in the afternoon here, and we've had a great day for Hols' 3rd Birthday - many pink outfits, glitter sparkles and a new doll's house - sooper exciting!
I'll post photos a bit later.
Main news is that Mrs R is reporting that things are 'getting going', so we've packed Hols off to the Zawadzkis for the evening - we'll see what happens - I'll keep those people informed who would want to be kept informed of such things.......
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Smith Rocks!
The weekend after OD went off for her 3 days of pampering and luxury, I decided to sit in a car with Colin for 7 hours whilst I bombarded him with melancholic singer songwriters from my ipod - serves him right for only bringing the 100 greatest handbag house tracks on his fancy music phone.
Drive down was fun actually - been a long while since I was down in deepest Seattle and central Oregon.
Portland has a lot of people who really rate god as "an all round good chap" - maybe he'll sort out their sub-prime mortgage mess for them.
Portlanders do appreciate the finer things in life though...... not bad for a corner shop.
On the way down we went boarding on Mt Hood - makes you realise just how lucky we are to have Whistler just up the road. As you can see, we were stoked. This was pre-shredding.
Post shredding on lumpy icy snow, we were a little less syked.
Col did manage a little off-piste bouldering though.....
We then spent a couple of days climbing at Smith Rocks - good to be back - it'd been nearly 10 years since I was last there - it was still fingery. Most entertaining couple of days with a bunch of reprobate vancouver climbing types.
Really cool place though - be a good spot to go back en famille in the autumn and do some camping, climbing, paddling, snake bothering etc.
Drive down was fun actually - been a long while since I was down in deepest Seattle and central Oregon.
Portland has a lot of people who really rate god as "an all round good chap" - maybe he'll sort out their sub-prime mortgage mess for them.
Portlanders do appreciate the finer things in life though...... not bad for a corner shop.
On the way down we went boarding on Mt Hood - makes you realise just how lucky we are to have Whistler just up the road. As you can see, we were stoked. This was pre-shredding.
Post shredding on lumpy icy snow, we were a little less syked.
Col did manage a little off-piste bouldering though.....
We then spent a couple of days climbing at Smith Rocks - good to be back - it'd been nearly 10 years since I was last there - it was still fingery. Most entertaining couple of days with a bunch of reprobate vancouver climbing types.
Really cool place though - be a good spot to go back en famille in the autumn and do some camping, climbing, paddling, snake bothering etc.
OD goes to spa
OD went off with the girls for a well earned spa break to the Island - I took the Friday off work, and me and Hols spent all weekend drinking beer and eating burgers.
We also managed to hit a couple of parks, get some snowshoeing in and meet Colin and the gang up at The Bluffs - spring hit with a vengeance, and it was t-shirts all round.
Hols likes lollipops......
- still lots of snow up high though.
We also managed to hit a couple of parks, get some snowshoeing in and meet Colin and the gang up at The Bluffs - spring hit with a vengeance, and it was t-shirts all round.
Hols likes lollipops......
- still lots of snow up high though.
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