We arrived safe and sound in Vancouver yesterday, the first of July, Canada Day... very fitting. The overnight flight was a bit difficult as Ella took few minutes to adjust to being forced to stay seated. Once the flight took off she was alseep and slept the whole 5 hours to LA.
The 3 hour flight to Vancouver went okay, Ella was overtired, overstimulated and a bit cranky but managed to sleep most of the way.
The weather is gorgeous, warm and sunny with the nicest cool breeze. We're staying on the island and are spending our second night here in Parksville, camping with Stephanie, Matthew and Oscar. If you can really call it camping... an RV park in a loaded RV with a/c, stove, microwave, bathroom and TV. It's a very nice way to "camp".I forget how beautiful it is here and the landscape is stunning. We headed to the river where we are camping and crossed to the other side to get to the sand. BURRRRRRRR!!! The water is freezing and the current almost had me toppled over. I did loose a flip flop to the current and as the locals pointed out it was just down there, near the shore, probably not too deep... did I mention the water is FREEZING. I did go in and get it to save face. Ron didn't even make it to his knees before deciding it really wasn't worth it...
