Archive for the ‘Outdoors’ Category
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Since the Olympic Games have begun, our son has been asking to go ice skating. Partly because he saw figure skaters, speed skaters and hockey players on TV, and partly because we went to Robson Square where the Olympic mascots were giving a show on ice three times a day. ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
We had a wonderful summer. I don't care what the whiners will say: I don't remember any rain stopping us from going hiking or swimming, playing outside in the evening or biking around town. But it could not last forever. And now it's definitely over.
After what seemed like months of ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
The Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition and MEC organized 4 bike rides this summer to showcase the wonderful bike trails of Greater Vancouver. We heard about the Great Rides after the first one had already happened, and we were in Kelowna the weekend of the second one. But we were not ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
All in all, we had a great time camping, except...
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Friday night I was dehydrated. That happens to me way too often: I get a headache, I'm a bit nauseous and I need to go lie down so I can ...
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
You should see our son in his brand new sleeping bag! We figured we had to get him a real one for this trip, as it is not supposed to be overly warm: it could go down to 11 at night. MEC makes a nice kid's down sleeping bag, with ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Sunday morning, we headed to Stanley Park for Earth Run. The turn out was quite disappointing, but not unexpected when you consider that the race started at 8 am (registration was at 7, although we got there at 7:50 and barely made it before the start of the race). I ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
We just came back from a 6 day trip to the West coast of Vancouver Island which transformed DS into a lean, mean, rock-climbing machine. Or a mountain goat, I'm not sure... The beaches there are very rocky, and he decided that rocks were meant to be climbed. So we ...
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