Guest Blogger: Mom!

Hi Family!

 I am having a wonderful holiday here ,with Jonnie & Carmella in beautiful British Columbia and send each one of you much love.

 My love goes out to you  all across the provinces,  the countries  and across the continents!

Here we are Saturday morning on the boat to Bowen Island.  We had a great trip.  You can see that the weather is absolutely gorgeous.  

The scenery is breath taking and the weather bright and sharp.  We spent four hours on our trip; riding the local bus, hiking a bit,talking, mellowing and exploring and then  running like crazy to get the ferry back!

Jonnie took this.  He has been here once with Carmella so wanted to show me the island.

I found the biggest maple leaf on our hike!  Oh Canada!  I have never seen maple leaves so large!  I thought I could bring it home for the scrapbook but it is now dry and crunchy keeping company with a red gerbera on the dining room table.

This is Snug Harbour, Bowen Island.  I have been paying a great deal of attention to the natural beauty all around; especially the plant life.  I have seen holly bushes and even Holly trees.

Here I am taking yet another picture!  You all know how I love taking pictures!

Jonnie & Carmella went to a a Novaween party at Cyndi's.  Carmella is applying make up to Jonnie's tiger face.

Here they are ready to go. I stayed home and watched two episodes of the Passionate Eye.  I believe you will recognize Vincent Van Gogh's self portrait painting.  Jonnie makes a cute tiger don't you think?  He even had black and white shoes.

Here is Wes dancing with the painting.  They are dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller".

It was a fun party.  You can get more detail from the previous blog.  I enjoyed myself here at home reading and munching on coffee crisp chocolate bars.

Carmella and I went for early coffee Sunday morning before church.  We had a good long walk afterwards.  Here she is at Kits beach which is probably only ten city blocks from home.

Inside of one week I have seen one of the seven wonders of the world with Jean and now one of the home wonders.  Notice that the sailboats are even out!

I love this picture.  Carmella gave me a small pill box and I put some of Kits beach sand in it to bring home.

This hydrangea reminds me of our home.

After church on Sunday we went to Acadia Beach where Jonnie & Carmella got engaged about one year ago.  Here they are looking out on the water.

We searched for just the right log that they sat on to eat their special buns.  We believe that this is it because Carmella put a stone inside so that they would always know.  I enjoyed hearing the stories once again.

There were many logs on the beach.  Just behind us you can see three hikers and their dog having an open fire picnic.  the weather was cool and they were very warm. They had packets of food ready to put in the fire.

Jonnie & Carmella are pointing out the natural features as they try to pinpoint exactly the place where they got engaged. 

The apple blossoms is still out

We watched two seals!  Perhaps you can see a dark spot.  If you can, you know what it is!  I found this very exciting!

That is it for today!  I am off to the children's bookstore and a great cup of "Australian" coffee somewhere.

I love you all!

Lykke/Mom/Moeke/Ma/Mormor