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Blogdate: August 10, 2024 |
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| Passing right overhead was this Canadian CF-18 demonstration jet. |
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| Rian and friends turn for a better look as a fighter jet vectors in for a high speed pass. |
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| That's kind of cool with and older and a newer together: a Raptor and a Skyraider in close formation. |
| Since we were leaving for camping tomorrow, I wasn't planning on going to the airshow, but then a late phone call invite to enjoy the show from the comfort of the RV parking area of the airshow meant I passed on doing chores/packing up and drove out to Abbotsford to see some airplanes. |
Blog date: July 26, 2024 |
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| Rian waiting for the chairlift to get up to the trails at Whistler mountain. (C. Davis photo) |
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| Rian and friend about to do "A-Line" on Whistler Mountain. (C. Davis photo) |
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| The boys watching one of the Crankworx races at Whistler, BC. |
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| Whistler Village makes for an impressive backdrop for the Crankworx Mountain Bike Competition. |
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| The Fitzsimmons chair in the backgrouund, photographers in the foreground, and riders in the middle during Whistler's annual Crankworkz. |
| Since Crankworx was being held at Whistler, and Rian was already there montain-biking with friends, we decided to drive up for the day to see what all the excitement was about. And from what I can tell, mountain-bike racing has more people in either an arm sling, leg cast, or wheelchair than any other sport I've watched or participated in. Either way, it was exciting to see people go fast and do tricks, most often at the same time. |
Blog date: July 2, 2024 |
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| In New Halem, we stop to take the obligatory family photo on the steam train. |
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| Eli finally got to paddle the twenty-two miles of river between Winthrop and Twisp, with no adults present. |
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| Dock diving at Pearrygin Lake is the best way to cool off. |
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| I feel like this guy has been the fourth of July parade leader for two decades now. |
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| The view of the Ross Lake resovoir and the Cascade mountains from the Diablo lookout on State Highway 20. |
| This was our sixteenth summer of driving the four hours south into Washington state during the fourth of July week for our annual campout at Pearrygin Lake State Park. The very first time we did this in 2008 it was also just four of us since Eli wasn't born yet, and now this time, it was the two youngers since Bodhi was away at a summer job in Hope, BC. With an encroaching heat dome, being able to jump into the cool lake water at any time certainly made a higher and higher daily temperature much more tolerable if not outright refreshing. |
Blogdate: June 29, 2024 |
| My father passed away four years ago at eighty-six years of age. Today, his cousin, who was born in the same year, in the same village in China, turned ninety-two and his wife turned ninety-one. Despite being in their early nineties, they made the trip from their home on Calgary to Richmond, BC, to host a birthday party. |
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