Sunday, February 24th, 2008


Anthony on 24 Feb 2008 09:14 pm

geocaching.gif14 degrees and sunny. Ah, February in Vancouver. Amidst the gloom and rain, it always seems we get one week of sunshine in February. So, we did what any sensible family does, we went out and enjoyed it … by doing some geocaching!

We grabbed a few from UBC campus (True North, Strong and Free, and The Whaler’s Pole) and then headed down to the foreshore…

Here are a few from a cache appropriate called Strait of Georgia View:

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And these were all taken from a cache called “Acadia Beach” (sadly many klicks away from Acadia)

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Gwen tries to hide from muggles while putting the cache back:

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More from the beach:

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And yesterday I managed to squeeze in a “nemesis” cache: Top Arch. You might get a kick out of my original DNF log and the final find log.

And, oh!  Our 7th placed cache (replacing a cache we had adopted): Rock One Hundred.

Anthony on , 24 Feb 2008 07:39 pm

Yesterday, my second cousins Hendrik and Andreanna came over, Hendrik with his girlfriend Lisa, and Andreanna with her husband Sean and their kids Nellie and Juliana. Aidan and Nellie and Juliana are third cousins, which is to say, they are the children of second cousins, who are children of first cousins, who are children of siblings. Got that? Aidan’s great-grandmother and Nellie and Juliana’s great-grandfather were siblings.

We got the party started in the usual way, with wine, Guitar Hero III, and mutual humiliation.

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We got down to some serious eating, and managed to squeeze everyone around the table:

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Nellie liked Aidan’s doll:

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And Aidan and Gwen liked Juliana. Aidan was really quite gentle with his baby cousin.

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