Happy Hour

 And a glass or two of wine!

Happy hour!

Proper food


Tired of our hotel room and requiring a change of scenery and rations we made an early escape to the airport once the negative Covid tests arrived.  

Imagine our delight, after 2 days without a drink to ease the frustration, to find the airport bar was doing Happy Hour.  Given the absence of passengers, it was probably doing it all day!  Several glasses of Sauvignon later and a few nibbles, spirits were restored.  Never has airport food tasted so good.

As a domestic arrival in Vancouver we had bags collected and were in the back of a taxi in all of 15 minutes from touchdown.  

The drive across to North Vancouver in the Blueridge area, just east of Lynn Regional Park took about 40 minutes.  It is a quiet, residential, tree-lined neighbourhood which we knew from past walks in Lynn.  Fred chose this accommodation because we have seven days of remaining quarantine after Jack arrives and needed some space. 

Self contained, with the use of a large enclosed grassed garden, sorry back-yard, it will be a perfect base before we start venturing out, exploring local walks, organising a vehicle and continuing longer term property searches. 

The only challenge since arriving was deciding what to have for breakfast, spoilt for choice by the supplies dropped off by Nick.  He thoughtfully included a few bottles of wine , some tulips and homemade cookies from Lizzie.  

This is going to be more than OK for the remaining quarantine and as a base for exploring.  Good to be surrounded by trees, rather than urban concrete, and birdsong rather than traffic noise.  It is all rather peaceful here.



Pines all around
Our dedicated back-yard

While we were being constrained in our activities, Nick was exploring the wilds of British Columbia back-country near Pemberton.  He and several skiing mates who had been training in back-country survival were helicoptered in (and out) to the mountains near Mt Miller for a couple of nights camping and skiing.   
 


Not all blue sky days, all sub-zero, no ski-lifts, no mountain rescue just walking up for hours, before skiing down in minutes.  What an achievement!  The images and videos were simply stunning. Listening to the conversations on the videos about taking safe routes down reinforced the care and planning that had gone in to the expedition.   No wonder his mountain kit birthday and Christmas presents requests had been rather obscure to us, till now!   No wonder he didn't tell us what was involved until after!!  

Methinks this is more for the thirty somethings, rather than the sixty!









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