Travelling To The Island ...

 July 31, 2014

Our two families decided to travel to Vancouver Island together ...

to attend Teresa's Celebration of Her Life Ceremony ...

We met in Golden ...

 Craig and Ella popped into our vehicle and travelled with us ...

James stayed in mom & dads car ... keeping Ruckus company ...

plus he had the whole back seat and videos all to himself ...

the other two were quite comfortable with us ...

After hours and hours of travelling ... with many stops along the way ...

we ended up staying in Chilliwack overnight ... 

Aug. 1, 2014

Early in the morning we were headed for Horseshoe Bay ...

to sail our way over to Nanaimo ...

Craig was intrigued with the Portman bridge ...

seeing all those cables ...

With it being the long weekend ... we had a 3 sailing wait ...

we ended up going to the Horseshoe Bay Park ...

to have a quick lunch ...

On the ferry ...

playing arcade games ... reading ... playing on the iPad ...

Grandpa and Ella ... tried to walk out on the deck ...

but the wind was so strong they were almost blown away ...

We were invited to the Roberts household for dinner ...

meeting everyone else there ...

There was plenty for all of us to eat ... salads ... buns ... goodies ...

Jacob was in charge of broiling up the burgers ...

Now ... a crisis had arisen ...

the moose was loose ... he doesn't know his own strength ...

Nathan had just gone in for a beer ...

on his way out ... he pulled the door open ... and it had come off the track ...

so you couldn't open it from the top or inward ...

so Nathan set his beer down on the floor ... to try and fix it ...

 (in my mind I thought someone was going to knock it over ...)

WELL ... Cindy came to see what all the commotion was about ...

and kicked the can of beer over ...

at the same time Jacob had a couple cheese burgers ready on the flipper ...

to give to Maren for the girls ...

and wouldn't you know it ... they never made it to the plate ...

they landed on the floor ... cheese side down ...

Oh my goodness ... what a gong show ... 

it then took 5 guys to figurer out how to get the door back on ...

Mike figured out that there was a speaker wire holding up the process ...

Eventually the door was fixed and back in normal working order ... 

After dinner the kids went out to have a game of tossing the football around ...

loosing it in the thick brush ... sending Nathan down the hill to try and find it ...

Craig taking Jacob by surprise with his martial arts moves ... 

Jacob was a little red-faced ...and out ...!!!

Later in the evening ...

 Craig and James helped Jacob with making Dan's favourite ...

 Chocolate Pudding Cake ... for his birthday ...

Children were tucked in bed ... adults sitting out on the deck ...

visiting and watching the beautiful sunset over the ocean ...