Our house is a hotel

Hello All,

Not only has it taken a while for me to pick up the keyboard to blog (Kev here by the way), but I am sure that this will take a while to bash out...we bought a Mac today, so I am getting used to the differences from the PC. The best thing so far is that iPhoto has some face recognition stuff going on. After I have typed in a few names on photos that we have imported, the software keeps asking me "is this Phil Miller" and I have to correct it! I did have one instance where it thought Richard Aubrey was his youngest daughter - Rachel! Not sure how reliable this will be, bit of fun though!

So we had a long weekend in Whistler with BJ, Ben, Logan and Jaycob a week or so back. Feels like quite a while, but it was only last Sunday that they left. col 'bungeed' I think she blogged about that. The next day we took the Peak to Peak gondola that links Whistler Mountain to Blackcomb Mountain. The scenery was spectacular. We were in shorts and T-shirts in the snow!! Our whole trip up there just had us longing for the ski season - so that we could shred again! (Don't cringe Tim and Michele, just kidding).

Then after the gondola, we zip lined. Crazy stuff!! Attached to a taut piece of metal cable whipping through the forest several hundred feet above a raging river! I think I was the best in our group, doing upside down stars way before anyone was even letting go with their hands! don't have pictures of me, as I was in charge of the camera! Here's one or two on Col and BJ though.

The next day was much more sedate, cycling to the lake where the brave Ben took Jaycob into the icy water / glacial outwash! Here are the kids having all the fun in the sleeping trailer!

On the whole Whistler was stunning, and as I speak Col is trying to line up our next trip for some awesome shredding dude (sorry T and M again).

BJ, Ben and the kids came down to Seattle then, and stayed for about 6 days - we had a small party on the Saturday and the weather was amazing - soon after we bought a sun umbrella and two sun lounges...and soon after we saw the end of summer!!!

Two days after the Aubrey-Whites left, my parents arrived. This spell was only two days, they are now in LA with good friends for 2 weeks before coming back to Seattle and a couple of weeks in the Pacific Northwest. We will head up to Victoria, BC when they come back.

Oh, by the way for those that are interested, Canada was a new country for me!!!