On our way home

Sorry there have been no pics/updates.

We have been in Calgary all week visiting with friends and staying with Wendy & Bryan, the world's best hosts (and friends). We have had a great time. Kat was spoiled beyond belief. Santa and I think each reindeer brought her gifts, she cajoled Wendy into a few baths in the big jetted tub, more like a pool.

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Sorry for any typos.

Here comes Santa clause....

Well, she's not at all too sure about the big guy in red. But, he did have a bag of toys.....

So he couldn't be all bad, could he?
But he should be watched, nonetheless..

At a recent playdate. Kat believes that beds (and couches and chairs) are for jumping on.

The play place at the mall with Charlotte.

At our volunteer senior driving lunch last week. She made fast friends with the woman seated next to us. Luckily the attraction was mutual, as Kat spent more time with Maryann than with me (and Maryann seemed to enjoy it).

At snowflake lane again last week.

For Aunt Norma

It's 'red on yellow, dangerous fellow; red on black, friend of Jack'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_snake

Snowflake Lane

Second catch up post....

Last night we went to "Snowflake Lane" in DT Bellevue. They have characters, live drummer boys all over the place, mostly on stilts and many handing out peppermint suckers. They play xmas songs and then they make it SNOW. We went last year, though we missed the 15 minute window of snow. But it was really snowing, so we missed the crowds, the characters and the suckers. This year we had it all.

I know this is fuzzy, but Kat's inspection of Rudolph is too funny.

We liked the sucker.

This is the last of the Whistler pics. I pulled out the camera and Kat leaned in to Dan and said 'smile'.

This is how HRH crosses the river...she has people for that!

Back to Spaghetti Factory.

I love the look she's giving the paparazzi.

There was lots of puddle jumping in Whistler.

This is me skiing. We wanted o shoot video so we could show Kat the fun she missed.

Last of Whistler pics, finally

By popular demand, here are the rest of the pics from Whistler. Sorry about the delay. We got home and I got lazy (ier) and wanted to see if anyone was actually reading...

Kat loved playing with the doorstops in the Tantalus lobby. And walking her critters in their double stroller up and down the hallway, sometimes taking them up and down the elevator.....I was happy I brought it/them! Only mention of the pool (or hot tub) would distract her from her regular patrols.
Kat took this one of daddy (with a little help,but not much- she had the camera out and on when I found her!).

At the top of Franz's run.

I loved the snow glistening in the sun.

I taught Kat that better than a pool is the HOT TUB!!! She dug the hot tub.

A peak to peak chair coming out of the mist on Blackcomb.

A beautiful view- you don't always get to see it there.

This was a first in my 38 or so years of skiing. My right ski is completely stuck in the snow. I was having soooooo much fun gliding (floating) over the fresh snow-- my skis are made for those conditions-- that I got carried away and flew way up on the edge of the hill, where my skis promptly sank in over a foot of snow! And I fell backwards, laying down the hill. It was really funny, but unfortunately I had the camera so Dan didn't get pics till after the best shots had gone and I gave him the camera. He couldn't help me, I was on my own. It took a long time to get my boot free and dig out that ski. The snow was very, very deep.

The peak to peak- just 4 towers and an unsupported distance of well over 1 mile. But it looks extremely stable and sound.

From the gondola.

Dan skiing