This past week my husband was only able to have one day off. Generally he's off Thursday-Saturday, but this week he needed to be at work for Thursday & Friday. That left Saturday. Every week we try and have "Family Day". We try and make it fun, but the point is just to be together - the three of us. I'd been seeing commercials on TV for " Eat Vancouver" and told Nate I thought it might be fun for us to go. In the meantime, he had found a bike trailer for us to cart Jericho around in on craigslist (I LOVE CRAIG AND HIS LIST!). So we decided to leave at 11 am yesterday and head in to pick up the trailer and go to the food show. The trailer was perfect so we stuffed it in our car with the child and his stroller and diaper bag. The car was full, but not overly. Then we headed to BC Place and enjoyed sample after sample of some really good food. We had parmesean reggiano, blueberry juice, smoked salmon, kiwi smoothie, ravioli, cheese, kettle chips made in MR, gelato, pizza, etc. etc. etc. I ate alot!! Which wasn't good for my diet, but most samples were so small and I was walking so much that I excused it. Tsk tsk. But we also got free samples - about 8 bags of rice and a razor each. Not sure what razors have to do with food - but I'm excited to use mine.
We hung around there for about 3 hours and headed home. On the way, I suggested to Nate that maybe we could bike to church. Seeing as we had this great new bike trailer all we needed was a bike for me...and a helmet...and a gel seat...and locks....So we went to Canadian Tire with our little VW filled with baby, trailer, rice samples, stroller, etc. So we bought me a bike. It's cute and red and a got a helmet to match - YAY! And we managed to stuff everything in our car. The poor baby just would stare at everything around him... mostly wheels.
We basically got home, unloaded everything and while I got Jericho changed and dressed and packed his bag... Nate got the bikes road ready. Church is about 12 kms away so it was a great ride, it just took me awhile to get used to the gears and the hills and how to use them both together properly. But we did make it in time, and we even rode home too.
THEN, when we got home, our friends Cam & Nikki were there waiting for us! We hadn't seen them since before I was pregnant, but they are good friends who just live far away. Now Nikki is expecting and looks glowing! We put our bikes away and chatted for awhile before we headed to Red Robin for a late dinner.
It was a fabulous day and I think we made up for Nate only having the one day off. Now I think I'll go back to sleep seeing as the babe was up every hour after 3 am. Doesn't he know how tired Mommy is?
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i guess ill excuse the cheating cause i had homemade blueberry pie WITH whip cream. Not a small size either... by the way, do you think you could do a 1/2 spinning class instead of a 1? Cause i dont want to go back to that same girl.
Yum. Wait until you come to Brooklyn and taste my new favorite ice cream. So good but it's gotta be so high in fat that you might have to bike back to MR instead of JetBlue.
Miss you....you're never on Skype. Let's make a date.
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