Join us, Allan & Mary-Ann for our travel adventures in Bailey :)
But first, Kyle’s marvelously delicious drink. Some gin concoction with raspberries.
Christmas cookies made by…… not me this year
Dinner, we kind of forgot to preplan…. after many Skip the Dishes attempts Indian food for the win!! Finally, present time!
Not going to bore you all with the tons of opening gifts photos! Just a few 🙂 You are welcome!!
This was a super fun Christmas!!
Start the day with a walk around Thetis Lake Allan is wearing his first ever hiking boots!
Very nice walk
Thetis Lake BC Duck #55
Confession time! We opened the last 2 days of our advent calendar before we left.
Ta Da…
Great, easy drive!
Presents under the tree
Kyle making us a pre-dinner drink. Yummy!!
Dinner = grilled lettuce, stuffed chicken thighs wrapped in bacon, spring roll
My Sweeties!
June 20 – Summer Solstice VS December 21 – Winter Solstice
Second longest….
The park’s plow still at it
The town of Nanaimo is hosting a Frosty Bucket challenge. Of course, we’re in!! Allan solved 11 of the clues, the one that eluded him was clue #7. Me to the rescue!
Wake up to snow, hopefully Nanaimo has less
We found all the clues in 2 days. Some of the hilights and what the QR codes look like.
And the 12 words are…
Submitted and received back this email….
“Well done Mary-Ann, I’m glad you had fun playing our competition. Your name will go in for our draw for our Gift Pack – unfortunately our Activate New Years Day event has been cancelled but follow our facebook for updates on other challenges we are going to offer instead.”
It was fun and we visited parks we otherwise would not have known about.
The day did brighten up!
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Allan’s prize today…keychain/bottle opener
A rare photo of Allan sitting on the floor (Allan doesn’t do floor sits) and no clue what the heck I’m doing.
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Today’s PSA
So festive! Helps put you in the Christmas spirit!
Rain/snow mix!
Heading to Kyle & Megan’s today to decorate the tree. But first our advent calendar opening
Allan’s second Dragon gift, a koozie
Only a little white knuckle with the pooling
Decorating time. goes quickly with 4 people actively participating
Whoops forgot the star, the falling star
Dec 12th
Go home day but will this weather ever co-operate. The Malahat Summit is challenging this time of year. Google maps drive time is 3h, should take 1.15m. Do we go or do we stay? While attempting to decide Kyle & Megan hook us up to VR, a first for us. It was fun but i’d rather just live in reality! Allan played the sit down, driving game a bit too long and became queasy.
Google now says 1.39m. Off we go..
It goes from this
to
and we’re stopped…
Made it home safely, fire time!
Love our new wall art…
A rude awakening! We don’t want this white stuff!!!
Making the best of it!
Let’s build a snowman!
And a fire
December 07th – Snowman is fading
An outdoor fire! Fire conditioner helped!
Today’s goodies!!!
Allan’s first eggnog! With what? Fireball of course
What goes with eggnog? Wrapping!!
December is ✈️ing by
Today we’d like to go to Ladysmith for the Festival of Lights. We ordered a Christmas take out dinner from the Legion. $20 a plate; dinner of 4 for $50. We love left overs dinner for 4 it is. Pick up is at 5ish so time to take in the lights and then pick up dinner.
Day’s not starting off looking nice.
It’s looking up!
Sure is beautiful!
Not so much!
Time to pick up dinner! We were going to invite friends to join us, that would have been embarrassing.
About 4 1/2 slices of turkey in our turkey dinner for 4, some ham-more than turkey, 3 buns… 2 tarts and 2 tiny bars for dessert. We did enjoy what was there 🙂
End the day opening our advent calendar. Allan got a Dragon gift, one of 4! A tree ornament.
