Thanksgiving Weekend

It's Monday night, and Patrik is upstairs putting Anna to bed after a weekend on Vancouver Island. We've all had such a great time, though we spent some of it apart. We headed over to Nanaimo on Friday night, and after a quick visit and breakfast on Saturday morning, Patrik and I left Anna in the loving hands of mormor and morfar and headed up island for an over-night trip.

First on the agenda was a little hike at Englishman River Falls. The water is low at this time of year, but the falls and the river were still beautiful, and there were plenty of 'fika' opportunities along the way.



Then we headed to Parksville where we had booked into Tigh-na-mara for the night. It's a beautiful old resort on the water. We spent the afternoon on a long beach walk - you can spend hours just walking the coastline - and then at the pool, hot tub and sauna. It was bliss! We followed all of that up with a delicious fire-side dinner. It's amazing what you can fit into the day when you're on your own!




In the morning the tide was way out and we took another walk along the coast before heading out to explore a little more of the island.


We were sooooo excited to see Anna when we got back to Nanaimo. We hear that she had a fantastic time, as did mormor and morfar, and we're thinking that we may have started a very nice tradition...