The Em & Kris Vancouver Visit

It has been a few days in coming, but I finally found the time to reflect on Emily and Kris's visit to Vancouver in the last week. Let's just say that it has taken some time to come to terms with the empty feeling that has remained, since their departure. Mmmmmm..... anyway enough of that touchy, feelly stuff what did we get up to on their Vancouver holiday.

Well, with the majority of the Friday Night Gang in the same city for once, we certainly made the most of the local bars and restaurants. On the first night in Vancouver, freshly off the plane, we headed to the roof top terrace at the Keg in Yale Town. Everyone enjoyed the good food, awesome views and a very pleasant evening of pickling our livers! One of the major highlights of the Emily and Kris trip, especially for me, was a trip on the Vancouver Harbour Paddle Steamer, in the bright Spring sunshine. Nancy and I never quite managed to get on the boat last year and it continually goes past our apartment building. On the 2.45pm sailing, we had a hour tour of the Vancouver Harbour in great sunshine, albeit a bit a strong cross wind. We took some great pictures of downtown Vancouver, Stanley park,various seaplanes, etc. The evening involved us watching theVancouver Canucks hockey playoff game in a local bar, with some more drinking - much fun was had by all, including a sing-song to Anthony's voicemail!

With our hangovers on Sunday, we had a lazy morning watching the Vancouver marathon runners go past our window and the most it inspired us to do was to get up out of bed and opening presents for Nancy's birthday. Kris and I went off to the golf driving range, while Nancy (as a birthday treat to herself) took Emily to the nail saloon for treatments. Later in the week, Emily, Kris and myself went up to the top of Grouse Mountain via the cable car and then onto the Capailano Suspension Bridge. This was made even more impressive by the fact that Kris overcame his vertigo.... the white knuckles and fake smile were signs of it, but he was very strong and both feats were achieved in style.

Nancy also completed a skydive on Friday lunchtime, as it was cancelled on her birthday due to the poor weather. The weather was perfect with bright sunshine and limited wind speed. We were all impressed with Nancy, as she has a bit of vertigo as well and showed great confidence when getting in the plane and jumping at over 10,000 feet. Check out the numerous photos from the Em and Kris holiday.... a couple of these pictures might even be Shears 2011 Calendar worthy!