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Yesterday we headed out to North/West Vancouver and Grouse Mountain for the Peak of Christmas event. We debated a little about it since we all have sinus colds, but finally decided we'd just have to dress warm and spend lots of time indoors. There is, after all, quite a bit to do indoors there.

After a very long drive we finally made it to the base of Grouse. After everyone had a pit stop, a diaper change, put on their snow pants, coats, gloves, hats, and winter boots...well it was almost time to go home again! Sheesh...we need a mountain closer to where we live (tee hee).

Davey love the sculptures.
Once we were ready to go, we had to wait in a really long line up for the lift. Next time I think we'll buy our lift tickets online and print them off so we can bypass the line up. What with yesterday being the last day of school (and no one showing up for it!) the mountain was really busy!

Once you've got your lift ticket, you wait inside a cage for the tram/gondola to come and get you. Tink kept wanting to suck on the bars of the gate. Yah, she's that kind of kid...

Though the weather wasn't spectacular (but, hey it was SNOWING, not raining!) the ride up was.
Even the kids were in awe, and I am SO homesick for Lenk!

Your lift ticket gets you into everything at the top of the mountain. So they had a Santa's workshop, caroling, Christmas movies...

...all the snow any little boy could handle...

(or little girl for that matter!)


...they have real reindeer and do some kind of interactive thing with them twice a day. But we missed that.


We still got to see the reindeer though. The kids loved 'em.

AND THEY HAVE A FREE SLEIGH RIDE!! I wanted to leave the kids with Santa and just go with Andrew, but he wouldn't let me.

So here we ALL are on the sleigh. Very excited.


And for any snow lovers, it was amazingly gorgeous. I think I need to move up there.

(notice the icicle hanging from this poor eagle's beak? Reminded me of Narnia)...


Well after the sleigh ride we were in desperate need of a warm up and, oh yah...LUNCH! So after listening to some roving carolers inside the lodge we found a nice warmish spot to sit and colour.

"Look how fast I'm drawing circles, mamma"

After a delicious lunch (pizza for the kids, beef stew for Andrew and a steak for me) Davey had to go say hi to the giant nutcracker/soldier. We also stopped to listen to more carolers. This time by an amazing (voiced) man who was also playing the piano. Nice!

The kids decided they wanted to play in the snow a bit more before we left.



Davey remembered sledding on his butt last year, so he started doing that. Then we started pulling them down the hill...

Waiting for mum to come and give him a tow...

And finally, going down on his belly. I think we need to invest in a sled...