Rainy days on the sunshine coast

We woke up in the middle of a rain forest! Dave and I had arranged the night before to get up early with Ruben and go to the beach. ha! No chance of that, so we went to Sechelt instead. We stopped for coffee at the Basted Baker, but the food looked so good we ended up having breakfast instead. I expect I'll blog more about this when I've uploaded my cellphone pictures.

Next the three of us went grocery shopping.

By the time we arrived home, we found this scene on the sofa.

Ruben jumped in and started playing with Andrew.

And mugging for the camera.

Love the little scrunched up nose.

Also, looking at these pictures is making me miss all four of my far away nieces and nephews so very  much.

While Dave and Alexis cooked our Thanksgiving dinner, Ruben and I played in the puddles.

This area they're living in - the property, the neighborhood - it's like a park. I'm so in love.

Anyway, back to the puddles.

After a while, we decided to see what was going on in the backyard. Stopping briefly at the van.

Kay so after posing for ten million pictures (and making his aunty so very happy), Ruben started asking for Lishi.

And Ada came out too.

After being inside most of the day, we were so exuberant in our puddle jumping.

Well, some of us.

oh, there we go!

And then we picked bouquets of fall flowers.

Thanksgiving weekend on the Sunshine Coast

My brother invited us to visit his family for Thanksgiving weekend. They're living in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast. So even if we didn't miss them, we would have jumped at the chance.

By the way, it is SO nice to be invited somewhere.

The boys were really excited to be reunited with their Canadian cousins.

We hung out for a bit, and then we went to Davis Bay.

Son David (henceforth Brother Dave shall be known as Dave, Son David as David) complained about the texture of the sand.

But I don't know, the rocks are pretty fun too.

And the pier makes for some dramatic pictures.

The kids threw rocks in the water from the beach, and then amused themselves running to the shore, picking up the biggest rocks they could carry and then dropping them off the pier to try and get the biggest splash possible.

The pier is enclosed on three sides, but the longest side, the side that opens to the deepest part, is open. That's super stressful for people herding little kids.

So mum, just don't look at this next picture :)

We decided that before we lost someone into the ocean, and before me or Dave had a heart attack, we would go to the store across the road and buy some gelato.

I think everyone was exhausted - we had a bunch of zombies eating their gelato.

We knew that Saturday was supposed to be miserable. It was nice to enjoy the sunshine while it lasted...