Arrived in Canada

We left bright and early, 5 AM, and headed for the airport. We changed planes in Seattle, went through customs and were off to Victoria, BC. It was raining and drizzily, but being a good Seattlite it was no problem. Our plans are to spend three nights in Vancouver and then three nights in Victoria. Since our first stay was in Vancouver we set our navigator, Emily, to take us to our condo in Vancouver. We knew we needed to take a ferry there and the ferry took one and a half hours to get to Vancouver, but what beautiful senery we saw along the way, so many islands and little inlets. We finally arrived at our condo and what a surprise. It has floor to ceiling windows in every room and a little breakfast nook with windows on all sides. From the 22 floor we have a spectacular view of the city. We took a long walk, had dinner, and settled in for the night.

SNOW!

Our friends, Laura, Guy, and Mackenzie invited us up to their cabin in Huntington Lake on Saturday. The kids were so excited to go to the mountains. They really wanted to see snow. Unfortunately there hasn't been much snow this year yet, but we were able to find some man made snow at Sierra Summit. It was perfect. The kids were so excited to touch it, eat it, and to throw snow balls. After, we went back to the cabin-chatted, had hot chocolate, and made a bon fire. It was so fun and the kids were kicking and screaming when it was time to leave. We definitely need to do stuff like this more often! Thank you Brautigam family.

Family Picture

Several months ago, I bid on and won a phototography session at a silent auction. So, this past montth I decided it was time to use it and get a family picture. We have so few pictures of every one together. It is quite a challenge trying to get three 3-year olds and a 1 year old to look at a camera all at the same time. I feel we have a successful picture if no one is crying and every one is looking at the camera. Well, we got it. Angela Person took these pictures of our family at Woodward Park. I love all the fall colors and especially love the triplets faces in these pictures. They were such good sports.

Robert Pattinson Signing

Once upon a time, Miranda was looking on the internet and found out that Robert Pattinson (the man who is playing Edward in Twilight) was going to be in San Francisco on the exact same day she was going to be there. Heidi and Miranda were extremely excited (well mostly Miranda) to meet such a dreamy guy. Early rising got us with numbers between 237 and 240, we were definitely in, until the numbers weren't honored. This was very upsetting so like good people we got in another line and waited and waited and waited for the doors to open. Except the doors could not open because of the crazy teenage girls. An ambulance, many police officers, some firemen, and four helicopters arrived. They couldn't even control the crowd of 3,000 people. The event was then canceled! :'( No one could believe it so they remained standing in their same spots but other girls that were bawling dragged their feet to their cars. Then we found out that the tour tee would still be sold so why not wait around for another 3 hours to buy it? That is exactly what we did. At this point they told us we could come back at 6 pm to receive our signed poster. But Robert Pattinson turned out to be there and when Miranda saw him, she became blinded for at least 3 minutes.


Line Buddies. Miranda and Paige.
A feel for the line...




Confused girls. (ugh, Miranda doesn't look so good when she wakes up at 3:30 am)

Disappointed Girls. No clue why we are smiling. ????

Back on!

Miranda and Heidi

How Miranda and Paige spent their line time.

FINALLY! (p.s. it still smells good)

Banana Slugs!

What is it about licking banana slugs?   Gross!!!Boone Poulsen
One of these things is not like the other!
James Mason

The California Academy of Science is Finally Open

James and Sam are checking out one of the large aquariums

This is on the Living Roof of the academy.

Craig, Karen, Heidi, James and Sam had a great time at the Academy of Science in SF. The planetarium was amazing. We all thought it was a cross between Soaring Over California and an I Max show. We all loved the 3-D bug show too. These guys are cool in their 3-D glasses.

Visitors!

Ernie and Michelle came to Clovis for a Doctor's appointment with Dr. Eric Poulsen.  They came and visited the house for dinner and Tiffany brought over her kids so they could meet.  We figured we better get a picture,  you never know when they will be back this way again!  Michelle made me promise I wouldn't use this picture for a Christmas card.  She didn't say anything about a blog! (Left to right - Tiffany Schwebach, Michelle Versaggi, Eric Poulsen, Ernie Poulsen)