The Taelemans´ Blog

Sorry for the lack of posts lately but we have been busy (as everyone around this period I think).
I hope everybody enjoyed their New Year’s eve. We sure did!

We’ve had dinner in the Salmon House. It’s a really nice restaurant. I think it’s even one of the best and nicest decorated restaurants I’ve ever seen. It’s based in West Vancouver and the view from the dinning room is stunning: you can see Vancouver and Stanley Park. And of course, the most important part, the food was GREAT!

I also promised you some pictures of the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Normally you visit the bridge during the day, and it is quite expensive, especially if you know that there is another suspension bridge in the neighborhood which is free, but this time of the year, they organize something special called Canyon Lights.

Canyon Lights is a winter celebration of light. You can cross the suspension bridge and explore the forest from another perspective at night. Canyon Lights features over 200,000 twinkling lights throughout the park. So really spectacular to see.
Normally the admission fee is 13 dollars, but we’ve went to visit the bridge last Sunday, and it was closed due to extreme weather conditions. The good thing about it was, that we received free admission tickets in case we returned before the 4th of January.

I wasn’t really fond of walking on the bridge, because it was slippery and moving a lot, but the extra trip was totally worth it!

We also tried snowboarding on Grouse Mountain, but it was so crowded that it wasn’t pleasant. There was a 40 minute wait to get on the chairlifts. So we didn’t do many runs… But it was nice to do some snowboarding in the last days of 2008. And the view was amazing!

We did a lot of other things this week, so more pictures coming up, but we don’t want to post everything at once.

Ooh and just to let you guys know, everything is well with Freggels too. He even got a Christmas present.

Although I’m wondering if it was necessary to buy the tent, because during the preparation of my parents their luggage he enjoyed himself with a bag he found on the floor and that didn’t cost anything:).