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Our Saturday mission: Find clothes for the red carpet event. We succeeded and as a reward we went to the Vancouver Aquarium. But first things first.

So we went to Metrotown on Saturday and we both didn’t know what to get (but you already knew that). Surprise, Surprise, Kris talked me in to buying a cocktail dress. So I’ve bought a black cocktail dress. Perfect match with my new shoes.

Kris decided to wear a black suit, and he bought himself a nice looking shirt, tie and belt.

Pictures will follow on Friday (because then we have to go to the event).

So after too many hours of shopping we decided we’d reward ourselves with a visit to the Vancouver Aquarium.

Today was a sunny day in Port Moody. Since we could only go to Fright Night at 6pm we decided to take a walk. There is a trail that starts not far from our apartment. It’s a rather short one, but definitely worth doing.

It’s a trail along the the bay and the path you are walking on, is a wooden path, so you feel like you are walking in the “Hoge Venen” (at least I felt like that:))

We were standing on some kind of platform and watching the shoreline and then suddenly somebody said: look there are some bear paws next to the water. So since it was still low water it meant that the bear had probably visited this spot early this morning (the footprint wasn’t washed away and it’s high water around 4pm).

If you click on the pictures you will be able to see them a little bit bigger and you will be able to see the paw. On the second picture you can find the paw in the shadow of the pole. Just underneath the small rock.

Today we took the Sea to Sky Highway to Whistler. Except for the Icefield Parkway, I think one of the most beautiful roads I’ve ever drove on.

A lot of construction works along the road (because of the winter Olympics in 2010), but still a nice scenic drive.

Today we’ve visited Grouse Mountain. The two main reasons of our visit:
- It’s our home snowboard resort (for next winter)
- It has a grizzly bear habitat ( wiiiii)

We drove up to North Vancouver and took the skyride to the top of Grouse Mountain.
The first show we saw was the lumberjack show. Pretty funny show with two lumberjacks competing against each other.

Checklist from this morning:
- patch that helps against seasickness
- sunscreen
- camera
- lunch pack

Although I really hate water and I get sick at see it was really worth it!

This morning we had to be on Granville Island to take the pod pilot for our whale watching trip.

Wild Whales Vancouver offered us a protective suit (which we really needed) and the guided us to our boat “the pod pilot”. We left Granville Island, direction Vancouver Island. After a bumpy ride we circled around the different islands near Vancouver Island. We didn’t see any whale for a while until suddenly our captain received a call from one of the other whale watching boats. A killer whale was spotted near Pender Island. The pod pilot rushed to the spotting place and suddenly out of nothing a fin of an orca came to the surface.

Mister Pender aka T14 decided to join us. Pender is a transient whale (whales also known as mammal hunters who travel between California and Alaska).
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Just a quick post to inform you all that I won’t have a lot of time to post in the next weeks, but I’ll make it up to you later! I’ll leave you for now with a picture I took some time ago in Antwerp, Belgium, of a dog eating a lollipop…

Lollipop

A picture of one of my favorite animals, a squirrel hiding a nut in the snow in a park in New York.

I has a nut!

I just got back from Stubai . I was there on a business trip, and there was really a lot of snow (pictures will follow later). It always reminds me of Christmas time. We always go snowboarding during the Christmas holidays and this year we decided to go to Kitzbühel, Austria. I hope there will be some snow, because I want to have a white Christmas.

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. And actually I have to admit I already bought a christmas tree… I know, waaaaaaaaaay too early, but well, it’s kinda cosy… (and even my cat likes it, well maybe he just likes the decoration of the tree).

But well this is what it looks like…

As long as I can remember, my parents always held chickens. But lately the chicken population dropped down to one due to some depressions in the chicken community. So, the day had arrived for one of the finest events in Taeleman family tradition, “Nieuwe Kiekensdag” (”New Chickens day”). I present to you one of the youngest chicks of the bunch, at her cutest.

Quick Monday post, another picture of Charlotte the Marmot posing in front of Lac Lauvitel near Les Deux Alpes.