I think I broke my toe.

We arrived in Kelowna tonight, after an amazing couple of days of visiting with friends. The only bad thing that happened, was I shut the RV passenger-side door on my big toe this afternoon and it's not looking so good. After Victoria we took the ferry to Mayne Island, a place we had never heard of before Andy's friend, Jeff, moved there. We spent the day on Jeff's farm, apple picking, gathering eggs from his hens, and eating our first 'edible' flowers. The flowers were far from delicious. Jeff took us to the Japanese   gardens and Dinner Bay park. The park had a zip line that was really fun.

Me and my two Dads.

Ziplining.

We took the ferry back to Vancouver Thursday night and spent the night in a downtown Wal-Mart parking lot. I've never seen such a bustling Walmart. It was super late before that place settled down.
Friday morning we headed to the Vancouver Aquarium and met up with my old friend Christy.  Christy and I were roommates at Capernwray Adventure Bible School in New Zealand (way back in 2000). We hadn't seen each other in ten years, and eight kids later, we had a lot of catching up to do. Christy and her 4 kids explored the aquarium with us and I'm not sure Annika even noticed the fish because she was so wrapped up in Christy's daughters, Tenesae and Ayrian. I think she's been seriously missing female friends. Soren, however, was loving the whales, dolphins, seals, and hundreds of fish. Kai said at the start of this trip that one of the things he really wanted to see was Beluga whales. So he was quite thrilled that we could check that off our list.

Absolute wonder. She stood there transfixed.

After the aquarium we went for a family bike ride/rollerblade around Stanley Park in downtown Vancouver. The weather was warm and the park was beautiful. It was so much fun.
Friday night we spent at the Bennik's farm. They have everything a kid could ever dream of: animals, playground, trampoline, tons of space to run around, etc. So our kids were in heaven, having a campfire and running around like maniacs.

Wide load coming through.

This morning, the Bennik family took us to Crescent Beach in Surrey. The kids caught crabs, Sawyer ate her weight in sand, and Soren took a bad fall on some barnacle-covered rocks and ended up with some serious war wounds. A day at the beach when it is almost October was awesome. Saying goodbye to the Bennik's was not fun, but we had a blast with them and would love to get our families together again sometime.

Tenesae, sticking a crab on me.

Sand eater.

Thank goodness for Facebook...keeping in touch!

We stopped at Bridal Veil falls (the second bridal veil we've been at) on the way to Kelowna today and went for a hike. It was such a lush forest...it seems weird that nothing here is changing to yellow, red, and orange yet.
Tomorrow marks the ONE month point for our trip. Can't wait to see what month number two will hold!