So it was off to Seattle for the weekend. We were extremely lucky and Dave got to borrow a company car for the weekend – so no car hire charges – woohoo! The border was an experience, and took little over an hour to get through the queues and get stamped at the station. They are very thorough, checking if we all had jobs (luckily they didn’t hear the dirty jobless student status from Dawn!), where the car was from, what we were doing etc… It was a straig...

So we returned to Vancouver for Canada Day, which Megan and I both had off work so could spend the whole day with the girls. We headed to Granville Island, where we watched the festivities and got Dawns face covered in Canadian Maple Leafs. (luckily they did come off the next day after numerous face washing sessions). This was shortly followed by the biggest burgers you have ever seen! And then a trip downtown, where we watched the most god awful parade! Seriousl...

So the Canadians were warned about the imminent arrival of Caroline and Dawn and they prepared well – stocked all the chocolate shops and baked all the cupcakes! And after 7 days they are all sold out! Ha… So we picked the girls up and took them to Gastown for the first night of drinks and food – Steamworks with Millie and Ewan. So Friday came and we headed off to Tofino, a small town on Vancouver Island at the southern edge of Clayoquot Sound. Rumour ha...

Good afternoon We write to you now from a very hot Vancouver, where both Megan and I have some great tan lines. It’s absolutely gorgeous outside right now, while we are sitting in our offices by the sea. It’s a hard life! Anyhow to bring you up to date with what we have been up to since we last wrote, well the weather last week was pretty horrible! I competed in Bike to work week with my company, eventually finishing 3rd (no not out of 3!!!!); I clocked u...

Good morning. We hope you are all enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend, ours was last week and we are very jealous of you all now! So as this seems to be our fortnightly update, we have mainly been working the week and doing as much as possible on the weekend. Anyhow we wished Danny happy birthday last week, and a trip to Lynn Valley in North Vancouver was definitely the highlight. The exclusive neighbourhood is home to a spectacular (free) national park, with Su...