Christmas at the Ranch

Hockey Night in Canada

Alexander, Carter and Rob were lucky enough to see the Canucks play the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night - the game was broadcast on Hockey Night in Canada and our signs saying 'Go Canucks Go!' and 'Hi Grandpa' were seen on TV.  We also got a visit from Fin, the Canucks Killer Whale Mascot.  We had a great time and the Canucks won the hockey game 4-3.

Happy Birthday Benjamin!

Benjamin had a pool party for his birthday with lots of friends.  We all had a great time.

Max Eats Watermelon

Irwin

Family Skate

Alexander Plays Soccer!

The New Truck

Summer at the Cottage

Happy Birthday Jonathan

Happy 3rd birthday Jonathan!  We had a great party to celebrate Jonathan and Thanksgiving.

The Last Finisher

Dave was on the medical team and helped the last finisher to the line.

Not a bad day for Running

The Medal

Striding for the Finish!

The Marathon

Bowen Island

Hiking on Bowen

The Big 5 on Bowen Island

Five of us hiked Mt Gardner on Bowen Island and took the Big 5 along for the day (see my hat).

Bowen Island

A wonderful Sunday trip over to Bowen Island to hike Mt Gardner guided by our urban hiking guru David Adams.

On the trail we ran into David and Harry Crerar. As it happened we had just had a discussion about David and his challenge to the running community to bag the local peaks:

http://www.clubfatass.com/events/bagger-challenge-2009

David congratulated us on bagging our first peak. He's up to 22 of 32 local peaks meeting the challenge criteria in a bit more than two months.