Monday, February 6, 2012

New Years 2011

We did a variety of things over New Years holiday here in Vancouver...

New Years morning demonstration of how to effectively utilize every surface of a couch!

Owen had his friends Noah and Roman come over and they built an impressive geotrax layout.  Ok, I helped a little with layering the ramps, but they came up with the general idea...  A few strategically placed guardrails to keep all the trains on the tracks and they played for hours...
 

New Years dinner at our friends Greg & Anita's house.  Here's the gang deep in conversation with their party crowns on.

A short movie captured attention for a little while...

Jenga time!

Molly and Allison crashed when we got home, but Owen stayed up until midnight and watched the "ball drop" with me.  He was so excited to do this and thankfully slept in a little on New Years day.  :)

New Years day was the last day for the Canyon lights at Capilano Suspension bridge... so we went over and beat most of the crowd early in the evening.  They had lights everywhere, including the whole treetop adventure area, which was quite pretty.  This is the main entrance from the parking lot.


The bridge itself was lit the entire span. 

Me and the crazy snowbirds...

January 2nd, we visited the Vancouver Aquarium in the afternoon...  They recently re-opened an exhibit and had the boa-constrictor back on display.  Allison cringed at this, but Owen thought he was pretty cool.


Owen and Allison getting ready to watch the Polar Express 4D short movie!

Molly with her starfish

And when it got dark, we went over and rode the Stanley park train through the light exhibit they have set up during the holidays.  The kids really enjoyed this....




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