Next Tuesday I leave North Carolina and fly to the spectacular Pacific Northwest and Canada.......................cooler weather and mountain vistas will be welcomed! We always take our "traveling Granddaughter" on a Summer adventure - this one will bring her number of countries visited to six. Not bad for a ten year old! She's a great traveler and we love to take her along. She keeps a journal on our trips - last year she did a great one while in France and Spain. I make a scrapbook of our trip when we get home so she will always have a special book of memories to keep.
This trip will take us to Seattle, Bainbridge Island, Olympic Peninsula, Victoria B.C., through the San Juan Islands by ferry, Vancouver B.C., Bellingham and back to Seattle. I have done this trip several times with DH and every time has been memorable. Washington State is such a beautiful part of the USA and going to Canada is a little like going home to England for me. I really love Victoria, seeing the Empress Hotel as the ferry pulls into the harbor, and all those shops selling British goods! Vancouver is a great city - plenty to do and so beautiful.
I'm especially excited to be visiting Bellingham again as I now have a very special friend there and we are planning what I know will be a fun get together. We met by mail just a year ago, yes good old fashioned snail mail, after I ordered a beautiful handmade box containing Haiku poems she had written. We discovered we had similar interests and continued a pen pal type friendship, exchanging dozens of handmade cards and envelopes, small art projects, scrap items, rubber stamps, books on the written word - which we both adore, and surprise packages with little gifts (see my post from March 6, 2007 ~ The Waiting Game). Granddaughter and I will get to see her amazing studio and perhaps find time to work on some craft projects - the DH's can shoot the breeze, talk about their respective international travels, and right the wrongs of the world.
This trip will take us to Seattle, Bainbridge Island, Olympic Peninsula, Victoria B.C., through the San Juan Islands by ferry, Vancouver B.C., Bellingham and back to Seattle. I have done this trip several times with DH and every time has been memorable. Washington State is such a beautiful part of the USA and going to Canada is a little like going home to England for me. I really love Victoria, seeing the Empress Hotel as the ferry pulls into the harbor, and all those shops selling British goods! Vancouver is a great city - plenty to do and so beautiful.I'm especially excited to be visiting Bellingham again as I now have a very special friend there and we are planning what I know will be a fun get together. We met by mail just a year ago, yes good old fashioned snail mail, after I ordered a beautiful handmade box containing Haiku poems she had written. We discovered we had similar interests and continued a pen pal type friendship, exchanging dozens of handmade cards and envelopes, small art projects, scrap items, rubber stamps, books on the written word - which we both adore, and surprise packages with little gifts (see my post from March 6, 2007 ~ The Waiting Game). Granddaughter and I will get to see her amazing studio and perhaps find time to work on some craft projects - the DH's can shoot the breeze, talk about their respective international travels, and right the wrongs of the world. We girls just wanna have fun!!!!!
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This sounds like a wonderful trip, lucky grand-daughter! My husband has been to Vancouver and sais it's a fabulous city, it was a business trip so I didn't get to go. Maybe one day though. Hope you all have a great time anyway.
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ReplyDeleteThis time it's me catching up with your posts. Love the pic of the firefly - hadn't seen one before and didn't realise they were so pretty. It's exciting to hear about your trip. We too are heading to Vancouver later this year. I've been before but my husband and parents haven't so it will be great to all go together. We will see Victoria too and then plan to go north to Jasper and do all those sights. We go 11 weeks tomorrow, not that I'm excited or anything!!
Mary I am so envious! We lived for three years in Corvallis, OR. During that time I spent many a day in Washington on photo shoots. It is such an amazingly gorgeous world out that way. I'm so happy for your granddaughter to have this opportunity. Have a wonderful trip, time with your friend, and I can hardly wait to see photos and hear all about it. xoxo
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful time! I've never been out to the Pacific Northwest. Would love to see that area of North America.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter and her fiance have an Alaskan Cruise scheduled for their Honeymoon. I know that will be a gorgeous trip!
Pat
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Hello Mary, Just wanted to stop in and ask that you please keep Amy (FourSistersInACottage) in your prayers today. She is having a radical bilateral mastectomy surgery.
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Mary, I went to college (1st two years) in Bellingham! I lived in Seattle for many years before moving to NYC. It's a wonderful city - so much to do and see. Sounds like a fun trip and I can't wait to hear about when you get back. I haven't been back in almost 20 years!
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Sounds like an amazing holiday! Victoria is absolutely gorgeous ... Have a wonderful time!
ReplyDeleteI loved your comment about Canada being a little bit like England!
ReplyDeleteI do my part in the little Village of Matsqui, just minutes from the US border to bring a taste of England into my home and decor, and lifestyle.
Enjoy your trip, and enjoy Victoria, my favorite place!