Winter Highways & Playgrounds

It has been a while since our last post and though we haven’t leapt the Pacific Ocean, yet, we have been finished work for 2 weeks and enjoying our time in beautiful British Columbia.

Lots of driving!

From Prince George, our first stop was in Merritt (country music capital of Canada) for Bryn’s highly anticipated 30th birthday and Christmas. After a few nights there, we drove to Nelson making sure that we stopped in Grand Forks for a visit with the Grey family.

Mitch, Bryn, Tatum, Robyn, Matt & Summer (not shown: Meow Mix & Tucker)

Nelson—more accurately, South Slocan—entailed getting all the Bourne’s together for a nice dinner and working on puzzles with a few beverages.  Additionally, we took advantage of the time off to get some more travel necessities in order.

And just because we could, we decided to make a trip to Fernie to meet up with Eden Lin and Spencer Bourne for New Year’s Eve festivities, including an extreme snowshoe up Mount Fernie in extreme weather! The payoff was well worth the work. 

Breaking trail up Mount Fernie, through a chute. Spencer Bourne leading the way.

Since we had already come this far east, what was another hour and a half to meet the Lethbridge Nyeste’s for lunch. Wild to think that we’ll be gone for 6 months but it’s been longer than that since we’ve seen this bunch of beauties... and we forgot to get a picture!

After the long “scenic route” back to Nelson, we are enjoying some last opportunities to play in the snow and visit with friends and family, including superb dinners, games nights and some back-country riding.

Tomorrow, we are off to Armstrong. That’s all for now!

Bryn cooling off after a post-cross-country ski, hot tub.