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Monday,
January 22, 2007: Yellowstone WY to Nelson, BC: Up early to be in the dining room when
breakfast started at 6:30, then out the slippery road from the park. Along the park road we saw a herd of bison
at the edge of the road, and then had to stop for a buck elk standing on the
road. Another one crossed just ahead
of us. The weather was deteriorating,
so we headed directly for Nelson. The
Interstate was fine to Coeur d’Alene, but going north the smaller roads were
a bit dicey [ horrible ] but we got to Nicole and Chris’s shortly after
dinner time. Chris was shoveling out
parking for us when we arrived, but their driveway was pretty heavy going. |
Tuesday,
January 23, 2007: Nelson, BC: Wonderful day
discovering how grown up and clever Somer is.
Both Nicole and Somer are suffering from a bad cold, so are laying
low. But Somer loves to read books and
is acquiring new words at a n amazing rate.
She loves to find our the names of things and then practice them. So Grandma Jan decided to work on “armpit”
with her. Sure enough she quickly
mastered the idea and the word. In the
afternoon Larry and Chris went out to Whitewater to enjoy the 8” of new
powder. [ great to ski in rather than drive through
the night before ]. Since we were still on Eastern time, it was
an early night. |
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Wednesday,
January 24, 2007: Nelson, BC: Nicole
still wasn’t feeling like being in a crowd, so Somer and Grandma Jan went to
Mother Goose Time at the Nelson Public Library. We met Amy and Gracie [ 1 ¾ yr ] and the
girls had a good time singing and playing and listening to a story. Afterwards we went to the Kootenay Bakery
for lunch, where Somer demonstrated her advanced soup-eating skills. Amy delivered us home. Meanwhile Larry were working on getting
the van out of the parking space and turned around facing out. In
the end Chris had to drag it out using his truck and climbing
rope. It proved to be impossible to
install the chains in the parking spot [ because the wheels were so deep in
snow ]. We saw deer around the house
just wandering and nibbling. |
Thursday,
January 25, 2007: Nelson, BC: Larry planned an early
departure to Rossland but was thwarted
by the driveway. The van simply
couldn’t do it, and eventually we had to get tow=truck to pull it out to the
main road. There he was off for a
couple of days of fun with Hugh and Maryetta at Red Mountain. Jan decided to learn to use the bread
maker. What fun to throw in a few
ingredients and have a fresh delicious loaf of bread 3 hours later! In the afternoon Nicole, Chris, Somer and
Jan went to the Nelson Recreation Complex for a swim and then to the Diner on
Baker St. for dinner. The swimming
facilities are great – several pools and a hot tub. Somer enjoyed riding the current in the
kiddies pool. The same complex has a
skating rink and after watching figure skaters for a bit, Somer chattered
about hockey for the rest of the evening. |
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Friday,
January 26, 2007; Nelson, BC: Larry
was enjoying his second day at Red and the rest of us took it a bit
easy. While Somer napped, Nicole and Jan walked to the point and on
to Taghum Beach to see the ducks. Of
course they were all at a distance, but we had binoculars so enjoyed watching
them. Larry was home for dinner and
hot-tubing. He prudently left the car
at Amy and Marcus’s. |
Saturday, January 27, 2007: Nelson, BC: We headed into Nelson for brunch at the “PEACE” restaurant and it was yummy as always. Then we headed for the museum to take in the Freshly Squeezed installation. It was really interesting and very informative, as well as being fun to look at. [ it was a study/demonstration of the process of design ] Somer enjoyed running around and looking at the parts at her eye level. The museum was terrific too with many well-presented materials and pictures of Nelson history. Somer enjoyed the Canoe and movies of fish and talked about them for days. |
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Sunday,
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Monday,
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A Small Glacier coming off Chris and Nicole’s Roof |