A Vancouver Vacation

So we had a little time off work last week and ended up with a four- day weekend...so we decided to take a 'road trip'! We had never seen the new Vancouver Temple so off we went to see it.

We took the scenic route over to Vancouver, stopping first in Jasper on Thursday night. Friday morning, we drove into Wells Gray Provincial Park and thoroughly loved the waterfalls that were so spectacular they almost have the same magic as Niagara Falls. We continued on to Whistler and spent Friday night there.

Saturday morning we took the chair lift up the mountain to overlook the Vancouver area from the top of the ski resort. We didn't take our skis, just our camera and what an amazing mountain range! It was so beautiful and so worth the drive just to be in the mountains again! We saw that the mountains in BC are as magnificent as the ones in Alberta!

That afternoon we had booked a session at the Vancouver Temple, so we had to leave Whistler and head down the coast to Surrey, just south of Vancouver. We managed to arrive at the temple in time to attend our 2:10 session, but we had a hard time concentrating on the session because the temple is so absolutely beautiful! Many special details and open spaces and bright windows! Doug and I agreed that it is probably the most beautiful Temple we have been in.

We stayed in Surrey that evening, and loved the warm weather, going out to dinner and a movie. (Battleship...I liked it but Doug was skeptical). We were up early and went to church there the next morning, meeting up with an old friend from our ward, Karen Davis, she and her family had moved out there 17 years ago! it was fun to visit and catch up on the news about her family.

After church we headed home, taking a different route and enjoying all the beautiful mountains and rivers that we were driving by. We stopped on the way home to visit with Doug's cousin Rita Butts and her husband Bruce. They were at their cabin in Sycamous for the long weekend and had invited us to stop in, we had a fun visit. It was rainy, so we couldn't really enjoy our little convertible with the roof down, but we still enjoyed the beautiful drive. We carried on, and stayed in Revelstoke Sunday evening.

Monday morning we arose to more rain in Revelstoke, but as we got closer to Alberta and farther from the coast the weather started to improve. We drove through Banff without even stopping because we were heading to Jon and Tiffy's to see our grandkids! We had a great visit, went out to dinner loved those cute little grand babies and then we off for home!

On our way home we stopped at the cabin to check on the state of the tree-cutting and discovered that all of the 24 trees had been cut down. It looked a tornado had been through there! We certainly have our work cut out for us this next few weeks cleaning up the yard!

It was a wonderful weekend road trip to Vancouver!