Lorie, Jim, Zak, and Sam came out to try out their new boat. Jim did a fabulous restoration job on it.
Spencer and Kevin had great fun tubing, and Laura had many friends out - including her work group from the local theater.
Spencer and Zak
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| Nitinat | Chris's 50th | Dad's Tigermoth |
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Lots of friends came to visit this summer. Short and no wind :<( ... but it was generally pretty nice so lots of water
skiing, wake boarding, and tubing :<).
Lorie, Jim, Zak, and Sam came out to try out their new boat. Jim did a fabulous restoration job on it. Spencer and Kevin had great fun tubing, and Laura had many friends out - including her work group from the local theater. |
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| Jim and Lorie - Nice Boat! | Sam Tubing!! |
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Spencer and Kevin - No Hands!! |
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| Spencer and Devon in Devon's boat! | Cousin Devon Wakeboarding - Lake Isle |
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| Ted Sailing | Paulette driving their new Wakeboard Boat! |
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Our friends Lorie and Jim hosted Canada Day again. Lorie organized some Crafty Painting to create Canada Day Towels. A big water fight again. Good thing we had the motorhome so a fresh change of clothes. A great day - good food - good friends - lots of fun.
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Jim - BB'Q Master! |
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| Pepere showed up with a load of lumber one day and announced that we were going to remove the old dog house and construct a small deck. Spencer and Ted helped - it looks great! Thanks Pepere!! |
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Every year we go to Nitinat lake for our summer
holiday. It is in the Old Growth Rain Forests on Vancouver
Island. Very pretty, but also very basic - no services. It is a
great windsurfing place as the wind comes up almost every day at noon and
blows about 40kph until dark.
As there are no formal campsites, everyone just sort of parks. When the weather is good and the campsite gets crowded everyone is sort of on top of each other - with many informal campsites on the road, or even the walkway to the outhouse. |
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In spite of all this, everyone seems to get along, and
has a lot of fun. All the windsurf gear is left on the
beach each night - ready for the next day's sailing.
The weather is usually quite cool - but this year we had many sunny warm days. It seems like we know almost everyone in the campsite. We have many friends that we see there every year. With Laura graduating this year - I'm not sure how many more years we will be able to go with the whole family, but the plan is to return in 2007.
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Some of our Nitinat Friends Ted, Spencer, Louise, Scott, Carolyn, Caitlyn, Jen, Tim (with Quinn on top), Val, & Laura |
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| Caitlyn, Laura and Quinn | Caitlyn windsurfing |
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| Laura, Caitlyn and Spencer - one of many campfires! | Friends Carolyn and Michelle |
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| Friends Ian, Sheila, and Judy | Jen, Mardi, and Carolyn |
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| Judy sailing with daughter Zoe | Judy - stoked! |
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| Laura - waiting for the ferry to leave | Mark - planing in almost no wind..... |
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| Another Campfire - Jessica, Sheila, Caitlyn, Spencer and Owen | Peter - taking a break! |
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| Owen and Toni | Quinn |
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| Ted, Quinn and Val | Rhegan and Jon - in "the Caves" |
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| Rhegan - Performing in the Forest! | Zoe and Robin - adding embers to the eyes of the wind god |
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| Sheila | Sheila windsurfing |
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| Tim - carving another perfect Jibe | Val - stealing Tim's board! |
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| Zoe and Caitlyn |
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Caving Expedition Spencer, Rhegan, Laura, Caitlyn, Zoe (Front), Jessica (Back), Mia, Robin, Toni, Owen |
Chris's 50 Birthday Party --- <Click Here for more photos of Chris's 50th>
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| Chris getting a Shave for this 50th Birthday | Scottie, Carrie, Chris and Grandson Hayden |
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| Fall 2006 | Assembly - all 4 wings must be attached each time. |
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| Liam's new Cesna 182 - Fly-in Breakfast 06 | Kathy with Maza - Airshow Weekend |
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| Louise, Lorie and Laura at Rabbit Hill | Sam taking a break! |
Japanese Exchange - Nagisa and Nagi
In October, the local high school hosted some Japanese students. Nagisa and Nari stayed at our house for 4 nights. They were wonderful girls. Unfortunately they did not speak English, and we don't speak Japanese. We had a lot of fun trying to communicate. They were impressed with how cold it was when we had our camp fire (-5). Because of their very busy schedule with the high school, we didn't get to tour them around much. We did take them to West Edmonton Mall on their last night. Even talked Nari into riding the roller coaster! I hope they had fun at our house. We sure enjoyed their stay.
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| Nagisa, Laura and Nari - Welcome to Camrose | Nagisa and Nari - Campfire |
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| Nari and Nagisa | Laura, Nari, Spencer and Nagisa |
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| Nari | Laura and Nari - heading for the West Edmonton Mall Rollercoaster | Nagisa |
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| Nari | WEM Roller Coaster |
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<For more Japan Photo's - click here>
