My First Family Reunion

This past labour day was a whirlwind of travel and people.

On Friday I said goodbye to my kitties and my San Diego apartment and flew up to Vancouver, BC.  I met up with my immediately family there for dinner and slept over before we took off on Saturday.

Saturday morning started out a little later than we had hoped.  I ran into the coffee pot with coffee that was already brewed… that is not a normal occurance for me since I’ve been living on my own for a while and I blame it for my 30 minute break on the couch before getting ready for the day.

My sister and I then took off for our very first road trip together.  We were doing pretty well until we hit some absolutely horrible traffic,  we were absolutely stopped not even crawling.  While we were trying to figure out what to do we turned on the radio to see if they had any news and sure enough the #1 Highway was closed due to a massive accident.

This caused us quite the dilema and we deliberated for a while until my sister had a revelation.  Somewhere not too far in our past we had made a wrong turn.  We weren’t on the highway at all but in the line for the US/Canada border crossing, which was of course insanely long due to the holiday weekend.  It also turned out we wanted to take the #5 not the #1 so the highway closure didn’t affect us at all.

So off we went up to our first stop, a quick visit with our Grandparents in Chilliwack.  We only got about 30 minutes there as we had a long drive ahead of us even if we stayed on the right roads.

The one thing I found out on this trip was that I had forgotten how absolutely gorgeous BC is.  We got up to Salmon Arm and stayed in a very nice Inn accross from Shuswap lake.

While I was searching for some pictures to give the area justice I came accross this website that had some nice ones:

http://www.worldisround.com/articles/19098/index.html

I got to meet up with family I hadn’t seen in ages and met some new ones that had married into our family since the last time I had been up there.  We had dinner and chatted and looked at pictures, all in all a very nice experience.

The next morning was breakfast and then we hit the road to head back to Maple Ridge where I spent the night and hopped on the plane the next day to fly back to San Diego!

I think that’s more traveling than I’ve ever done in one weekend and before I left I was really leery about the whole thing, but I am absolutely sure that I’d do it again to get to spend time with family!