The last three days...Canada, good bye. USA, hello.

From awesome David

We packed up all of our belongings, a little sad to leave Canada, a little anxious about our upcoming bobsled experience, and a little ready to settle in one place for a longer period of time. I was also looking forward to catch up with friends again - we realised that we'd not had others to have a decent conversation with for our entire time in Canada.

After Eliza and I went sliding, we picked up Jane and the boys and began the journey back to Vancouver. The drive went so quickly, and we found a beautiful lunch place overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It is such a great coastal highway drive. 

Once we hit the city traffic, we slowed down considerably. It took such a long time to get into the city centre, and we got caught by a few one way streets; but we were able to drop the car off by the required time and begin our trek with all of our luggage to the train station.

After arriving at the Pacific Central train terminal, we waited to be processed and found getting through customs relatively easy. It's a little disconcerting to think that the US now have all of our fingerprints on file! We climbed on board the Amtrak to Seattle, WA and began our journey south into the US of A.

Late evening over Mud Bay, Canada

Sunset over Bellingham, WA

Jane and the boys on the Amtrak (all wearing their Whistler t-shirts)

It was great to have Jeremy and Barb waiting at the Edmunds stop for us, and to feel welcomed into their house for the next while. It's going to be a friendly introduction to the US.

From Splendid Eliza

On Friday Dad and Me went Bobsledding. Before we left I was so scared out of my life. Before we went anywhere we went into a room where the merchandise was and where you signed in. Then we went into a bus and went to a building where we watched a slide-show and then  we got helmet fittings. After this we watched some of the other people do the Bobsledding.

Team CDE (Crow, David & Eliza) after the bobsledding

From spectacular Jonty

On Saturday we went out on the boat with the Tantrum family, and I had the important job of putting the fenders (we called them 'marshmallows') out off the side of the boat whenever we came into dock, and pulling them in when we were leaving the docks. I had to wear a life-jacket whenever I was on the deck.

By amazing Logan
Over the last few days we have spent the time with the Tantrum family. They have six kids but only 4 live with them their names are Abigail, Nathan, Natalie and Miriam. The parents are Jeremy and Barbara. They also have 2 dogs Poppy and Daisy

Also we went kayaking.I fell in the water and it was scary.

From um, astonishing Jane

Jonty wrote something, but somehow it has disappeared. I will look again. Sorry for taking so long to update. It has been busy. Staying with a family has reminded us of how complicated it all is, having a real life. Finding time to do something like update the blog has been really hard.