Family Trip to Pender

It was a late Thanksgiving dinner, but it was worth the wait. On Tuesday, we packed up and left at 7 am to catch the ferry to Pender Island to visit Colin and Carol. It had been such a hectic rush for the couple of days previous that we didn’t exactly calculate our time correctly to get to the ferry at the heart of morning rush hour. The good news was that the 8:35 ferry was running ten minutes late, so we were the third-to-last car on. Whew! 🙂

We had a good visit, and went to the little shopping center on the island where we found a few odds and ends and makings for lunch. I found one of the Cobble Hill Puzzles family puzzles at the toy store. They are great. Tammy found the African safari one at the local People’s Drug Mart of all places last year. This one is the dolphins and the sunken sailing ship. Score!

Tammy and Carol went to the Poet’s Cove Spa for a couple of hours in the afternoon. I kept an eye on Ian while he napped, and Colin took Miranda out for a hike.

We brought yams, stuffing (ye olde Judson family recipe) and pumpkin pie. After supper, Ian went down to sleep pretty easily and Tammy and I headed over to the Sunshine Hills Bed and Breakfast, a place run by an elderly Dutch couple. It was our second stay at a B & B, and it was pretty good. Lots of entertaining knick knacks around, and the breakfast (cold) was just right. Thanks to Colin and Carol for putting us up there. They had good luck: Ian and Miranda both slept like angels and let them sleep well past seven.

Today was a walk along one of the trails near their house, a visit with a little boy Leif and his mom Jo Jo who live around the corner, before heading out to the ferry at 2:30. A ferry ride (Ian walking around and around and around the ferry) later and we stopped for Wendy’s before dropping Miranda and me off at the dojo for her karate lesson. Was certainly lots of stuff packed into a couple of days.