{Christmas in Vancouver Part 2}

Nathan & Jared

I have no problem with my girls being boy crazy when it comes to these two!

I had to add this picture cause Jon's cousins Nathan & Jared were so cute with the girls. They played and took care of them constantly just because they loved them. The Soll Family are such wonderful people. Bennie is the Stake President up there and their children all turned out so wonderful. I kept asking Jacqui the secret to raising such wonderful righteous kids and she would just laugh modestly (of course).

{GRANDMA'S SCENIC PATH}

Right outside the apartments there is beautiful wooden walk way. I have to say one of my favorite things about Vancouver is everywhere you go it's beautiful. It really is one of the most beautiful places.

{MAKING OUR WAY THROUGH GASTOWN}

"The Station"

"Steam Clock"

Underneath Vancouver, Canada there runs a series of Steam tunnels with some of the

tunnels apparently large enough to walk in. Running under major streets you can look down onto these tunnels through long grates in the sidewalk.

It is these steam tunnels, which heat much of downtown Vancouver, which power the steam clock. It is one of the world's few functioning steam clocks.

Each quarter hour, the two ton Steam Clock shows off a bit by whistling and shooting steam from the top. We were walking right by it when it started shooting steam and whistling. It was pretty cool I have to say.

There are only six working Steam Clock in the whole World.

{12th ANNUAL BRIGHT NIGHTS IN STANLEY PARK}

The Soll's couldn't spoil us more. They also treated us to a Greek Dinner and The Bright Nights at Stanley Park. They are so wonderful to us. We hope one day we can share the same generosity that they have shown us. It just may be a while is all. It is amazing the whole park is decked out with lights then they have a petting zoo and then the best thing of all is you get on a train and ride around looking at more lights and it's not just a 5 minute ride it's long and very enjoyable. You can only imagine how many lights there were. It was so beautiful and we had great weather that night. It's a must do during the Holidays in Vancouver.

{GINGERBREAD CONTEST}

Every year I tell myself that I want to attempt an amazing Gingerbread house and enter it into a contest. Haven't done that but I will. My favorite thing to do in Vancouver is to see the Gingerbread Contest. It's amazing. The details are crazy good. Just check it out for yourself.

I had everyone take a turn and stand by their favorite Gingerbread House. Here are our winners . . .

A few other pictures

{CHRISTMAS EVE}

{CHRISTMAS DAY}

Uncle Brendan

Christmas we met at the church and had dinner there. It was really fun and Jacqui did a great job decorating the gym. It's tradition in their family to buy cracker set and where your hats throughout the party. My girls absolutely loved it.

{CHRISTMAS DRESSES}

{SCIENCE WORLD}

The biggest reason why we bought a season pass to the Lied's Discovery Museum was so we can get into this Science Museum for FREE! Admission for our family here is worth more then our season pass. Let's say we had fun like always here!

{BELGIAN FRIES}

On the way to the Museum This resturant caught my eye. Anyone who knows me well knows that FRENCH FRIES ARE MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE! So after the Museum we were all hungry and Jon suggest with my request that we should stop and try it out.

IT WAS SO YUMMY!

Their were too many choices to choose from. It's one of those resturants where you want to go with tons of friends and everyone orders something different and everyone shares what they got.

A MUST EAT IN VANCOUVER

Belive you me I will be back!