Snow in North Van

This last weekend, I made the trek back to North Van. The trip was mainly to meet my new kitty (see my previous post), but it was a particularly nice visit in all other aspects as well. It's always nice to see my friends and family back in North Van, and I had a lovely weekend of hanging out and watching movies and chatting with them in the comfort of the man-cave that is my basement in North Van. I also brought one of my roommates along with me, which was nice. She's from Saskatchewan, and had never been to North Van before. She loved it. Not only was she pleasantly surprised to see how warm, nice, and welcoming everyone was, but she was amazing by the mountains and big trees and overall prettiness of my home city. I'll be the first to admit it, sometimes I take North Van for granted. Although we were only there for a short time, seeing it with someone who was experiencing it for the first time gave me a warm fuzzy feeling of appreciation for the place I've lived basically my whole life. We even had a little bit of snow! Here are a few photos of a walk we took down to Twin Bridges (all photo cred goes to Laura!):

View down my street

End of Hyannis

Me and Chels. I look like a bear/boy because all my clothes were in the wash.

BESTIE.

No doubt about it, I love BC.

Hiking Up Mountains

Yesterday, my mom took my sister and me on a hike. Today, my body hurts.

We hiked up to Garibaldi Lake, which is about 9 kilometers each way. While it wasn't especially hard, it was a long hike, and took us about 5 hours all together. It was really gorgeous at the top (and cold as hell). Take a look at some of the photos I took (and check out the color of that water!):

Ready to go!

Dementors.

Feeding the birdies

This is my friend. His name is Jacques.

Hilary did not like the birds.

Dr. Seuss trees

We saw this on the way back. Can anyone explain it?