Semiahmoo Resort to celebrate 45 years together

Semiahmoo Resort is in Blaine, Washington, just over the US/Canadian border

The view from our third floor room

Just one of the things to do on the resort

Natural walking paths and LOTS of sea birds

45th wedding anniversary

Indoor/outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, steam room, spa .........

Carpets made from recycled fishing nets

Lots of upgrades

Beautiful sunset looking across the bay to Canada

Happy anniversary gift from the hotel

Camping at Lightning Lake, Manning Park

Coming from the West on Highway #1, after Hope take Highway 3 and drive 50 kms until you reach Manning Park Resort. Turn right and follow the directions to reach Lightning Lake.

Driving distance from Vancouver: 240 km (150 mi)
Driving time from Vancouver: Approx. 3 hours

We took our annual family camping trip to Manning Park and stayed at Lightning Lakes Campground.

Truck, trailer and kayak ready to roll

We took the grandkid/dogs

Basie helped out with the talk on trees in the amphitheatre 

Jen and Dante enjoying the show

Jen, Basie and I took the free alpine interpretive walk

Beautiful view up here

Having a snack after the hike

Jen, Basie and Bonnie enjoying the view

View of Manning Lodge

Basie and Doe

Bridge on Lightning Lake

Family hike around the lake

Jen, Dante and Aggie

Enjoyed the hiking

A couple of days in Whistler

We stayed at the Pan Pacific Mountainside for 2 nights in July.

This is a view from our window. In the winter this would be covered with snow but now it is covered with mountain mountainbikers.

We took the peak2peak gondola ride and the weather in July on the top of Whistler wasn't summerlike like.

We waited for the silver gondola to view the valley floor through the glass floor.

This is the view of the valley floor through the glass floor.

The regular gondolas are red. We didn't stand in line for the glass bottom gondola on the return.

There is good food at a good price in Whistler Village

Costa Rica and Panama trip coming soon

Three days in San Francisco

Do not put nail polish on while you are in an airplane! It smells and is highly flammable. Bad passenger, bad!

My sister, niece and I shared an AirBnB apartment in the Castro/Haight area for our 3 day stay in San Francisco.

Had to see the Painted Ladies. We climbed the hill during the day on Valentine's Day and found an communal art project propped against a tree, so we contributed.

Buy some cheese toast here

Took a free tour of the Ferry Building and then walked around the markets both inside and out. Loved the Zeppole doughnuts and butter caramel dip.

They melt the cheese and then scrape it onto the bread.

The three of us shared this plate.

We ate our way around San Francisco.

The largest Chinatown outside of Asia. I would like to have found the fortune cookie factory but couldn't. Next time I will make better plans to find the place.

We picked up ingredients for dinner at the market and took it back to the apartment.

We found our dessert at the Cheesecake Factory on the 8th floor of Macy's. The place was packed so we opted for take-out.

We walked up the hill overlooking the Painted Ladies and watched a fire develop below.

Had to go see what the fire was all about.

We made a pit stop at this church on our way to the Mosaic Steps. 

We found them!

And we walked them

Second set of steps

After the third set of steps we made it to the top.

Visited and walked on the Golden Gate Bridge

View of the ocean