A more personal update

So I realize that this blog has gotten a bit political lately. Let's face it, there's no way to escape politics in the next two weeks! And seeing that Jaime and I consider ourselves fairly politically informed (we like to think so, anyway) it's only natural that we would feel inclined to share our opinions on everything.

So here is a real blog post, about us! I know I keep complaining that we're just too busy to try and keep up, but I'll do my best -

We had a wonderful opportunity to catch bro in law Joe playing volleyball at the University of British Columbia two weekends ago. Plus it had been a while since Jaime and I had taken a road trip. So after learning late Friday night that Joe's game was at 1pm, and not 3 like originally planned, we sped out of the city on a Beautiful Saturday morning. Fortunately there wasn't much of a wait at the border, and we promptly arrived at UBC. Joe was busy with practice, so we walked around campus for a bit, and then headed back for the game. Let me just say, there are WAY more rules to college volleyball than I ever thought, and it's a very fast paced game. It was nice to be able to provide a little spirit for the Tigers, and Joe put on a good show. Unfortunately they lost this set 3-2, but later beat the University of Hawaii 3-2 as well!

We spent a bit of time wandering around the Kitsilano neighborhood. Our funniest moment of the trip was when Jaime discovered a cute little marketplace that we stopped in - as we began looking around, I noticed that the labels on merchandise looked an awful lot like the Whole Foods labels. Low and behold, Capers is the Canuck version of Whole Foods. Oh well. Sorry Jaime, had to share.

After a quick stop at a Canadian winery, and a 90 minute wait to get back in the States (where apparently I sounded like a Canadian to the Border Patrol agent) we met up with Courtney and Dan at their house in Bellingham for dinner. It was an absolute blast to spend some time with them as we haven't seen them in months!!! Thanks again for dinner, guys, and hopefully we'll see you again soon!

Sunday dad Jim was in town, so we of course had lunch at Spuds, visited some open houses, and had a wonderful dinner at Ray's Boathouse. Thanks again, Jim!