The madness will continue into April. All these trips and events break the time up nicely but make me feel broken up when it comes to finding my priorities. Last weekend was Easter weekend and I wanted to make Noah my priority for at least a while before more madness continued.
We watched Death to Smoochy and both found it an incredible movie. Yes it was a little overly dramatic, but it was better than boring. We loved the comic book style play of colour and shadows.
On Saturday we drove up to Whistler for lunch (no skiing this year, maybe learn next). It was quite dreary and cold outside but there was a local cafe there that made an amazing mocha that kept me toasty and warm. I hope to come back some day when the sun does that for me.
On the way up there was a 20 minute wait on the road, a bus had driven into the ditch. I felt really bad for all the people that would have been on that bus. Then I felt even worse for the bus driver (assuming he was sober) as all those people were probably quite upset with him.
The drive up was still breathtaking for me. I’m used to the mountains, but was amazed by the drive along the water, with the islands north of Vancouver in the distance. The fog made it surreal.

On the way back down the sun started to peak out from the clouds as it was setting. Noah had some great tunes going on and I felt really at peace. Just enjoying the drive, the day, what was around me and how lucky I was to be there.


That night we went to The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou again with Adam, Jeannine, and Adam’s cousin John. Afterwards we played this great little board game, Carcassone. It was fairly easy to pick up but was challenging enough in the amount of strategical effort you could put in. I recommend it. Although I recommend most of everything that I put in here. I should start talking about things that I recommend not seeing / doing / going to.
Anyway, it’s time for me to get on a bus. Today I’m going to a workshop on getting back on track with my thesis (yikes!). I hope I can get something from it because I feel way to busy to be going to these workshops now. I’m leaving for Portland on Saturday morning and have a lot of packing to do before then. Hopefully I will blog blog blog everyday while I’m there.