Trip to Canada

We finally took a vacation out of the country! All the way to Canada. We were excited to go with Grandma and Grandpa Tracy to Telegraph Cove, British Columbia for a week of fishing and sight-seeing. We spent just over a week up there and it was lots of fun. We traveled with my brother Jeff, his wife Julie, and his two daughters Kaylie and Ashley. Kaleb loved having friends to play with the entire vacation.

Right after we arrived in Telegraph Cove, Kaleb and Kaylie headed out to find Paca's boat.



Grandma and Paca with the kids on the boat.


No more than an hour after arriving we found a mother bear and her 2 cubs, here is some video I took while Joelle and I were less than 50 feet away. We left the kids back with Paca for obvious reasons.



Kaleb found all sorts of cool sea creatures, here we are with a star fish.


Early one morning, Joelle and I went out crabbing, this was so fun, you just take your stick, poke it in the seaweed or mud and if you are lucky up will pop a ticked off crab!

Joelle has crabs! :0


...and now we both do. (that does NOT sound right)


Sometimes we'd see Dall's Porpoises and if we got near them, they'd come over to our boat and play. It was amazing to watch, here is some awesome video I got of them flying all around us.



We would also frequently see Killer Whales and sometimes they'd pop up very close to the boat so we had to be very careful. Here are a couple of pictures of the Orcas.




The fishing was a bit slow, but we still had a good time catching the fish that we did. Here I am with a 20 pound halibut I caught.


Kaleb loved being on the boat.


The scenery was amazing.




There was a rusty old truck on the boardwalk that Kaleb thought was Mater from the movie Cars. He loved talking to it, but it never talked back.


Here we are at the little General Store in Telegraph Cove.


Eventually it was time to head home. We drove to the south end of Victoria island, took the ferry boat back to the mainland and drove back to Seattle. While crossing the border Kaleb wanted to take a picture by the flag made out of flowers.


That night we stayed in Seattle and decided to go to a Mariners game! Kaleb learned a good lesson on the way to the game. We parked in a lot near the stadium that was behind a warehouse. While walking to the stadium a seagull walked about 10 feet in front of us all the way around the building. He kept looking back to see if we were there and he refused to fly away. As we approached the cross-walk he wandered out toward the road, a car saw it and honked, the bird was startled and ran into the next lane over and it was then that we witnessed the best hit of the night. It wasn't by a baseball player, but by a black Acura. Did you know that when seagulls are run over by a car they pop like a balloon? Poor seagull. Kaleb stood there not knowing what to think, so we used it as a teaching opportunity, Never run into the street or you end up like the seagull.

On to the stadium! Safeco Field is beautiful, here we are out front.


Kaleb met the mascot Moose.


The next day we flew home from Seattle and we stopped in to see the progress on our house. The prep work for the stucco was done and the dry-wall was in. It's coming along quickly. The picture below is with the stucco wire on the house, I drove by today and the gray layer of stucco is on the house, but I didn't have the camera.



Anyway, it was a fun and very much needed trip. We had a great time in a beautiful place and saw some amazing things.