Maple Ridge, BC, Canada - 10th October 2010
By: AbbyB
It's time to harvest the grapes in the garden. We all came out to help.
After playing for a while, Abby said that we were there to help, not supervise, and I was put to work.
It took a while, but I think we did a good job.
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Posted Oct 11, 2010, 3:49 am
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Maple Ridge, BC, Canada - 10th October 2010
By: AbbyB
As you may know, Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in October. It's not really a huge deal here, but, as one of Abby's professors said, 'Thanksgiving is the only day of the year where every single Canadian eats the same thing for dinner.' This is mostly true. Usually there is a turkey, but they take forever to cook and nobody like turkey here anyway, so there was chicken, along with potatoes, brussel sprouts, stuffing and candied yams.
I took some of everything.
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Posted Oct 15, 2010, 4:26 am
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Vancouver, BC, Canada - 17th October 2010
By: AbbyB
Abby is working on a project for school that is based in New Brighton Park in a back corner of Vancouver, so I tagged along to see the park. In the 19th century there was a hotel (also home to Vancouver's first post office) and a number of other buildings here, and it was also called 'End of the Line' because this was the end of the stagecoach line from downtown Vancouver. In the latter half of the 19th century, this is where all the best people in Vancouver vacationed. None of this exists anymore and nobody is sure where the hotel actually stood, but it was nice to visit the park anyway.
This monument says:
Here Vancouver Began
All was forest towering to the skies. British Royal Engineers surveyed it into lots, 1863, and named the area "Hastings Townsite" to honour Admiral Hastings, British Navy.
Everything Began At Hastings
The first post office, customs, road, bridge, hotel, stable, telegraph, dock, ferry, playing field, museum, C.P.R Offices (Canadian Pacific Railway). It was the most fashionable watering place in British Columbia.
New Brighton Park
Retains the name of a hotel built here in 1880 known as the new "Brighton House"
The park is rather large, and it has some nice views.
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Posted Oct 25, 2010, 6:35 am
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Maple Ridge, BC, Canada - 2nd November 2010
By: AbbyB
A new TV has arrived, Bussi who is travelling along the WWTVT.
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Posted Nov 4, 2010, 3:01 am
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Maple Ridge, BC, Canada - 25th December 2010
By: AbbyB
Everyone was invited to Christmas dinner, which consisted of turkey, potatoes, stuffing (made with quinoa), brussel sprouts, candied yams, Grand Marnier cranberry sauce and gravy.
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Posted Jan 2, 2011, 9:18 pm
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