Whitewood Beach
Sundaes on the Deck
Let's go back to Sunday now shall we...
It was super nice out in Nanaimo, so we decided to head to the beach. There is a lake just within Nanaimo called 'Westwood Lake'. It was so pretty with huge trees, you would never know you were in a city. There were lifeguards on duty and a nice area roped off for swimming. the beach was nice as well with lots of sand, and the total beach was probably 100 yards along the shore. The water was quite cold, yikes, but we had fun. Our oldest even swam out ot the anchored raft with Dad, even though she "...couldn't see the bottom of the lake!", she said.
Our youngest was super exhausted afterwards so Dad took the older 2 to "Brave" the new Disney movie. Sounded like a great thing to do...except for the massive scary bear in the movie that freaked them out!
It wouldn't have freaked them out as badly if they hadn't seen bears in the wild a couple days earlier. The evil bear followed them to Sooke a few days later where we learnt "...there are more bears here than anywhere else in BC."
Terrifying bear movie while in bear country....Good one Dad!
We cooked a super BBQ supper of chicken, hot dogs, asparagus, corn on the cob, and then made sundaes with homemade chocolate sauce, gummy bears and reeses pieces for dessert.
We tucked the kids in early to bed so that we would be ready for Victoria and Sooke in the morning!
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Then with everyone asleep Mom and Dad enjoyed some wine we had found on our way through Kelowna. If we both loved wine, instead of just liking it, we would have had more than the one bottle, because it was a great evening to sit on the deck and watch the ferry do it's thing in the Nanaimo harbour.
