Remembrance Day

We had a great laugh at this!

Today was "Remembrance Day" in Canada; Veteran's Day in the U.S.  Everyone was on holiday and we were going to head to Seattle for a long weekend.  However, I was talking to a friend and she was like, Uh, you know everyone will be on the road right?  That's all she had to say to change our plans.  I'm not trying to sit in the car for 3 hours just to cross the border, which should only take 45 minutes.  We'll have to reschedule for another time, when people are working!

Instead, we headed to Stevenston Village, a fisherman's marina in Richmond, B.C.  We had a great time in this very cute village and dined on some fish n chips, of course.  The fishing boats line up each day on the dock and sell salmon, tuna, shrimp and crabs right off their boats.  I love it.

Then, we went up to North Vancouver while the kids napped in the car and found the Salmon Hatchery, which is where the salmon are trying to swim upstream.  It is very similar to the facility in Seattle, which I went to awhile back.  Always very interesting to see and I recommend everyone to check something like this out one day.

When the kids woke up, we headed to the Vancouver Aquarium. Julian didn't know where to run between the jelly fish, dolphin show and beluga whale.  It was a great time.

This had to be the most eventful Veteran's Day / Remembrance Day I've ever had in my life!