having a great time...till today

we have been having a great holiday in b.c. enjoying the weather and all the sites. we were in jasper for 2 days and the in-laws came which wasn't so bad. we then went for 2 days to clearwater, bc and hiked a whole bunch of trails to waterfalls and sites. it was beautiful. then we went to penticton for 3 days and had a blast. we took in the skateboard park (kids loved it), went jet skiing, took in orchard tours and the summerland sweets tour (love their products) and camped in an orchard. today we are in vancouver for the next 4 days. we are planning to go to stanley park, the vr aquarium, see china town and some other cool sites. we are also going to gabriola island to see my family as well. it should be fun. from there we travel to sicamous for 2 days and then banff for 2 days. we are then back home in time for the kids to go back to school. action packed.

tonight we went for dinner on the pier in ladner and while we were dining i missed a cell phone call. it was a call from my house so i knew immediately it was my sister. she is watching our house. i was somewhat concerned. i thought either our house flooded as i hear we had a lot of rain and an amazing thunder and lightening storm the other day or something happened to our guinea pigs. well i got the call while we were driving in the truck with the kids and i found out that it was the later of the two. my sons guinea pig, goldie died. my sister described it pretty well so i knew it was that one. she said she put it in a safeway bag and put it in our freezer. great frozen guinea pig in our freezer! anyways, i knew how upset he would be when he found out and he heard the whole conversation as he was sitting right next to me. he immediately broke into tears. i felt so bad for him. he went to sleep crying. i can't stand the little critters but my kids sure love them. not sure what happened but i don't think it had been healthy for a while. i hope this doesn't wreck the rest of his trip.