Salt Spring Island

On Sunday August 5th Chris, the girls and I travelled to Victoria to attend Miss Violet June Wight's baby blessing. We had a fantastic day and church followed by lounging in the shade of the Wight's yard while the girls napped after church. Not much after we arrived the topic of GOLFING came up. I witnessed three men quickly making plans to go golfing this week. I piped in, "talk to your wives first in private and then make plans!!"
Chris took the opportunity to talk to me while we were lying under a tree. I agreed that it would be a good thing for him to do. Later that afternoon the topic of golf came up again. Ali was present this time and said they were planning on going to Salt Spring Island on Tuesday... we looked at each other and decided we should all go to Salt Spring and the men could golf while we visted shops, ate lunch and played at a park.
Fast forward to Monday night Chris starts asking me what we need to pack and then starts packing it. At 6:30 this morning I hear him getting up (the alarm isn't set to go off until 7) I instictively ask him what is wrong. He tell me he just can't sleep so he is going to pack up the car etc.
I wake up at 7 and essentially everything is done, including the milk for bottles in the microwave warming up. ALL I had to do this morning was get myself ready!! By the time I was ready the car was packed (included the fridge items that needed to be added to already packed bags), water bottles with ice made, golf clubs and stroller packed, the girls diapers changed, the girls dressed and fed morning bottles.
We closed the door at 7:25 and were on the road to the ferry
This alone made for a fantastic day...

We couldn't decide if it was going to be warm and sunny this morning

When we got to Salt Spring we drove around to get a feel for things. We then dropped off the men to play golf and proceeded to Ganges. We spent the next couple of hours looking in shops and enjoying the warm but not too hot weather. We ate lunch on the pier (Chris and I had fish and chips and it was VERY good). We then had ice cream cones.

While waiting patiently for lunch Abigail had a quick cat nap while Isabelle held her hand!!

Abigail at lunch (how grown up does she look?)

Isabelle at lunch (how grown up does SHE look?)

Coconut Ice Cream cone...

messy but great!! (biggest childsize cone ever...)

Alison and I at the end of the day (don't we look relaxed?!!) I love this photo...

Chris and Dave after lunch and a round of golf

Today I was relaxed ALL DAY and I LOVED IT!!! I didn't even have to get myself to relax once I just was. I was living in the moment!
Today was perfect. People still gawked and made comments that I hate. The girls were amazing... and really 9 out of 10 times they are amazing. Golf took so much less time than expected. Bottom line is this Salt Spring Island is a great place to visit!

Oh and I am celebrating the fact that my hands are less full and I am again carrying my camera with me! Today I took pictures on it for the first time since May. YAY!!!

Ferry Terminal on Salt Spring Island

Two of my favorite things... water and mountains!