I have Monday off work for President’s Day, and had fleeting thoughts of leaving town for the long weekend. Becca searched high and low for a last-minute flight+hotel deal to anywhere on the Yucatan so that we could relax on beaches and see Mayan ruins, but no luck. I’m not too disappointed because it’s better for me to just save the money, but it definitely would have been nice to get out of Houston. So then I thought about heading to a nearby state park to camp on my own for a night, but the weather is looking very blah and noncommittal. Showers and overcast skies.
In the end, I’ve decided that Sunday might be a nice day to finally check out Armand Bayou Nature Center, which is only 10 minutes away. Maybe find the geocaches that are hidden there that I haven’t yet checked off my list, take some photos, walk the trails. I’ll wait to see what the weather is like…
I’ll be getting out of Houston soon enough anyway. We’re taking a big group trip to Vancouver/Whistler in three weeks and I’m starting to get excited as plans come together. For this trip, “we” includes myself, Becca, Cari, Gavin, Jen, Rich, Jen O, Irwin, and Becca’s Aunt Diane and Aunt Nancy. What can I say — when we do trips, we do them big!
We fly into Vancouver on March 9 and half of the group is heading straight to Whistler to ski, but Rich and I (the little- to non-skiiers) are going to spend a day and a half in Vancouver. Cari and Gavin are going to spend part of that time with us, and Irwin too. We’re going to stay with Cari’s friend Ruey one night, then spend Thursday riding bikes through Stanley Park which is supposed to be very pretty. Rich and I will head up to Whistler on Friday, and Jen O will come up for the weekend as well if she can escape work. Finally, Cari’s friend Kelly coincidentally will be at Whistler that weekend as well.
Whew! Everyone is scattered for the first couple days, but by Friday night we’ll all be at Whistler/Blackcomb. On Saturday I’m going to attempt to learn how to ski (I’ve only done it once before, when I was in 8th grade). On Sunday, we’re going to do this very cool Ziptrek thing across the valley.
Becca’s done a great job with the planning so far, and it sounds like we’ve managed to work out a plan where everyone can do what they want! The funniest part so far was when we called to confirm our plane tickets, and didn’t realize that we needed to talk to the international ticketing department. Yeah, Canada is another country, apparently.
Armand Bayou is pretty cool. Sunday is not very crowded. You’d probably love taking a dog or two with you too. 🙂 Unfortunately, ours will be with us.
Dogs aren’t allowed in Armand Bayou, I tried once.. scares the wildlife or some such nonesense.