Hikes and Such · Mar 16, 11:48 PM

It’s Sunday night, and I’m pleasantly exhausted. On Friday night Colin and I had a date night — dinner and a movie, Juno. Quite enjoyable. I really liked the movie. Saturday we spent a lot of the day doing stuff around the house, and Colin spent most of the day getting his bike shaped up for summer. We plan to insure it for the season, and our first trip will be this coming Easter weekend when we go to Nanaimo. Brimley will have the privelege of riding in a backpack behind Colin and in front of me. Should be quite interesting. I wonder what they’ll say when we buy our ferry tickets. I wonder how much Brimley will enjoy riding a motorcycle. I guess we should get him a pair of doggles.

Anyway, today we got up and headed east to the Chilliwack area for a hike. We chose a trail featured in my book of best hikes and walks of southwestern British Columbia, and it didn’t disappoint. I was a little surprised at the amount of snow up there, but I guess we were at a little higher altitude. We parked on the side of the road near the Lindeman Lake trail head, walked a kilometre in and then headed up the trail. It was beautiful walking through the woods, with a light dusting of snow on the ground and big beautiful trees all around. But soon the hike turned quite steep, and it was actually pretty gruelling for about 20 minutes or half an hour. It was basically all uphill to the lake, and it turns out I’m pretty out of shape. Go figure. I blame Tivo and my lack of discipline/motivation. Anyway, we finally reached the lake, and it was beautiful. We were the only people there, and it was incredibly quiet and serene. Brimley was just having the time of his life, running circles around us, sniffing everything in sight. He even dipped his feet in the water a few times when we were sitting around looking at the lake and enjoying some refreshments. All in all, a wonderful and invigorating hike, though a little far from home. It took us about an hour and a half to get there. Kind of a lot of driving for a two hour hike.

So after our big hike, we went over to Lara and Aaron’s place for a delicious roast beef dinner. That Lara can cook! Even though she complains about not being able to. She’s just being modest I guess. It was wonderful, especially the yorkshire pudding, and it was nice to get to have some play time with charming little Dylan.

Well, I’m beat, so I think I’ll turn in early. Only three more weeks of classes left, and then a whole month off! Yippee!

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