Garrett & Amanda: Je suis très fatigué...

Oooh-weeeee... The Gatlins and company are VERY tired. Have you ever seen the movie "The Sandlot"..? Well, do you remember when Squint's uncle chants.. "FOR-EV-ER...FOR-EV-ERRRR". Well. That's how long the days last here in Vancouver. Because we are in the waaaaay upper hemisphere of the world, the sun comes up around 5am and it doesn't get dark until 11pm. (And, ladies and gentlemen, that's why God invented black-out curtains.)

Not only did we stay up half the night last night acting like RA-TARDS...

We kept poor Adam awake giggling like little girls alllllllllllllll night long. Baaahahahaha!

Chef Garrett was kind enough to wake up early and cook breakfast for the whole clan! (Ladies, he's handsome, he can cook, and he's alllll mine!)

TODAY's adventure. We hiked the entire Little Qualicum Falls park and THEN had high tea and crumpets at Queen Elizabeth's vacation home at the Milner Gardens. (True story, it is a little wisteria-covered cottage in the woods.. they had family snapshots everywhere, including one of Prince William as a baby with Charles and Di, ahhhh-dorable.)

There is a LOT of nature here. Meet Goober. Goober lives a simple life, a humble home beneath his cozy little toadstool... Goober likes to surprise unsuspecting American tourists... Little blonde American tourists, especially... Goober may look harmless, but he is lethal. One can only imagine the agonizing fear of accidentally stepping on him, and slipping and sliding down the side of a mountain to certain death...