After Langley, we headed into Vancouver for two nights. Craig’s parents had offered us the use of their incredible False Creek condo while they were away traveling, and we simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity. We’d been able to squeeze in a visit with Susie and Hans at Granville Island earlier (pics also below), but we were still looking forward to spending a little more time in our old haunts with our Vancouver buds around town.
We spent our first evening enjoying great Mexican food with Craig and Katie, and met them for brunch the next morning at one of our favourite eateries. We then spent the day strolling around the seawall, and meeting friends at the David Lam park playground. Isabelle made a new friend at the park, and spent almost two hours playing, climbing and running, so in retrospect, it wasn’t super surprising that as we packed up our stuff to leave, our exhausted child missed a step on a ladder and crashed a good six feet onto the ground. Initially worried about a head injury, we bundled her into the stroller and watched closely how she recovered. Ice cream sped up recovery very quickly, and it wasn’t until almost an hour later that we realized our child couldn’t bear weight on one of her legs. Off to BC Children’s Hospital we went, where an x-ray revealed that our child would, in fact, walk again someday (then next day). While we would have much preferred thai food with our friends Brenndan, Andrea and Emmett, which were our original plans for the evening, as hospital visits go, three hours from door to door was pretty amazing.
Since I’m grouping the posts geographically, I’m going to skip ahead a bit. After we returned from the island, we stopped in Crescent Beach to visit our cousins. Isabelle renewed her love of their trampoline, and we all had a great visit with Chelsea, Luke and Eli. We then headed back downtown a few days later for Kim and Michael’s wedding! We left Belle with Grandmama and Grandpapa Tousignant, but Elodie partied it up with us at the reception.