Tag archive for ‘Getaways’
Getaways – Family Learning at the Capilano Suspension Bridge
As the world descends upon the West Coast of Canada for the 2010 Olympic Games in February, the one thing we’ve been chatting about lately is getting over to the Mainland in the next couple of weeks to get our Vancouver fix in before everyone else shows up.
It’s not that we don’t want to be [...]
Getaways – Learning, Adventure & Airplanes Up Close at YVR
When I was a kid in the 1970s one of the things that I waited for all year was to be able to stand right at the gate, face glued to the glass, waiting for my grandparents to get off of the airplane – whether it be for Summer vacation or Christmas holiday. We would [...]
Top Reasons Why Moms Actually Go to The Spa
Editor’s Note: Ah, Sunday… hope to see you out today at the Family Heritage Experience out at The Filberg. We’ve got great heritage activities, tours and a public art quilt. So, head on out. We’re there until 2 p.m. If you missed the morning post, be sure to check out our November Mom Entrepreneur profile [...]
Getaways – Apple Deliciousness
When September peeks its head out each year there is only one thing on my mind – apples.
Call me an apple snob, an apple specialist, a woman of the apple kind. But, I love them and when the Gravensteins, the Fujis, the Transparents, the Honeycrisps, the Spartan, the Jonagold and the Braeburn come into season, we [...]
Getaways – The Mini Comox Valley Wine Tour
Editor’s Note: As a part of the Eat Real. Eat Local 30-Day Food Challenge, you can cool off at the Courtenay Museum at 2 p.m. today with the showing (in partnership with World Community Development Education Society) of Deborah Koons Garcia’s The Future of Food. It’s a great film on food security that is sure [...]
Getaways – Comox Valley Shellfish Festival
Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time in my head thinking up places and spaces where we can escape to for a couple of weeks this Summer.
We are – very seriously – in dire need of some unplugged family time of the leaving-town kind. But, while it may be a bit before we can [...]
Plan Some Family Fun in May
Did I say May? This year is racing by at the speed of light for me. I can’t believe we’re already nearing the middle of 2009. But, what that does mean is that things are starting to get very, very busy again around the region and doing some family fun planning for the next month [...]
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