Kidding Around Vancouver Island

We have a yearly excursion to Mount Washington to do a bit of snow tubing. It is a whole lot of winter fun – and a great family outing. We skip out of school and work for the day and head to the hill. We wear our warmest snow gear and eye up our favourite [...]

Of course we couldn’t let the week go by without mentioning the S-N-O-W this past Saturday (my mum doesn’t let me say the word ever since we lived in Northern BC with a lot of S-N-O-W). Has April become the new December? Central Vancouver Island got hit with 24 centimetres of snow in about a [...]

Things got a bit awkward as we stood in line at Nanaimo North Town Centre the other day for the requisite picture with Santa. Our six year old was observing that Santa seemed to be in a lot of places at one time these days and isn’t that odd. As we desparately thought of a [...]

At Malaspina University College in Nanaimo, the 13th Annual Festival of Trees features over 50 Christmas trees and a 136-foot-long mural by local artist David Wick. The decorating theme this year is romance and the classic movie Dr. Zhivago. We missed Family Day, but there’s a Public Day this Saturday December 1st with Senior Day [...]

One month until Christmas – that’s our cue that it’s time for the lights. Not that we put up our lights on the 25th, that takes place on… come to think of it, we never put up our Christmas lights for one simple reason: they never come down! My husband is one of those “I’ll [...]

Up in Qualicum Beach, this Friday marks the first day of Milner Gardens’s annual Christmas Magic weekends. Festivities get underway at 5:30pm and feature candlelit walks through the 10 acres of gardens. There’s a Teddy Bear cottage which is supposed to be quite delightful and children can also enjoy storytelling at Milner House. And of [...]