Corn maze, Pitt Meadows, September, 2016

Our homestay student had two of his friends for a sleepover. What would they do in the house? Just watch TV? Isn't it too boring? We decided to give them something fun to do and took them to a corn maze. 

This is a map of the maze!

We took this "train" while the older kids were running inside that maze. It was driven by a tractor. Our four-year-old absolutely loved it and wanted to do it again and again!

Do you know what you are looking at? I wonder why they had those things there!

My husband wanted to surprise the kids and went in through the exit instead of the entrance. He's met them half way through the maze. They got surprised as planned :)

I took our son to the petting zoo. We stopped at this barn at first. There was nothing interesting there for a little boy...

Loved these rocking chairs! They were there for the parents who were waiting for the kids enjoying a big slide set on a hill.

This is a cool spot, but not for us, so we are passing by...

Here is the petting zoo! Do you see this bridge? Do you know what it is for? Keep scrolling, you'll see!

The kid loved these piggies the most:

He like the goats and the sheep too:

Remember the bridge for the picture above? :)

The older boys ran for this "train"!

Almost time for the sunset. We had a gorgeous sunset that day!

The steps to the slide that was across from the rocking chairs. I was more interested in the grass mower, though. This is one substantial grass mower! 

We've missed the pig races :(

Still waiting for my gorgeous sunset...

The boys found the rolling down the hill was fun (all the boys you see in the picture!)

My patience has been rewarded! Here is why I enjoyed that trip:

While boys were buying sweets at the souvenir shop, I was looking around at the nice things they had there. How do you like this hand crocheted doily? 

We have done everything we could there, except for the hay ride. We've been promised that in 20 minutes, so we stayed and waited.

It was almost completely dark when they finally got us a driver. They boys loved it!

Sea to sky gondola, Squamish, BC

It was a boring day on the first of July at our house. It was a very slow Sunday, nice and warm. We did nothing all day and I thought that we probably should have a nap time after jumping on the trampoline. That plan was just minutes away when Nick suddenly said: "You have 30 minutes do get dressed and we will go out". He promised a long drive so our 4 y.o would have his nap in the car. 

He told me to bring camera as we possibly were going to a botanical garden :)

I filmed a piece of that Sea to sky highway to show the rock on the right-side of the road that they had to blow up to make the road wider for the Olympics in 2010.

This is what we saw when we finally stopped! This is the Sea to Sky Gondola. You cannot even see the end destination. Now I knew why it was important to bring video camera!

Is it going to be scary going up? Not as scary as going down! I had no idea there was a suspension bridge there too! Nice surprise! (I have a video at the bottom of this post, btw)

We already knew that our little one did not like suspension bridges (if you remember the Cascade Falls, we tried it there), so Gabriel and me went first. Then Gabriel went the second time when it was Nick's turn and I stayed with our son to wait for them. 

There are many trails at the top. Some are short and some are long. We looked at the map and found a lake not far from there. It was a small lake! Too bad the water lilies were sleeping already... I think they were pink.

I filmed that lake too. The trail to that lake was very interesting! I filmed it on our way back.

Then we found the first view point:

Then we took a really nice trail to get to this view point. It was so nice, we could have a pram for the kid so Nick would not have to carry him on his shoulders. It was worth getting there! The trail was not that long. It said 1,6 km there and back, but it felt a lot shorter. I do not think we walked that much.

...and I filmed it too, of course:

There was a band playing music at the restaurant by the gondola. We listened to it for a few minutes. I realized that I had not taken any pictures from that view point yet. So, that was what I did:

We had a picnic when we came up, but we were hungry at the end of our trip. It was time to come down and find a place to eat. 

We checked out this playground while Gabriel tried to choose a gift for his sister:

There was a flower there! 

Squamish is an interesting place! I could not take a picture, so I tried to film it from the window too!

Sea to sky highway is not the safest one in BC. There is blown up rock on one side and the ocean on another side. I filmed a few road sections to show that. 

Here is finally my video from the trip :)