With an exhausting couple months behind us, we FINALLY were able to pack up the truck and head out for a weekend of much needed camping. Fernie was the town of choice, with Kikomun Creek Provincial Park being the campground of choice. We had a few things on the list for this trip: relax golf reconnect sit by the fire attempt parts of Heiko's trail (bucket list hike!). The view from our campsite. :) One of my fav views in the entire world. We pulled up to our campsite, just as a torrential downpour commenced. We sat, laughed, and then proceeded to set up the tent. With our luck, the rain stopped about 5 minutes after we were finished setting up. As Friday came to a close, we prepared for our adventure the next day, Heiko's Trail. This hike is a point-to-point hike, rated difficult, about 21 KMS long, and 8-12 hours for time so we decided to attempt only a few portions of this trail. The drive to Heiko's trail head was
As most people know, this holiday season will be our first as husband and wife, but also our first without dad, and our second without Gram and Olivia. Although it will undoubtedly be the toughest season we have ever faced together, it is one we wanted to face together with happiness, love, gratitude, and hope in our hearts. We didn't want to pretend that it was not hard or sad for us, but we wanted to enter the holiday season with as much love in our hearts as we could. Don't ignore the bad, simply focus on the good. As December crept towards us, we came to the realization that we were in need of some hubs/wifey time, so we both arranged to be free of any commitments from December 22- January 2! First things first, we had a couple things to add to dads remembrance, and tidy up the condo so we didn't have to worry about it all week. Once the condo was nice and clean, we were lucky enough to have a visit from our beloved friend Chris Gallagher who had recently retu