Boxing Day

Boxing Day was an early morning as we had to be at the ferry for 6:00 to meet our reservation. We had a good ferry ride over to Vancouver, again this was nice as this was Crystal's first ferry ride and the first for Poppa in a very long time. Our plan was to drive around Stanely Park, but the roads were closed due to all the trees that have fallen due to their high high winds that they have been having. It was sad seeing all the big trees that were down just driving by on the highway. Since we couldn't get into Stanley Park we just headed for Langley to Tammy's grandparents place for their big Boxing Day celebration.

It was very nice meeting Tammy's grandparents, both of which are very very nice people and extremely attentive hosts. Since we were the first ones there we got a chance to visit with them for a bit which was nice. Then the rest of the family started arriving and while we were introduced to them all I wouldn't want to have to put names to all the faces that I met. Everyone made us feel so welcome to their celebration.

Tammy's grandma put on such a spread for lunch! My goodness so much food and all of it so good. And once we had out fill of that out came a tray filled with all kinds of homemade goodies. Tammy's grandma really did her best to spoil Poppa waiting on him hand and foot but I told him that he wasn't to expect that kind of treatment once we left.

Our ferry home was about 8:15 so we left the house around 6:30 and made our way there. Our trip home was not as smooth as the trip over but wasn't too bad. Once back to Nanaimo we just went straight to the hotel, Ryan and Tammy transeferred their stuff to the car and we went up to bed. It was a long day, but a very nice day!