I’ve just realised that we are at the final stretch of the year, and I’m not really sure how that happened!

I’ve been incredibly busy at work for the last month or so, with only two weeks left at my current position I am trying to get everything wrapped up but more and more seems to be coming my way. On top of that I am busy with evening classes, trying to fit some Spanish homework in between classes as well.

A church in the one of the mining towns

All of this has combined to mean that I am really behind on my Christmas plans, normally at this point I am half way through my Christmas gift and card creating, this year I have nothing planned. I have started some Christmas cards this weekend but that might be the extent of my Christmas crafting, my friends and relatives may sigh with relief as they are likely to receive purchased gifts this year!

Beautiful BC in the fall

On the plus side I have managed to fit some fun into my schedule; this weekend I went to the annual Apple Festival at UBC and enjoyed the tasting booth as well as splitting a lovely slice of apple pie. I came home with 3lbs of apples and baked a rather tasty (if I say so myself) pie last night. I think I will use some of the others as part of my entry for the baking competition at work for my leaving do.

Last weekend was a long weekend and SO and I treated ourselves to an extra day off work and escaped the city for a couple of nights. We headed north past Whistler then looped east and south through several small towns and villages. We spent the first night in a lovely lodge in Pemberton, with intentions of taking a hike to a glacier lake we instead succumbed to the lure of the outdoor hot tub where we spent the better part of the evening.

Mining truck

On the second day we took a meandering route through some quite desolate little towns including a couple of mining towns; SO was entranced by the size of the mining trucks- see SO standing at the front tyre for scale! We ended up in Merritt where we had hoped to fit in some star gazing but the clouds prevented that, instead we tried our hand at geocaching the next morning which was a lot of fun and I think may feature in some future outings!

This week I am determined to continue to take time for some fun, I refuse to let these last 2 weeks of work exhaust me so totally that I have no energy for starting my new job in November.

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