Our Summer of 2009

It's been a busy summer for the Shaws .

Hilary and the girls embarked on a European adventure in June, spending three weeks in various places - London, Paris, Versailles Finland and eventually a family get-together in Manchester.






About the same time, Stan did his epic bike ride from Vancouver to Banff, featured in the GearUp4CF blog he maintained during the trip, featured here.

Last weekend, we returned from a seven-day holiday beginning in Parksville, where our family joined Ruth, Jerome and their son Sam on the beach for five days, together with Ruth and Hilary's parents, Muriel and Maelor.

On the weekend, the Stan and Hilary's family joined Stan's brother Mark and his family for an unusually sunny two days on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

There, Mark and his family hosted a beautiful BBQ on one of the loveliest private beaches in Tofino, at the Wickaninish Inn, with Stan and Mark's father, Terry and his wife Grace who came from Port Alberni for the event.








The next day, Terry and Grace treated the family to breakfast in Ucluelet at a restaurant where Stan's neice Kaitlyn works. Mark's family and ours spent the afternoon on Wickaninish Beach, where Rebecca and Naomi joined their cousins body surfing in the sun.

So now, our holidays are nearly at an end . The kids return to school after Labour Day on September 7th, and we'll all become busy once again with scheduled filled with work, school, after-school programs and Naomi's preparations for her Bat Mitzvah, coming in January.

But before the craziness of fall work and school activities hit us once again, Hilary and Stan managed to get away to San Diego, while Rebecca and Naomi are spending time with grandparents and family in Vancouver.

It's too bad we didn't include a short blog with all of the wonderful holiday happenings for our family during the summer, but perhaps the kids and Hilary can add their own impressions here sometime. In the meantime, Stan thought it would be nice to at least include a bit of their holiday in San Diego on these pages, at least so the the kids can see what their parents are up to. So, enjoy!