My Mum and Gran visit, and other things

I've uploaded a whole heap of photos to Flickr from the recent visit from my Mum and Gran. I think they enjoyed their holiday here in Canada, though sometimes I think perhaps they sent each other a bit crazy - too alike I think :) These are just the photos from the time that we all spent doing stuff together - my Mum has loads more from their coach trip to the Rockies!

They had very good weather for their holiday, barring one day when they arrived and the last couple of days before they left, which were rainy. Since then, the weather has returned to being scorching hot again. I think this might be about the best summer I've seen here in Vancouver in 4 years, and it isn't over yet.

Last weekend was the Strathcona Gardens open day and plant sale. This is the place where we have our allotment, and Steph has been helping out a lot with the plant sale this year. On the Saturday she probably spent 7 hours there helping with the set-up, and I joined her later on for about 4 hours. It was hard work, but fun. On the Sunday, Steph helped with the actual sale itself too, for about 5 hours. I decided to take it easy that day :)

We are thinking about holidays whilst the weather is so good. There's a chance we might go away next weekend for camping on Vancouver Island with friends, but we're not yet sure if that will happen. We are also planning a camping trip down to the Oregon Coast with some other friends, which might be in a couple of weeks. Hopefully it will happen, but we need to get off our bums and sort it out!

We saw Up last night at the cinema, which is a great movie. I think it might be one of my favourite Pixar films. Tonight, we are going to watch an outdoor showing of Ghostbusters with friends, and having a picnic tea. Ought to be very pleasant.

The annual Celebration of Light fireworks displays start this Wednesday too, beginning with Canada. The UK are one of the countries competing this year, which will be interesting to see. I reckon we'll be down there as usual, oo-ing and ah-ing with the rest :)