On Day 3, we met Ilia and his daughters and went to the Capilano Suspension Bridge together. Anna was supposed to be in conferences, but their 13 month old son was sick, so she stayed at the hotel. John was at the conference all day.
In the picture above, you can see that Helene talked Ilia into carrying her much of the time. Ilia and Anna were good friends of ours in Houston. At the time, they had Leeta, who is 20 days older than Campbell, and a baby named Chaya (pronounced Hiya). Leeta and Campbell used to go to museums with us and enjoyed each other's company at the time (in the parallel play manner that toddlers do), so it was really fun to see them reunite and get along very well as 7-year-old, too. Here they are:
And here are Chaya and Ette, their other daughters:
The suspension bridge leads into a rain forest. It was fun to see a completely different kind of rain forest from what we experienced in Costa Rica last year. There are almost no insects here, so that's nice. The trees we learned to identify during our guided tour are cedars, Douglas firs, and hemlocks (which we tasted the needles of - not the poison hemlock variety, obviously).
This whole trip, the kids have been into "stunts," so they enjoyed walking along the fence here:
A treetop adventure (7 bridges between 8 douglas firs) was added to the park four years ago. The kids marched along, chanting, "We gotta go up; we gotta go across; we gotta go down," to the amusement of everyone around. I'm glad they all got along. It was definitely easier for me to spend all day with my kids when they had other kids to entertain them, instead of picking on each other all day. :)
We ended our Capilano adventure by listening to and dancing to this little band. They played songs that were popular in Canada from 1880 to 1950.
After Capilano, we went to Chinatown and ate Malaysian food, a new adventure for all of us. It was very good, and I was proud of the kids for being adventurous.
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