Happy New Year

So we have arrived at January 1, 2013, beginning a new year with hope and expectations for an adventurous and healthy year.  We celebrated New Year's Eve with friends, first by having a wonderful dinner at Minerva's in Kerrisdale.  It specializes in Italian and Green food and wonderful family friendly service.

They were extremely busy but handled all with good grace and smiles of welcome.  Then we went back to our friends condo for fabulous ice cream and good discussion.  Got to bed at midnight, hearing the banging of pots outside.

January 1st we thought would be a quiet day at home, but a phone call from other friends invited us for a walk in Pacific Spirit Park followed by a lunch of Swedish pancakes.  The four of us walked on trails in Pacific Spirit Park immediately south and west of Chancellor Boulevard, mainly the Spanish trail.  This led us to one of the only "bogs" in Vancouver.  In winter, with all the leaves off the deciduous trees, it can have quite an erie feeling, but there are great views of the ponds:

 

 

 

A beaver dam perhaps?

 

All, in all, a good day and beginning to 2013.  Happy New Year to family and friends!