Sundin Family Adventures
The wedding was as beautiful as Danielle hoped. Amazingly, the ever-present Canada drizzle cleared up and we had a full day of sun on Saturday. The ceremony was held outdoors in the Hatley Castle Italian Gardens. It really was a fairy tale wedding.
A peacock that was roaming the grounds
Wedding flowers
A front view of Hatley Castle
View from the front door of the castle
The cake
Niece Gianna
Niece Madeleine
The bridesmaids
At the altar
Cutting the cake
Canada is weird.
Weird, but in a good way. The gold coin is $1 (a loonie), and the silver/gold coin is $2 (a twonie). I am all for killing $1 bills in the US. It is nice to have coins with actual value.
A quarter to use a shopping cart? I don’t get it.
I looked and looked but I couldn’t find the hetero milk. I tried to get a picture of my brother-in-law John holding one of these cartons up but he wouldn’t go for it.
I got a little snap happy today and took about 150 pictures. I whittled it down to a few of my favorites and posted them below.
I won’t bore you will all details of our day but here are a few keywords: last-minute wedding tasks, rehearsal, greeeeeen, drizzly.
The most “house” looking houseboats I have ever seen
The waterway right outside our hotel is a runway for seaplanes
Our hotel
Tulips at Hatley Castle
More tulips
Right after I took this picture this statue totally came to life and started chasing me around the castle grounds. Scouts honor.
Hatley Castle
The Lertora family: John, Suzanne, and Gianna
A nephew from Greg’s side of the family
The bridesmaids at rehearsal
Dad Senasac and Danielle
Gianna getting a treat
The happy couple
Us
Beth picked us up this morning at 4:30am sharp for our “Babymoon” vacation. Theoretically this will be the last vacation for a while with just the two of us. We will be spending 4 days in Victoria, Canada and 5 days in Seattle. Much of our Victoria time will be spent with Ginette’s family since her next oldest sister, Danielle, is getting married Saturday. I have my laptop and all my other toys with me so I will post as the mood strikes me.
Right now it is 2:30pm and I am sitting in our room at the Laurel Point Inn with a killer view of downtown Victoria. Here are my first keyword impressions of Canada: gray, wet, green, litre?, kilometer?, white people.
Everything is the same in Canada except for the little differences. Per Quentin, a good way to compare countries is to review their burgers. In the Canadian Red Robin I found they don’t put processed American cheese on their burgers. They top them with, you guessed it, processed Canadian cheese. Except for the name I can’t possibly imagine there is a difference.
Propellers? Really? They still use these?
View from our hotel balcony
Sleepy G