Kids 50 Things #49

As you may recall there was an article in the Globe & Mail earlier this week that listed the 50 things your child should do before 12. Wanting to get a head start on the list we did something easy today and headed down to the river for a bike ride and to hopefully grab a couple Geocaches. I needed to take it easy today as yesterday I partook in some manual labour as part of my volunteer work for Rotary that included shoveling and moving gravel, soil, etc. as we helped build and fill garden plots for the local community garden; problem is I am not used to manual labor and somewhere in the process I hurt my wrist.

When we head down to the river the kids usually last for about an hour but today we spent almost two and half hours at the river just playing around and exploring a lot of the side trails. We ended up finding 3 caches on the day, we are up to 131 now; pictures of today and a few other randoms below...

50 Things Your Child Should Do Before 12

Loyal readers of this blog will by now be familiar with our 50 Things to do in BC Before You Die challenge; those of you not familiar with the list can view it and our progress here. So with that in mind you can imagine my excitement when I came across this Globe and Mail article today highlighting 50 things your child should do before they are 12.

After discussing it at great length with Cohen and Kyah we decided we should embark on trying to complete this list too. Much like the "before you die" list, we have already completed a bunch of the tasks on this new list but in the spirit of fun we are going to start from scratch. Also, like the "before you die" list I will create a blog post as we complete the tasks and cross them off the list and link the list to the appropriate blog post. As you are all so anxious to see it here is the list that we look forward to finishing...

Easter Weekend Fun

Mum and Dad were over for the weekend and we have our Rotary exchange student too so we did our best to keep busy this weekend. On Saturday morning we took Aro (not his real name just what we call him), our exchange student, and Robin, another exchange student from France, fishing on the river. As per usual our fishing trip just turned into a nice walk along the river.

Saturday afternoon we spent lots of time playing outside, gardening and then started prepping for our Easter dinner which we had on Saturday night. On Sunday morning we got up early and the kids did their Easter egg hunt and then Chelsey and Aro went dragon boating. The plan in the afternoon was to show Aro the Othello Tunnels and then do some geocaching at Emery Creek. When we got to the Othello Tunnels the tunnels were still closed due to the rock fall hazard so we just played along the river for awhile. We had the same problem when we got to Emery Creek as the park/campground was not yet open for the season. To ensure the trip was not wasted I took a detour on the way home up the old BC Nickel Mine road to grab a couple of geocaches. Enough of my gabbing here are the pictures...

Lindeman Lake in the snow...With a 5 year old

We have our Rotary exchange student from Spain staying with us for a month and it was decided that today was a nice day to go for a little hike. As we were getting our shoes on Cohen decided that he wanted to come, not wanting to break the little dudes heart I decided to let him. I was a little hesitant to take Cohen because I knew the trail was steep in spots for a 5 year old and I figured there might be some snow close to the top.

It turns out there was snow from top to bottom and I must say that Cohen did amazing. Cohen hiked from top to bottom with his little stick and barely whined. I was so proud of the little for his accomplishment. Anyways, even gloating here are some pictures...