We are home from Beautiful British Columbia

“Beautiful British Columbia”, that’s what it says, right there, on every license plate in the city. To match a boast like that, you had better back it up, to wit:

Texas: We make sure everyone’s textbooks teach nonsense, or
Texas: More food involving puddles of cheese than Switzerland, or
Texas: Still debating merits of annexation

But BC delivers, it is simply like someone thought of the best parts of natural vistas, cut them out of magzines, pasted them together, and in some sort of Anthony Michael Hall bit of hilarity, made the dream reality.

In this vista Lauren and I had a bit of a vacation and we feted the marriage of my former room-mate and the subsequent birth of his daughter.

Pictures coming soon, but for now the funk of flying west to east all day long must be slept off.

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