Skytrain, Seabus and Smoke Alarms... Oh My!

I was slacking on my blog because I was spending an enormously embarrassing amount of time watching the Olympics over the past few weeks. Then we were all sick with a cold / cough that is going around. Hannah and I are the toughies in the family and we sucked it up and got on with it. Dave and Victoria... well lets just say they have had a harder time kicking it.


I found this Barbie house with furniture on Craigslist the other day so I drove out to Burnaby to pick it up for the girls. I got it all for $50 which was a great deal and it is in excellent condition. Hannah and Victoria love it and have been playing with it non-stop since I brought it home.

This week is Spring Break and since the kids have no school or activities this week I am anticipating it to be a very LONG week. Especially since it is supposed to rain most of the week.


Today the kids and I went downtown with Buggy for a little adventure. We took the Skytrain and then the Seabus over to Londsdale Quay. We had lunch at East Side Marios at the Quay and the girls were pretty well behaved in the restaurant. It helped that there were two police officers at the table beside us and I told the girls they better be good because the police were watching!





There was a small play area there too and the girls had a blast playing in the ball pit and riding a few kiddie rides.

Hannah and Victoria were pretty good for most of the day. I thought it was funny when they were looking for sharks in the water when we were on the Seabus :-)

Tonight I was sorting some laundry in the laundry room when all of the sudden I smelled smoke and something burning. I rushed into the kitchen in a panic and I discovered that Victoria had pushed a stool up to the counter, put one of her pieces of pretend plastic food into the toaster oven and turned it on!! The plastic was burning and smoking and the smoke detector went off... I think I got in there just in time and thankfully it was only smoke at that point and no fire! Enough to make my heart race and send me into panic mode... and boy did Victoria ever get it after I got the situation under control!!