Canada Dry

Now we are in Squamish, British Columbia. It's raining a bit today and so we are connected for a while. I've been wasting hours trying to balance the pros and cons of Colorado versus California while Jay sits and reads his book patiently. California-- coast, good friends, excellent climbing, low mortgage payment, good job for torey, but HOT... Colorado-- friends and family, wilderness accessibility, probably a good job for Jay, SKIING... It's so hard. But, that has nothing to do with what we are doing now.

If you are planning a trip to Canada anytime soon remember to BYOB. The prices are about double what we'd pay in the States, hence the title of my post. Even crap wine is about $10 a bottle. We REALLY should have loaded the Rialta with cases of two buck chuck to hand out to all our Canadian friends.

We have climbed a few days here and the cracks are yosemite-esque. Beautiful granite and some excellent splitter cracks so far. Yesterday we went sport climbing with a friend that we met in Argentina and then we spent about two hours at the amazing rec center. We are cleaner than we've been in weeks and I even got to play on the diving board.

Prior to Squamish we spent a night at the Marina where Drew Layda's boat is docked. We hung out and ate lots of red meat and even paddled the little row boat around and looked at the floating houses. There was a squirrel there that had been raised by a woman at the marina and Jay got a pretty big kick out of it eating nuts from his shoulder. We also saw a bald eagle fly by. Beautiful country that Scappoose, OR. Drew and his family are doing well and we enjoyed our time with them.