Well.. The last blog post was almost a year ago. So I guess this is the new normal. I really miss blogging. It was always a great reason to carry my camera everywhere and a great way to sum up a lot of everyday life for family and friends. Well.. in the last couple years, our life has become a little less "everyday". It's been a lot of strange days. So many things have happened that I want to talk about and can't, or things that I should talk about but just won't. As Ruth has referred to it, 2011 was the best worst year of our lives.
It slowly becomes harder and harder to sum up life in a short little blog. Maybe because I'm still figuring a lot of it out. (And because blogger made blogging miserable for almost two years). However, Ruth and I recently got to go to the one place on this earth that I feel the most amount of peace. Sometimes standing on the shores of Tofino is like standing on the border of paradise. I never feel so at rest as I do in that place. Maybe I won't always, maybe we'll visit Tofino enough that one day it'll simply be a vacation spot. But right now it's the most peaceful place in my head.
And so.. there are a few pictures worth blogging, so I thought I'd check in with blogger to see if they'd fixed their problems and they had. So I had no excuse not to post some photos. Many other things happened this year that I should cover. Ruth tells me we've been on 16 flights this year. I've been in LA three times and I still haven't taken my camera. I still haven't blogged Paris for goodness sake. But Tofino is the one place we went this year where I took out my camera and just relaxed.
This natural hot spring destination deserves it's own post but I didn't take enough photos. We took an hour and half boat ride up to these natural hotsrpings that flow out into the ocean. I swear this is the stuff you only read about in books. The water was hot, the air was cool, you could only reach it by hiking through an old growth forest on protected land. When you arrived it was hard to believe.
It was a truly special time. We brought Eric along and made some great memories as we always do there. I literally can't wait to go back, and I foolishly dream about getting rich and buying a house on the rocks out there. I think I'd appreciate it less if that happened, but I still dream. Oh well. I'll try to blog again before the year is over, and I'll try to incorporate more of the exciting stuff that's been going on. But for the moment is was nice to reflect on this trip as I picked out photos.
