We are in Canada!

First impressions of Canada: OH. MY. GOODNESS. IT. IS. SO. BEAUTIFUL. We flew into Vancouver over purple mountain magesties, covered in snow that looked like delicious, sweet Cool Whip. It has no ozone layer so, the sun is unfiltered and so it is BRIGHT and the air is CLEAN and sweet and so so pure. Coming from hazy crazy New York, made me want to lick at the air as if it were a GIANT INVISIBLE ICE CREAM CONE.

I don't have a lot of time to write because I am too busy eating my weight in delicious food (which includes fresh honeycomb, avocados, my favorite barbecue, strawberries from the garden, and artichokes), breathing ocean air, and covering myself in fifty layers of sunscreen as to not burn my skin right off--but I did want to drop a line to the countless DOZENS who still care (hello, Dad!) We are in the wilds of Vancouver Island, and we can't believe it. More to the point: We are on vacation, and we can't believe it!

Probably my new favorite picture--Pam and Graham on the ferry to Nanaimo. We are having a good time.

It's so good to be here, experiencing the familiarness of family, with the added adventure of being somewhere niether of us has been. When the customs official asked me what I did, and I told him that I was a musician, he said, "I'd buy your CD with a name like that." I said outloud, "Canada totally RULES!"

People, it totally does.