Vancouver B.C. Temple Open House, Elena's first bite

On Saturday, April 24th, Dan and the Fam woke up early and drove north to the Vancouver B.C. Temple open house. The open house is a great opportunity to allow ALL people come inside and see the temple for what it is before it is dedicated as the house of the Lord. What a beauty! I was a bad example though. Before the tour we were in the church adjacent to the temple, where groups of people were gathered and introduced. Dan and I lost each other (I thought he took off without me when I went to change Elena's diaper). When I found him in the church hall, I bellowed out, "Dan, I'm going to kill you!" Way to set a spiritual tone. Yikes.

Afterward, we blindly drove to downtown Vancouver (got lost) and took a stroll at Stanley Park. There we ran into the Sablan family, who also drove up to see the temple. We may come back to this spot w/ our bikes and a bike trailer, for there is a very awesome scenic bike path here!!!

Cricket anyone? I want to learn-- looks like fun. We watched them play while I fed Elena on the park bench. how romantical... hehehe

The Sablans told us about this yummy Chinese bakery to buy this yummy food at. Unfortunately we got lost and ended up finding this YUMMY greek hole in the wall. Shawarma w/ shaved lamb in a pita sandwich w/ yummy veggies and sauces.... SO YUMMY. Did I say...yummy?!?!?!

On Sunday, April 25th (Happy B-day dad!), Elena was given rice cereal - her first try at food other than breastmilk. At first she opened her mouth a lot. We thought she liked it! But she then started to shutter in disgust with every spoonful. We too gave it a taste, and GRRROOOOSSSSSS it was. Poor baby!