Progress

So don't tell my Mom BUT...I now have an officially registered business name, and reserved the domain name, AND I am currently awaiting a certification program through petsit.com. Yeah! And, OMG! ACK!

On a more immediate front I now also have 7 stamps out of 12 for my Tourism Challenge card. Last weekend I went to the HR MacMillan Space Centre, the Vancouver Museum, and the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Of course I didn't get out of the house till after lunch so I was in a bit of a time crunch. However, it was still really interesting and I would definitely take the kids (well, with parental assistance) to the space centre. The question was about what kind of food the astronauts eat - which was kind of gross really, but cool if you know what I mean. I certainly would not want to be in space for long if I had to eat like that. The Museum had a new exhibit on Bhangra music and the change over time. It was AWESOME!!! There were videos, the musical instruments, ipods to listen to with the music featuring the hot spots in Vancouver, the UK, etc. which was great. There was even a room where you could watch or participate in a dance lesson. It's open till the fall so I will definitely go back. The Maritime Museum was nice to visit again - I had to find a female pirate name & the name of the vessel featured in their exhibit about Roald Amundsen's voyage into the Northwest Passage which was really interesting by the by. Also, Pirates!

Yesterday I went to the Museum of Anthropology, the new Beatty Biodiversity Museum and the UBC Botanical Garden. I found a whole new area at the MOA that I didn't even knew existed. The Biodiversity museum was really great. They really have an amazing collection of specimens and I can't wait to go back to have another look. It was raining so the Botanical Garden was a really quick stop - the answer was a Douglas Fir as an FYI. I wanted to do their Canopy walk but because of the weather I scrapped that. Hopefully sometime in the summer I'll get there again and I can do it then.

2 more Sundays so if I can get 3 next weekend, plus the Zoo, I only need 1 more to get the minimum so I feel like I'm on track. I'm hoping next weekend will be Maplewood Farms, Capilano Suspension Bridge, and Grouse maybe. I guess we'll see. The weather's been against me lately.