Fernando & Me

2.Me and my little guy.
3.The last pic is of me rescuing Fernando from the icy stream–the rock was too high for him to get onto.
It was a glorious hike on a beautiful, warm September day.
I worked this am and then decided we needed a family hike this afternoon. I may go to a movie tonight with Peter–that new Matt Damon one…
Peter’s mom is in the hospital after suffering a series of minor strokes. We are wishing her a speedy recovery. Peter may be flying to S’toon to visit her on her Birthday which is Oct 2nd.
One more week and I am in the presence of my two favorite Buddhist Monks: the Dalai Lama and Mattieu Ricard. I will be staying at the Hotel Vancouver for one night and the Wall Centre for the second. A perfect mix of old and new. The Hotel Van having become like our home away from home each time we visit Van and It is really cool sleeping up in the Wall centre at night. We pull all the drapes and watch the lights of Vancouver through the floor to ceiling windows. Our Wall Center room has solid glass exterior walls–last time we stayed there we watched from high above the city as Bill Clinton’s motor brigade made its way down the streets of Vancouver.                            

And so exciting for Mistaya: she is going to Vancouver with her school’s Social Justice Club and attending a Peace Summit at the Dalai Lama Friendship Center for over 14,000 students from around BC. And to make it unbelievably wonderful, the Dalai Lama himself will be speaking to the kids! Mist and I will both be blessed with his presence on Tuesday.