Back to Lyfe. A good break, short but I feel like I've been away a lifetime. We got back from BC on Friday, then split the next morning for 2 nights of camping. I am refreshed and stoked to get back to work and routines again.
Spent good time with parents and brother, talked all the hard questions was great. Mom is getting worse fast but is handling it as best as you could ask from anyone. Dad too, very impressed with everyone was inspiring.
Here are some pics:
1st day we took the kids surfing, they had been asking forever and really wanted to go. The waves were shite for any real surfers but were perfect for giving kids a first lesson. We brought big long boards, and it was pretty shallow and sandy so my brother and I could stand in the waves and push them off when a wave came to help them catch it. Super fun, an amazing little beach:
my brother's car:
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Mrs Masato stayed on the beach (brasilian, she thought we were crazy, lol water was cold. Wetsuits work though. Anyways she's not a very good action photographer, the kids got up quite a few times but this was she best shot we got:
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West Coast is so great:
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family reunion:
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Fan Tan Alley, Chinatown in Victoria. When I was a little kid my uncle had a loft here, we stayed with him a while I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
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Mural depicting early days of Victoria Chinatown, I was always fascinated with imagining what it must have been like, the geography is so amazing there, what interesting times/characters and stories
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This is apparently a functioning public Chinese School, downtown Victoria, kids go here like public school
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Blatant Masonic imagery on key corner buildings downtown Victoria. This one had a big Star of David on it between the Jachin and Boaz Twin Towers:
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Synagogue up the street, I noticed the same 'Triptych' architecture we were exploring here:
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We rented a great lakefront Air BnB just 10 minutes from my folks' house:
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My son is always eager to train BJJ when we travel, so we found this place. To our surprise it was the current INVICTA champ Sarah Kaufman's club:
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She does the kids classes and was really amazing with my son, gave him lots of attention and showed him a few tricks specifically for his game:
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