It’s beginning to look a teeny bit like…

No, actually, it’s July. But Laurie and I are planning on a Christmas trip this year. Normally, we head to LA for family-time, but after years of negotiation (at one point, Henry Kissinger stepped in to help choose the shape of the table, and which napkins to use), we’ve been given approval to head off on our own.

It’ll come as no suprise to anyone who knows us that means Victoria for christmas. The hotel we use up there has a nice Christmas package that we plan on taking advantage of to spend a few days up there, but we’re trying to figure out what to do with the rest of the holiday. After talking to our concierge in Victoria, we probably won’t spend New Years up there; it’s more of a christmas/shopping location, and for New Years, things are pretty shut down.

So we’re looking at Vancouver. Since neither Laurie nor I are a “ballroom with 2,000 of your closest friends” type, we’re trying to look at what might be fun. We’re hoping the Canucks have a New Year’s Eve game — failing that, there are three or four other teams we might visit instead if they’re playing.

If hockey doesn’t work out, we’re thinking we might head to one of the coasts for some Storm Watching. If we get lucky, it’ll be a cold, rainy night with a nice dinner somewhere and a couple of bottles of wine watching the weather blow in. At worst, it’ll just a pleasant afternoon on a cool beach and a nice quiet night together. Where we might do this is still under discussion, but there are a number of places up the Oregon and Washington coast we might consider. I wouldn’t do Tofino that time of year, but if you don’t mind that kind of drive, it’d be awesome, if you knew the weather was coming. We’re also thinking of maybe finding a place out on one of the islands or up the Sunshine coast, and getting away from it all…

Of course, we could just do the boring thing — stay in vancouver, dinner at Lumiere, and some nice Okanagan wine in the hotel room… but we better make those dinner reservations now… Or maybe the Red Star Roast House in Portland…

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