Change of plans .

Few months after I got engaged I started to think what kind of wedding I would like and my mind went crazy - I imagined us getting married on top of the mountain, preferably with snow around and I didn’t need anything else. While this seemed unreal at that time, we planned a wedding in Lithuania.

I found this beautiful old mansion and a big yard. Also they offer sleep overs and that’s what I was really looking forward to. I wanted to give a great experience for my new canadian family and friends :) Dreams and plans can be gone very quickly and eventually we decided to postpone our wedding day till 2022.

When thinking about a wedding on top of the mountain I came with a date that seemed very easy to remember 2020-10-10 :) And if you take zeros out you get my b-day, mayyyybe this is too much nerdy ;P Anyway, getting closer to this day we discussed with Youn what shall we do and we made a decission to do a small elopement wedding on top of the mountain (YES!!!) and have a bigger celebration in 2022.

Fingers crossed plan will not be blown away. We started planning and buying our outfits. I have to say the most worrying part for me was ordering shoes. I have an in between shoe size and never know if I should go smaller or bigger. Anyway, shoes were fine, I oredered my wedding outfit on Etsy, flower loop was made locally in Vancouver and jewellry was gifted by Youn’s parents :) I also found cute pink colour boots in case it would be raining and ordered a big clear umbrella on amazon.

We drove to Whistler and checked around 10 spots were we could potentially get married. We wanted an easy access, with a nice view and not too crowded. Of all places Alta lake ended up being our option B in case helicopter will not fly.

Even though in these photos it looks like it’s sunny, mountains were hugged by rain clouds and for some reason we had this beautiful sunny moment for our ceremony :)

I’ve seen one of our brides wearing these Loeffler Randall shoes and from then I knew I want the same shoes on my wedding day! I usually don’t wear heels and was afraid they will be too tall, but I have to say - these are so so comfy!!! Even for someone like me it was very easy to get use to the hight :)

We knew our officient from other weddings and he is such great human being!

Attached rings on to this floral loop ;)

Bubbles for video and photo ;)

They lived happily ever afer ♥︎

Lac La Hache .

Second day on a motorcycle started early in the morning. We stopped at a local bakery to get breakfast and continued our trip towards Lac La Hache.

On the way there we stopped few times. It was really nice surprise at Clinton, where this little town has the biggest antique/thrift stores. My eyes got lost in there, and too bad we were on motorcycle otherwise I would have purchased few items :)

A ride along Green Lake reminded me a landscape of Finland. Lots of small lakes and birch trees :) This random pier was a nice discovery and a cool stop just to enjoy the sunny day :) Who ever built it - thank you :)

BC north we are coming .

The wind was going north and so we followed it. How many times we travelled outside Canada but my heart stopped when I saw a blog post on Hello BC with beautiful images of hwy 16. I told Youn ‘we have to do this!’ and we did ;) We spent 7 days on our Honda motorcycle and rode over 2000km to Prince Rupert and then back to Vancouver. I could have not imagine better week then those 7 days. We saw bears, heard wolfs hauling, loonies singing, deers licking tree trunk, swam in the lake because it was hot. I only have memories now, but I remember not caring which week day it is and all I knew was our next stop place. All I wanted to do was get onto motorcycle and just ride, follow the wind and see how the shadow changes and guess what time it was :)

We stopped so many times along the way because it was so beautiful! Rain clouds hugging mountains and changing every minute I couldn’t turn off my camera. Just kept taking one photo after another.

After few hours we reached Seton Lake campsite by Lillooet. On the way there we saw a black bear. Little did we know that the next morning we will see one right from our tent. The black bear was 20m away and we had no idea what should we do. Eventually we unpacked bear spray(totally unprepared!!), got our shoes on and slowly got out of the tent and started walking towards other campers with rv’s. We left the bear wonder around and finally he left. My legs were never that shaky before and after that the spray was always hand reach away from us.

Black bear wondering around. You can’t tell but the private houses are like 50m away on the right hand side.

My best buy before trip - Merrell shoes! Never ever got I blisters, always feels like these shoes were made by individual order ;)

Sunset time.

Camping one more time .

In a daytime you prep fire wood for the night. You eat miso soup and you take gondola up to the top to enjoy blue mountains and feel a breeze of wind :)

And after all this is done you enjoy sunset by the water and after that you ask a friend with a guitar to play it by the fire :) pretty idyllic scenario that we had on Porteau Cove Provincial Park. It’s a great place to camp but only if you get a spot by the water. During summer time it’s quite hard to reserve spot there but worth the effort. I should mention that this campsite is close to railways and the train only pass campsite at midnight/early morning and it is suuuuuuper loud!

Other than that you can do quick stops to Sea to Sky or Whistler or Murrin Lake Trail ;)