BBQ Diner
We are
hosting a seafood BBQ starting at 4pm at the Powell Pavilion. It will be
casual. Super casual in fact, but we will have a few people say a few words
over pie. The pavilion has tables inside and outside and is fully wheelchair accessible.
The park is a ‘dry park’ and visitors are not allowed to bring in alcohol, however
we have obtained special permission to serve our guests wine and beer within
the pavilion area. Please let us know in your RSVP or by email if anyone in
your family has any allergies or special food needs we should discuss with our
caterers. We are really looking forward to seeing you all there!
Day at the
park
We chose
Valens Lake so our friends and family could enjoy the park for a day. We have
booked the pavilion for the whole day.The park has a sandy public beach with a swimming
area about 200 meters from the pavilion. The reservoir is good for fishing, and
the park has a boat launch, a boat rental shop that sells bait and there are areas
to fish from land. The park offers about 10km of hiking trails. The staff will
set up a volleyball net next to our pavilion and we will have some other
picnic-friendly activities available, (ex. frisbees and croquet set), but we also
encourage guests to bring other activities if they would like. The pavilion
facilities include charcoal BBQs and a very simple kitchenette (microwave and
sink) if anyone would like to use them earlier in the day.
Camping
We will be
camping in the park on Friday and Saturday night. We have booked a very large
group campsite that can accommodate any of our guests that wish to camp (It is
big enough for 70 people). We invite our guests who wish to stay past sunset
to camp with us and enjoy a big campfire. We will follow-up with any campers
directly about the details, so please indicate in your RSVP or by email latter
if you would like to camp.
More information about the park,
directions and entrance fees will be posted on this blog.
Please RSVP your attendance by June 30th
by sending an email to BrockPincheroPicnic@gmail.com.
Gift Registry:
We have been asked several times
about a gift registry. We did not register anywhere because we are not
expecting gifts from any of our guests. We are grateful for your participation
in the picnic and for coming to wish our new little family well. However, we do
not want to make it difficult for anyone who really wishes to give us a gift,
so we have thought of a few suggestions for those who are asking. Any of the following:
i) A donation to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with us
in mind. We both have a personal familiarity with MSF and care about their
medical and humanitarian work. It's incredibly important. We feel pretty lucky
in life, even more lucky now. So we think any donation made to this
organization, smaller or larger but with us in mind, would be a wonderful
blessing to our new marriage and new little family. (http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/)
ii) A gift
certificate towards REI. We like to enjoy the gorgeous wilds of Washington
State and we buy most of our outdoor and camping gear from this co-operative
store. Apparently our outdoor activities will have to change with a third and
tiny member of the family. (Less dehydrated food, bigger tent...) It seems a
great excuse to get new gear. We will put any gift certificate
to that store to very good use. (http://www.rei.com/gift-card.html)
iii) A gift certificate for Amazon.com.
Currently we are avid Amazon users for house stuff, kitchen stuff, food,
clothes, books, etc. We expect that we will may also be using this place for
baby-retrofitting the house in the coming months with various things that we currently
know nothing about. (We accept advice on baby stuff too!)
iv) Anything that you picked out
personally, and which we can take back across the border.
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