We visited Vancouver, Canada over the Thanksgiving holiday. Vancouver is known as a good food town so much of our itinerary focused on sampling the great ethnic cuisins in Vancouver.

We had Chinese dim sum, Thai and sampled Indian pastries in an area known as Punjab Market. This bustling area known as “little India” is residential area just outside of the downtown, which has one street with Indian markets, restaurants and sari shops.

We also drove to Whistler, a popular ski area north of Vancouver.

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On a whim, we decided to drive to drive to Portland for a night and spend the following day driving up the Oregon coast.  Neither of us had visited Portland before and it’s only a few hours from Seattle.  

We were only in Portland for a night but it seemed like a great city.  There were a ton of restaurants and it’s a fairly walkable city.  The drive up the Oregon coast was really pretty.  There are miles of empty beaches (it’s still a little cold!) so we had fun running and skipping on the beach. 

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We love San Francisco and have a great group of friends who live there, so we planned a trip to stay with our friends Chuck and Jessica for a weekend.

Chuck and Jessica live in an awesome area of San Francisco near the water and within walking distance to many great restaurants. Our trip coincided with Fleet Week, an airshow over the Golden Gate bridge. We had a great time catching up with friends and always love being in San Francisco!

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After our time in India we traveled to Slovenia to visit Zvonimir’s family. We were pretty drained after our trip from Delhi-London-Munich-Ljubljana!    We changed locations every few days in India so we were pretty happy being lazy and relaxing in Slovenia. Unfortunately, the hot temperatures followed us to Slovenia and Z had a bit of a cold so we relaxed at home and didn’t do very much.

Our suitcase From India smelled pretty bad (we had done laundry in the sink in India but I guess we were still pretty smelly!).  Luckily we had sent a suitcase back to Slovenia with his parents (who came to the states for graduation) so this gave us fresh clothes.  We had traveled in India with a very small pullman suitcase with 3 outfits and were happy to have more clothing choices!

I finished 4 books.  We attended a Slovenian Independence day concert  (they were at war for 10 days in 1991).  We also spent time visiting the excellent fruit markets in Ljubljana and hiking.

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We had never visited the eastern part of Slovenia so we decided to take a day trip to Ptuj.  Slovenia is a pretty small country so you can get to most cities within the country in under 2 hours.   The drive to Ptuj was beautiful.  We visited wine country, saw hops and sunflower farms.

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