At the end of passover this year, noa’s sister got invited to a Mimouna(check it out), and therefore invited us to tag along.  none of us had ever been to one, and its quite a fascinating event. [flickr id=”13961360786″ thumbnail=”large” overlay=”false” size=”large” group=”” align=”none”] During passover you are not allowed to eat any wheat which has been leavened.  Ie, bread, pasta..  its complicated what you can and can’t eat.  anyways, jews living in morocco were surrounded by arabs who were allowed to eat bread…

Claire and Will invited us to their wedding this summer and it fit perfectly into our existing plans between calgary and cortes.  as we drove from vancouver up to cortes, we spent 3 days in courtenay in order to attend and help out at the wedding.  we arrived the day before and hung out in our hotel room and explored the town a bit.  the following day was the wedding and that morning we went on a run along the water, where every single person we…