Hiking up to the Tunnel Bluffs, centrally located between Squamish and Vancouver, had been on my list for a while. However, as anyone with an iPhone or Instagram account can see - it's also been on everyone else's. If you know me at all, you know that hiking is not just something I do for the views (or the exercise!) it's to escape and getaway from the crowds. Something I wasn't sure would be possible, given the enormous sudden attraction to this otherwise small trail. 

But enough is enough.

I had to check it out, and quickly - before the sno...

Tulips. Spring. Festival food. And all set in the mountains? Sign me up!
My day trip to the Abbotsford Tulip Festival had everything my flower dreams could think of and then some. So if you love the thought of summer arriving, get ecstatic by vibrant colours and enjoy side stepping around puddles of mud- this festival pretty much has your name written all over it. 

But I won't lie - getting here was a mission.

I will admit, sometimes I have been known to get a little too dramatic. But it's only because I get excited a...