My family had the opportunity to spend this last weekend at Semiahmoo - we did the same thing last year and had a blast. This resort is located literally at the corner of WA State - it is right on the water and it looks over to the coast of White Rock, British Colombia. It is an incredibly beautiful environment, with both the Cascade Mountains and the Olympic Mountains in sight across the sea.
This resort has quite a lot of significance for my family - this is where my mother and Curtis got married, the beach where James proposed to me and the restaurant where we had our engagement dinner, the golf course that my brother has worked at over the last few years, and the place where my sister currently takes her tennis lessons (and where I had several lessons and camps back in high school). This is also the beach where all my high school friends used to spend our summers...there are several remote parts of the beach that are usually empty, and we started many bonfires there during our teenage summer evenings.
Anyhow, I LOVE that we've gotten to stay here over the last 2 Christmas breaks....we have a great time hanging out and relaxing. In the evenings we usually stay up late playing board games, and during the day we split our time between swimming, playing Marco Polo and racing in the pool (even though my brother always wins), lounging in the hot tubs, steam rooms, and saunas, playing ping pong, tennis, and basketball in the indoor courts, and sitting around the fireplace eating cookies and drinking hot cocoa. Not many better ways to relax and chill out during a snow storm!
Here are some family pics we took on the hotel's back lawn.
My brother and one of his best friends, who has long joined us for various family events.