A quiet Sunday afternoon

My parents managed to sneak in a trip down to one of their favorite Casino's in Washington called the Skagit on the way back to Victoria. I am not sure how that happened as I did not realize the Skagit was on the route between downtown Vancouver and the ferries to Victoria! My father delighted in taking lots of pictures of their hotel room there as although the hotel we stayed at in Vancouver was very nice, and they said a suite was good for 4 people, the bed set up was not optimal. 2 double beds right beside each other (1 mean two inches in between) so we felt like we were sleeping like little sardines in a can! Ah well, great bathtub though!

My mom took a couple nice pictures of the sunrise. Something I am NOT ever every going to see!



My dad took us out for dinner on Friday night (after an already exciting trip out for hot dogs at Costco for lunch!). We went to Montanas' I was pleased to see a lot of steak on the menu, which I ordered only to be told that there was only one piece of steak left in the entire restaurant and not a cut I particularly liked! I took it anyways, and then kicked myself, and usually, and i know this having cooked for a living for a long time, when you are getting low on an item, you keep on picking out the best, until you get down to the dregs and usually the last one of an item is freezer burned, misshapen and barely edible. Remember this. It held true again on Friday night.

Not sure whether I am coming down with a cold or just run down. I think just run down about covers it. The weather has been spectacular, hovering about 10 degrees. I can handle that quite nicely thank you!

Had to laugh at Lisa's blog on the boat. Every year we do this corporate charter. Every year they switch guys 3 days in. Every year we lap the island about ten times. Going to Beans, Willy T's, Jost, Bitter End in a three day period. And throw in the Baths, Little Harbour for pull toys and Thatch for snorkeling too. Every year I was talked into going to Jost Van Dyke on the third night making it a hard long slog to get back for the short turnaround the next day. Every year I give in and say next year I won't do it. The boat did it both times this charter, and Richards excuse to Lisa was "well Kerry would do it..." Glad to see that I am not the only one....

I heard rumors (NOT our group) of a dinghy who untied themselves from the dock at Willy T's last night and then just drifted away. Without turning on the engine. Sounds about right. Richie rescued them, and was given an IPHONE by a drunk guy????????? The boat is finished charter for a couple weeks tomorrow and then there is trips to St THomas to buy all the odds and ends that of course have managed to break, disappear or be used up over the last few weeks of doing charters.

My dads birthday tomorrow, 73 years young. We are going to do the "senior special" and do a late afternoon movie and dinner for it, so we don't keep Bazza and I up too late!