Short road trip..

About the time we got on the road we decided that driving to get there was a very good idea. And we did. By Thursday morning we were heading across the border into Canada, after the appropriate border games...Where do you live? Who's vehicles are these? Why do you have vehicles with CA plates? So do you ever live in Canada? And on, always confuses things when we go through the borders with our different passports and residences...

We dropped the RV at the ferry docks and drove like crazy up to North Vancouver to catch Richard and Lisa for an hour before they went out on charter again...Had to laugh when we pulled up and we both had cameras out at the ready! Had not seen them for only a few months, but I could have hugged Lisa forever! I so enjoy her (sometimes abrasive!!) personality!



I don't know how many pictures i have of these 3 people, but quite a few!


So, we got to see the boat! Lisa is showing off her salon here, (saying please don't take one more crappy picture of me here Kerry!) They both look good, and are eating seafood like kings tottering with only 4 guests back and forth to Vancouver and Desolation Sound.


This is the view looking out their "shed" the boat sits in. NIce view and seals playing around too!!!


Up on the top deck where the tender is stored. Lisa says she has to worked harder on here and Rich says he works less so it sounds like a match made in heaven! Lisa misses chartering and would go back in a second, Richard not so much. They are here until the end of September and then Lisa has to get some holidays in so it is off to Las Vegas, California, UK and Cambodia to go dirt bike riding in the jungle (why oh why????) They are then planning on working a Ski season as chalet hosts in France for a few months after that this winter, so lots of traveling around. Lisa misses the SCUBA diving like crazy. Anyways, it was great to see them if only for a short time and we hope to get together again while we are up here on one of their forays back to the big city. The boat is nice, but truthfully, I prefer Promenade! I don't like tippy boats!!!!!!!!!!


Had to laugh walking back down the dock as the tide was low and it is such a surprise seeing this after our entire 8 inches of tides in the islands. And having to walk up STEEP ramps to get to the parking lot.


We made our way through Vancouver traffic back to the ferry docks and I nicely slept all the way across to Vancouver Island. When we pulled up at my parents, mom had her cousin, Jimmy Lee and wife Lynn visiting from Alberta, so the family parade starts! Poor Bazza....


OUr first meal out with the parents was...well since it was Friday lunch and they always go here then, we made it to Costco.


I had water as there was nothing on the costco menu that i felt like blowing my entire days calorie budget on so I could starve the rest of the day.....


Kevin had taken a picture of my swimming pool at home the other day and it is very nice. I found a swimming pool to swim in up here yesterday, but REALLY? You have to share a lane with all these people? And I know I am a large woman, but do they really make lanes that narrow where I have to practically turn over on the side to squeeze by the person coming the other direction? And I do notice that even after not having swam lengths in a pool for about 2 decades that people still don't know whether they should be in the fast or the slow lane doing their lengths. OK, rant over, I will go back and swim in my own pool soon.


Bazza had bought himself a Net Book a few weeks before we left the islands as his laptop had died. Of course he bought one when he got back and continuing on in our "handing down the electronics" theme, dad inherited the Net Book! He can look up his very own coins on EBAY and read the obituaries of who has died in Victoria wherever and whenever he wants now.


Today is our once a visit trip with the parents to the Saturday afternoon Dance at the Legion, so I better get some work done so I don't miss that...