bvi captains log blog

Sunday dawned Gloomy and Misty in Edmonton. We went outside for a bit of a walk and to dust some of the cobwebs out of our brain from the late night out for us (and the 8 vodka's for me!)


I saw that in Edmonton they actually paddleboard too, and thought it was a good sport for Canada, as unless you fall off maybe you don't really have to get in the water? It still did not look that appealing to me though!


My brother showed up, and to all the males utter dismay I called them at 1015 AM to make sure they were up and coming to have brunch with us. Mother is here for 28 hours, YOU WILL NOT SLEEP!


They pretended they all felt fine....Chad and Christina...Christina looked great!


The other ones drank champagne and orange juice and pretended to be interested in what i was saying and the food. It was average, the buffet at the hotel there, I certainly did not really think it was worth $50.00 a person, but since i have not lived in Canada for a long time, not sure of their restaurant value prices....


Went to West Edmonton Mall and since the last time I was there they now have a china town with this humongous interesting Asian Supermarket...


All kinds of fresh seafood...


I think these clams speak for themselves now don't they?


WHOLE live Ling Cods...fairly ugly!


And very large prawns that did look amazing....


Of course the vegetable section, with all kinds of things I did not recognize....


We walked the rest of the mall, and then it was time for us to head back to the airport for our flight back to Victoria. Short visit, but hey, saw my boys, went to the opening, had good food, went to the Bakery and West Edmonton Mall, seemed to be sufficient. I don't think I could imagine living their again....


Just before going through security I spied a Harvey's Hamburgers...which are about my favorite! All thought of any healthy eating quickly went out the window when I realized it would probably be a year before I saw one of these again and soon a double original bacon cheeseburger was heading its way to my mouth. Yes, it tasted divine. And yes, backing away from the food trough and eating healthy the next day was a struggle.


Our view flying into Victoria of the islands and water....




A day of quick typing on my keyboard to get some work done and a day of packing up "things" and parents in the RV and we were on the road again. This time taking the RV over on the ferry to Port Angeles in Washington.

I could take pictures of scenery, but really, Bazza's fish and chips looked MUCH better...


This was mine and once I threw away the dressing, took a tablespoon of the parmesan only, well the chicken and romaine tasted wonderful....


These are just pictures of the beautiful day we had pulling out of Victoria Harbor...









And this is coming into Port Angeles on the other side and the Coast Guard Station. Pretty flat water!







We decided to go down the coast a bit, until Portland at least..and I really missed having my large camera here. The little point and shoot just cannot take the pictures how I would like to frame them in these gorgeous spots....






We hired a windshield wiper for the trip, but truthfully he needs some practice!



He had to have a nap after this tough job and I think my mother was just napping in sympathy along with him!


Thats it for today, time to get dressed and go play..I think I am only about 2-3 days behind on this darn blog now....