bvi captains log blog

My husband brought me the car navigator to download my card through! He is smarter then the average bear he is.

And now for the picture part of the presentation! This is for my brother Danny, at the Italian Restaurant in downtown Victoria we went to on his birthday. My husband is looking like he justs wants to sleep!

These ones were coming across on the ferry. Water and Mountains folks, water and mountains!







This is my aunt margaret...

My aunt, my father and my cousin Brent....

Coming into Vancouver...

Going through China Town...



The Wedgewood where we are staying has these absolutely deep great bathtubs that went up to my armpits. And water pipes that must have been 6 inches round as it filled the tub in a hurry! Additionally this shower hose has the greatest pressure I had ever seen! It was amazing..There is my semi silly picture of the day! Notice Bazza was so nice, when he went down for breakfast he brought me up ham and cheese on a bagel and placed it on the toilet in case I wanted to eat it in the tub!

I am in the hospital in Vancouver waiting for a family member to get through a surgery. I have several hours to work on this blog, so I happily sat down and started to edit my pictures, only to realize that i have the wrong card readers for the wrong cards here. That means I have two lousy little pictures at the moment. The rest will have to wait! I sent my husband and father off shopping, they happily decided that Canadian Tire and the electronic store was a much better bet then the hospital waiting room.

We spent a nice two days at home. Cleaned the RV, ate, went out for my brothers birthday, got caught up on my scrabble games, you know...the important things in life. Yesterday it was time to catch the ferry over to Vancouver. We did. And our car had a great view right on the open deck, so I took pictures.

Made our way over to the Vancouver General Hospital and visited the day. Left my mother here with my aunt and I took the rest of the family for a drive out for dinner. We went for Fish and Chips, out to Joey's in White Rock. Always enjoy their fish! My brother is about ready to head back to Edmonton, so the last meal...

Staying at the Wedgewood Hotel in downtown Vancouver. Very nice place! More on that later when I have the pictures.

Bazza game me some interesting statistics on our living arrangements yesterday. When we lived on Promenade the amount of square footage was about 1800. This included all the dead spaces, that were of no use.
Bazza figures there is about 1200 sq feet of useable space and we used about 400 sq feet between the galley, cabin, head and salon when it was just us on it. Now, our RV is 250-275 sq feet. We are downsizing a LOT here!! Having said that, we have decided that we want to buy a RV lot down south somewherem and we will probably look for something that has, or we can build a garage on it for hot water heaters, bathtubs, washing machines and dryers etc etc. THere seems to be a lot of fairly good deals around. THe only problem is, we have no idea where to buy it!

We love Southern Tennessee, Northern Georgia area, but it is a long way away when all my family lives on the west coast (hold on...maybe that is a better thing!) but we don't know the west coast enough to be able to say "this is a good place to buy a lot"

Ah well, if that is the biggest problem I have I am doing just fine!

Had to laugh at my parents. We were coming over here for the hospital family time. I go into their spare bedroom and I see all my mothers casino cards out on the bed! I laugh, as I did not realize we were going anywhere near them. I see the Skagit in WA there! Then the next day I hear my father mention that he has to get his American money. We giggle again, as we did not realize we needed american money in Vancouver! I did ask my father about it and he said "well, you have to be prepared in case there is any lulls in the activity" this was only topped off by my mother printing off the directions from the hospital to the River Rock Casino here! I did not tell her that i had friends who used to run that, and we could have stayed there for MUCH cheaper then the price of the hotel we are staying at!

Promenade has managed to make it through their New Years charter. Lisa and Rich are off to celebrate their birthdays tonight on turnaround. In between the maintenance that Richard has to do anyways! They sent me a gift card for Texas de Brazil for Xmas, which means that we have to stop in Las Vegas on our way down south this month since it is the only place on the west side of the continent that has one. Darn Shucks.
Lisa has 11 corporate men on starting tomorrow. A charter that we have done every year for years. Always a lot of mayhem on board for it! I am not sure whether I am happy to be missing it (as it is a ton of work) or sad as I don't get to share in the fun! It is typically the one charter of the year that for one night anyways, my alcohol consumption slips away from me and I stay sober for another year!

Went for a drive down East Hastings in Vancouver yesterday. I wanted to take pictures, but I was afraid too! If anyone has heard anything about Vancouver and drugs, this is where they provide safe spots for drugs, clean needles etc etc. I have NEVER ever seen so many drug addicts, out in the open. Without a word of a lie there was a flea market set up by and for the street people. There was (I think) empty soda cans set up (maybe they were empty), shoes, half bottles of shampoo, and just about anything (cheap) you could imagine. Somebody was trying to sell a blow up bed that people were testing out. I would never ever walk down this street. I have never seen so many people pushing shopping carts down the middle of the road as I have here. Quite scary. Even though our hotel is very nice, just a block or two over it is horrible.