So leaving off from last Sunday, I arrived in
Nanaimo on West Coast Air, which flies you
straight from Vancouver to the town's harbour. Wow, wow, wow! It was incredibly beautiful coming across the straight. The sun was shining, the water was a deep deep blue, and the ferry was chugging its way across to the Vancouver terminal. I'd forgotten how lovely it was here and I had such a sense of coming home. Wonderful. Finnigan had a great trip as well, at least he didn't seem any the worse for his experience. However, he was exceedingly glad to see me ha ha.
Chelsey was there at the docks to pick me up and we had a warm and welcome reunion. Finnigan jumping and barking and the girlies hugging. Great to see her and we spent the week hanging out as much as possible. Went to dinner several times and you could not have kept me away from Bocca Coffee and a "Big Cookie". The best cookie on the planet in my humble opinion. Ha, even Randy was keen to get one. Chelsey is happy to be back at work there and is doing much of the baking. She's so good at it - huge pumpkin spice and cranberry muffins - my favorites, although I don't eat them often. Way too fattening. You can see how pleased she was that I was there to take pictures of her at work lol.
I'm missing Celise and Carissa, but will be stopping off in Calgary on my way back from Haida Gwaii to visit with them. So, I've been busy finishing up a few projects here at the university and ..... taking a break to go to the store with Randy. I require sustenance.....I'll be back. Me
So I'm now back from the store and dinner and a movie and a trip to the other store and fun with Finnigan and Randy. We actually ended up going to London Drugs in the end to pick a camera lens I was hoping to take with me to the Haida Gwaii. I have the zoom lens, but now I'll be able to take some wide angle zooms with the new prezzy I bought myself. Randy is of course quite proud of the fact that he had dragged me away from the store yesterday only totrack down a lower price, which they price matched. So I got a great deal and a lens cover for a lot less than what I would have paid otherwise. You can see him the picture to the left playing with the other prezzy.
My apologies for the lengthy blog, but I've had a busy week. I hung out with my dear friend Rose and we spent the entire time laughing about some crazy thing. We were late picking up Chelsey and we laughed about that. We laughed about last year and the year before that - as good friends do. We even picked up the mail and of course we stopped for coffee. Randy has been great and very helpful and we spoke to his Mom and Dad last night (Hello Anne-Marie) who live in Quebec. Always nice to hear from them and they had well wishes for me on my pending trip to the Haida Gwaii.
The last picture is a nice one from a walk Randy and I took up at Westwood Lake. We messed around taking lots of pics and trying out the new video camera. We took two hours to walk a distance that should have taken only 45 minutes tops. But we had fun and have proof of the excursion.
I will blog again this week as I get ready to leave on Saturday for Haida Gwaii. It will be a blast to pack and re-pack all the gear and totally fun to think of getting underway. I should have time tomorrow to figure out how to upload a video clip onto the blog as well. I'll try - no promises though. Have a great week and I'll be back soon to let you know how things are going.
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