I was being all excited about my trip to Vancouver Island earlier this month, counting down the days, and I haven’t even bothered to come back and tell you about it! My initial goal was to pack my journal so that I could record the things we saw, said, and did.

We’ve been home for 2 weeks and I’ve been meaning to record some of the more memorable moments.  I hate reading long blog entries, so I’m going to break up the 10 day trip into “episodes”. We took lots of pictures, and I have them all on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdnchick/

I realized that I had forgotten my journal at home within 4 hours of us leaving the house. We had entered the rocky mountains, and were about 20 Km outside of the town of Jasper. A semi truck was stopped on the road in front of us, and when we came to a stop behind the truck, I could see one set of hooves on the road in front of it. It was a mountain sheep, which in Jasper, could be more of a nusiance than a novelty. After sitting there for a good 5 minutes, the Golf Pro decided to go around the truck so we could continue on our journey. As we passed, we saw one (only one!) sheep standing right in front of the truck, not moving. In our mirrors, we could see the trucker get out of the truck, and shoo! the sheep off the road! That was my first good laugh of the trip.

It was about a 14 hr drive, including the 1 1/2 ferry ride to Parksville from Edmonton. We left cold and snow behind, and were greeted with overcast skies and pouring rain. The ferry ride over to the island was most amazing. It stopped raining for the ride, the sky cleared up, and it was almost a full moon, and it didn’t seem dark at all. We stood on deck at the back of the ferry the whole trip, as that was where it was the least windy. We watched as airplanes came into view in the sky, and get in position for their landing at Vancouver airport. We actually didn’t know they were planes at first, and were kinda hoping that they were UFO’s!

When we got to the house we were staying at that for the next week, I was AMAZED. The house was a block from the ocean (though there was no access to it without trespassing on someone’s back yard), and absolutely beautiful. It was nothing at all like I was expecting, and it was a nice surprise. We had to hunt around the back yard to find the key that was left for us, and discovered the outdoor hot tub! We let ourselves in the house, changed into some dry clothes and explored every room; and there were alot! The house owners left us a note saying we could stay in any bedroom except the master room. We had a choice of 3 bedrooms, which were all fully furnished, and had a different color scheme (this is a summer house), so that wasn ‘t a huge problem.

Oh ya! This house also has a bonus room, which has nothing done with it yet. Hardwood floors, blue walls, and huge windows on all sides. When I opened the door to this room, I literally jumped up and down, I was so excited that I had a yoga room!!!!!