Preparing to leave and our house was swaying

Kim is back from her visits to family in the province of Ontario, and our plans and dates are being confirmed.  Last evening was spent with friends in the Colwood area of Victoria, enjoying a pizza and movie night.  We watched The Hunger Games, and quite liked it.  As that movie was book one of the series, now we'll have to read the rest of them.  Books are always better than the movies, anyway.

During the movie, we were getting constant text messages from our sons, to call and contact them.  Our house in northern B.C. is only 200 KM away from the 7.7 scale earthquake last night.  Our youngest son said it was like being on the ocean, in 2 - 3 foot swells. No damage that he could see to the house, which is thankful. Excitement for them, no doubt!

This morning we joined our oldest son and family at the Blue Fox Cafe in downtown Victoria for breakfast. Mmmm. We managed to avoid the larger lineups there to get in and there is a reason for those lineups, as the food is incredible. 

We are back at our RV Park, and Donald is repairing a roof leak. The spot on the roof where the TV antenna is, decided to drip away onto our bed while we were at movie night.  There were torrential rains yesterday and more to come, so that has to be fixed while we have a dry day today.

Wednesday we are meeting Rick and Paulette for lunch, and Thursday we are off to Vancouver for a day or so, meeting our youngest ( earthquake boy ) who is in the city for work meetings.

We're having Thanksgiving in 2 separate Provinces

Don is enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner with our little grandson and all his Mum's family in Victoria.  The weather there is a tad bit warmer than the weather in Ontario, where Kim is having Thanksgiving dinner in the city of Brampton, with her Aunts, Uncles and cousins.  Wonderful.

Donald has a few chores to accomplish in Victoria, and of course they involve Home Depot. What manly task doesn't? He is helping to design an anti-grandson barrier to our kids' stair railings.  We babysat him on Friday, and he took seven steps and is on his way to walking.. and then climbing! Such a happy wee guy and we loved our day together.  Grandma hopes that he will be walking to meet her when she comes back to Victoria in a couple of weeks!

So, other than that, not much is new except to say Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all.  Allan and Lolita may be experiencing both Thanksgiving's this year for the first time!!!!!

TP Education

It took us about two weeks to clean up the home ranch, put everything away and winterize the new building.  Well, if truth be told, we didn't work very hard at it, since the weather stayed about 28 C and sunny every day. That certainly doesn't lean to hard work when you're retired. 

We met with our RV Chapter 33 ( Escapees ) in Vernon last week, where we handed out cowboy hat fridge magnets that Kim made, and tour packages that Karen organized to all that came out for breakfast.  When we get back in April, we will finish up the arrangements for our Rally which we are co-hosting at the end of May.

Yesterday we managed to leave our Shuswap lot about noon, and spent the night at Eagle Wind RV Park, between Langley and Abbotsford.  Pricey, but very very nice.  Perhaps it was pricey because the Snowbird RV Show was on at the Tradex in Abbotsford.  Did we go? You bet, as it was open till 9 PM.  Did we see anything that we were interested in? Nope. All the big rigs, whether they be 5th wheels or motorhomes continue to get even darker inside. Like living in a cave. Kim needs to be a designer.  There was one thing learned though, and that involves TP ( shhh toilet paper ).  Sanidumps.com had a booth with many jars of water and TP set up, like an experiment. The premise being: " What type of TP breaks down the best ".  Yes, we know now what brand. It is not the brand I have in the 5th at present.

Quilting Studio, Shuswap Lot

Today we left Eagle Wind about 9:30, and arrived on a beautiful ferry crossing to Ft. Victoria RV Park, and we will be here a month. Visiting the kids, babysitting....golfing....and Kim is off to Toronto for a couple of weeks.

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Chapter 33 Fall Rally

Hahaha! Well, it's time for the monthly posting! We took a break from the activity of setting up of the new tiny home, and headed off to the Chapter 33 ( Okanagan ) Escapee Club Fall Rally.  It was in an area of the province that we have never experienced before, nor driven through.  What a beautiful area!  On the Monday of the long weekend, we drove to Revelstoke and then veered off south towards the Arrow Lake system.  This is a lake that was created by the dams of the Columbia River. Huge. A ferry ride took us from Galena Bay to Shelter Bay in order for us to continue towards our final destination of Burton. Home of one coffee shop and a fantastic municipal RV park, right on the lake.

The Rally was fun, fun, fun with the theme of the Gold Nugget Saloon! We enjoyed heavy appetizers the first night, golf, campfires and music, a bean pot supper, games, crib tournament and a wonderful night out at the local coffee shop/restaurant. Now, we have to get busy as Don and I, along with another couple are hosting the next Rally in the spring. The plan is to perhaps get something together in the Merritt area.

Don appointed himself the campfire organizer and I'm not sure he signed up for that! Anyway, the campfires were excellent and kept us warm on the now cooler evenings. The Rally was attended by about 20 rigs, and not everyone wanted to go home on Friday morning, so 5 rigs, including ourselves spent the night at Blanket Creek Provincial Park.  Trouble! Most of us were too big to fit into the sites, so the staff suggested that we camp altogether in the overflow area. What a great idea! It had a garbage bin, picnic tables, field, campfire ring, right next to the beach and on mostly level pavement. Some of us jumped into the lagoon area, which is created from a diversion of Blanket Creek and then overflows into Arrow Lake. Yep, it was almost as cold as Arrow Lake, which I tried the day before.

In the morning, I made a large fruit salad and we also had some leftover muffins from the Rally. We call it Tailgate Breakfast.

Tomorrow we are off to Merritt, to check out the town for next spring, as we have to be organized before everyone heads off to warmer climates for the winter.