bvi captains log blog

And lots of family, family I have not seen for many many years in some cases. We left Victoria on the ferry over to Anacortes so I could download some more books onto my Kindle and mail off some boxes of "stuff" down to the boat. As usual on the FERRY it was freezing and we only went outside for this picture! We are smiling through frozen teeth here!

So after having gone to Costco, and the Casino, and the Malls etc in a different country we were ready to drive back into BC and go up to Edmonton. It was a pretty drive and we did stop at Blue River to take a helicopter tour, hoping to see no Grizzly Bears, but none other then where on the signs at the side of the road!







My parents thought it was great not to do any driving at all on this trip and were quite comfortable fighting over "who got the better viewing chair" in the aft!

Then, Just like children do, when they had finished bickering they fell asleep!

We are a strange looking family. Every female on the Macdonald side sits exactly like this! YOu will see some similar looks as the pictures go on. This is not one of my mothers better pictures!

We showed up in Edmonton to find my brother (3 years younger)

Off we went to the Edmonton Aviation Museum to celebrate my great aunt (my grandmothers sisters) 50th wedding anniversary.

You seeing any kind of resemblence here? Wait till you see the cousins about my age!

My oldest son Chad and his girlfriend came over to hang with the old folks for awhile.....

And this is just my parents, brother, husband and i getting ready to go that evening. See, I have wedding clothes on again!

This is a picture of my great grandparents! Back in Edmonton in the 1950s.

And here is my family with my son Chad and Christina

My mom with some of her relatives...

There were a lot of people there, and all the grandchildren put on a talent show which featured Ballet to Hip Hop to Classical! It was very nice! AND we stayed out past the witching hour! I think it was midnight before we left!! I guess when you have not seen some of the people for 30 years, it takes awhile to get through them!

This is purely for comparison purposes, thanks to Doreen to sending them along. If you start to think the BVI is too crowded, you can always shift countries and start going to the Beach in China. After these pictures when I received them there was only one comment "guess where they go to the washroom!" So after this, Cane Garden Bay will not look that bad!














And then back to the BVI, here is a PDF of the July Article in Sport Diver Magazine on diving in the BVI

I have also been hard at work doing a new web site for the BVISO sinking project of the Windjammer Flying Cloud, although not finished, I think it is ready to throw open the doors to see whether I get any tomatoes thrown at me! The link to that is Windjammer Flying Cloud
This only takes me to last Friday night, but since it is 330 in the morning, and i have to get up early, the rest will wait for a day or so!