Fort Camping, September 6th to 10th, 2015

Sunday we went to Dad and Betty's and they took us out for dinner. Betty made peach jam from the peaches we brought for her from Kelowna. Yummm. They unfortunately lost their 11 year old cat, Opie. They think that he was taken by a Coyote or Racoon as he never came home about 10 days ago after being let out at 5pm in the evening. I am sure glad he didn't take off like that on my watch in May. That cat was very stubborn and would not come for me when I called him.

Monday we got all the stuff into the car for the trip back to storage on the island and generally rested up for the trip to the island on Tuesday.

Tuesday morning we left early to avoid the first day of school traffic and were at Garrett's apartment at 6:45 to drop off Freya for the night. We got to the ferry in plenty of time and arrived in Nanaimo by 10am. We did a little bit of window shopping and then our doctor appointments. Ryan and Paul's were the next destination and we picked up some KFC to bring for a late lunch. Paul regained his weight and they both look good.

We spent a couple of hours yakking and then it was off to the heated storage to exchange summer stuff for Christmas bins.

I used Hotwire and managed to get a hotel room at the Northgate Best Western. We were pleasantly surprised how nice the room is. They even have a hot tub. After checking in, Ray went and picked up our prescriptions while I unpacked.

Dinner is at the Cactus Club with Gary and Janice, and John and Sue. We were still somewhat full from the KFC so we just ordered 3 different appys. It is a very long, long day for Ray so I don't think we will be able to do that much in one go again. We probably will have to stay 2 nights to spread things out.

After Ray's second doctor's appointment Wednesday morning, we were back on the ferry to Vancouver. Unfortunately the 1:10 ferry was full and we had to wait for the 3pm sailing. We arrived at Garrett's at 5:45 pm. Garrett put together a celebratory dinner to celebrate his new job. Yeah! We met Kat , who is very nice and helped Garrett make dinner. It was nice to just sit and visit with them doing the work. Lol. We got back to the campsite by 9:45pm. Another long day.

Thursday we spent just puttering around recovering from our busy week. Tonight, Friday, Steve and Dianne arrive here at Fort Camping for a month and we are all going out for dinner at the Fort Pub. Garrett is supposed to come tomorrow and wash the roof of the coach as the weather is good for the weekend. Ray will be so happy to have all of the spots removed.

Garrett and his girlfriend came on Saturday morning as promised and spent several hours scrubbing the coach roof to remove all of the spots and then washed the roof in preparation for waxing it tomorrow. They worked really hard and it was quite hot Saturday and Garrett got quite light headed from the acetone. After cooling him down with ice water and giving him my hat he was back at it to finish. Kat was a great help and did a lot of the scrubbing as Garrett is still recovering from his knee surgery on July 28th.

Garrett and his Girlfriend Kat

Here is a picture of the finished product including Ray's shadow. The roof is now a thing of beauty!

As a thank you to the kids I made fried chicken with twice baked potatoes and fresh local corn. Kat was moaning while eating and doing her "happy dance" so I think the food was well received.

The coach is supposed to go in to First Truck on Monday for an oil change and a generator oil change. Our appointment was for 12 noon. We dropped it off at 10:30 am and told the girl that it was "our home" and needed it back late afternoon. Ray phoned at 3pm and they had not even started it and it was not slated until start at 4pm for return to us at 9pm. Totally unacceptable! so we just picked it up without the work being done and will have it done in the States along our way.