2004-03-26-Nanaimo

Kat invited a large crowd to her mom's house in Nanaimo for the weekend. Zaven had to work late, so Kat, Brenda, and I went to pick him up from Duke Point at 1am. We hacked at the ferry terminal for a while before the ferry arrived and Brenda gave Zaven the loudest and most twirly welcome of anyone at the terminal.

2004-03-26

Brenda waiting for Zaven longingly at Duke Point ferry terminal

2004-03-27

	Spatz and Deb	Cameras and tripods oh my!

After playing with Spatz, picking up Darko from Departure Bay, and eating pancakes for breakfast, we headed out to Little Qualicum Falls. It was here that I saw arbutus trees for the first time.

	Scott, Kat, Darko, Zaven, Brenda	Deb
		Brenda	Bark and moss
Zaven		Arbutus tree	Weird bark
So smooth	Arbutus trunk	Kat taking a picture	Rainbow
Slug cheeked Kat	Kat's new friend
	Why were there roosters running around in the Little Qualicum Falls parking lot?!?

We played some hackey sack in the parking lot, then were startled by roosters running across the parking lot. We had been hearing them for some time, but did not expect them to be as free range as we were seeing. After chasing the chicken around a bit, we got hungry, so we picked up some ice cream to eat by the water in Parksville.

Mud flats of Parksville		Flock of birds	Landing
Brenda, Zaven, Scott, Kat on Dusit powered tire swing	"To turn, turn, will be your delight..."	Deb on tire walk

We dropped Brenda off at Departure Bay and picked up some groceries to make pizza for dinner. Then we went to the video store for a movie. We settled on Dusit's pick of Whalerider, and he proceeded to sleep through the movie.

Pizza	Lynne and Spatz	City of SARS	"A light-hearted look..."
Amazing Thai! Why is it that Thai restaurants advertise on the back of SUVs?	War of attrition on the couch

2004-03-28

Kat made some yummy cinnamon buns for breakfast, then we went out and played some minigolf.

The Dusit hazard
	Matt has mad guitar skillz.

Matt played some guitar for us before we had to leave. We ended up missing the ferry again (we were just a bit too far back in line in Horseshoe Bay as well so Kat, Deb, Scott, and I played hackey sack in the waiting room). We killed another couple of hours in the ferry lineup (we replaced Scott with Zaven) hacking. The four of us finished the weekend with dinner at Wonton Noodle House. Yum yum.