PORT ALBERNI

No offense to anyone at home, but it was such an awesome feeling getting into my car and just taking off.  Its a three hour drive to Port and I enjoyed every single minute of it.  I listened to talk radio, stopped at outhouses (shovel list but necessary), (actually, I am getting tired of being grateful for stinky green outhouses), stopped in Nanaimo at the fat lady store and found awesome stuff, mosied on through some of the most beautiful countryside BC has to offer and arrived in mid afternoon at Monte's.

His place was pretty clean for a non processing, low energy, uninterested in all things domestic, guy's house.  And it smelled good.  We took off immediately and went out for lunch in his fave spot, and it must be because the little gal serving knew exactly what his order would be!.  We then headed out way past Port to scope out a property for Aryn…she is doing a mortgage on it.  Sooooo beautiful.  I love Port Alberni.

We went shopping.  Monte mentioned that his bestest friends across the street, Pat and Ange, were right smack in the middle of a switch over from weekly paycheques to monthly, and the result of this was…they had no food til their next cheque at the end of the month.  So he shopped for them.  I couldn't believe how well he knew their food choices, what they ate and how much joy it gave him to do this for his friends.  It was a pretty awesome grocery shopping trip! 

 And then of course the joy of bringing it home and giving it to them.  They accepted the gift so graciously and joyously!  The whole experience was truly heartwarming.

Monte and Pat went out and played pool for a while last night, which of course left me home alone…not something I get very often.  Just me and his dog!  And his dog promptly lay down, put his head on my feet and went to sleep.  

Monte has a little room, about the size of Purple Room.  He has this remarkable huge awesome tv, two giant comfy old Sally Ann rocking chairs and a random electric organ in there.  I  hunkered down in one of those comfy chairs, got my technology all around and hooked up, tv clicker in hand….ahhhhhhhhh!  Happy happy…and that is where I slept.  Really well too.

Now its halfway through today, I just called Monte and told him its time to get a move on.  I don't know what we are up to today but its time to get it going!  TTYL