Its been a pretty awesome trip so far. I left Kamloops about 11 oclock Nov. 1st. I saw that there was going to be snow on the 2nd so I left a day early. Plus I needed to get down here for an appointment. Its a good thing I left when I did. The next day the Coqihalla was closed in two places.
I took five hours to get here. Normally it would be three and a half but I stopped in Merritt for coffee. Then I stopped at the old toll station and had a half hour snooze. Then I stopped at the flying J just past Hope for coffee. Mozie...thats what I did. I got here around four.
This is one beat up motel room. My bed is totally broken, the iron cross bar under the bed is lying freely on the floor. The bed is sagging badly and the top is on a different bar and the bottom is lying on the floor. But its really comfortable so I don't
care.
One of the reasons for the trip down was a rugby game. The New Zealand Blacks vs. The Canadians. The Blacks put on a pretty good show at the start of the game and also at half time. There were 30 thousand people there and we had absolutely the best time. My niece Jeni from Calgary arranged it all and twelve of us, all family, bought tickets from her and met at Gate E!! So as we munched hot dogs, pop corn, guzzled beer and wine, we hollered for Canada and the Blacks. After the game we all congregated at Boston Pizza. What a hoot the whole night was!!!
Right near the motel here is a Vietnamese Pho place. OMG!!! The food is unbelievable. I wish we had a place like this in Kamloops. We have gone there several times now and its been amazing each time...and full in there.
The funniest, awful thing happened just before I came down here. It was the end of the Kiwanis meeting. We were all kind of tying things up and moving around. I checked my phone and I saw April sent a couple of messages. So I opened the first one. It was a picture of her in her halloween makeup. People gathered around to see a pic of my daughter. It was so good!
Then I scrolled down to the next post. I was expecting another shot of her but.... it was a pic of a naked man, laying down with a 'ahem' fully blown up appendage, covered with a white hankie. It was wiggling and the heading was "Halloweenie" I will post a pic at the bottom.
Well Jeez!! At first there was a collective gasp from the gathered crowd, then, thank goodness, collective laughter. I was pretty embarrassed. This is an older pretty staid crowd. The gal next to me insisted I send it to her! She really thought it was funny. So I did. She looked at her phone and it didn't come through. Odd, I thought. So I sent it again...and again. Nope! Nothing. Finally I emailed it to her instead of texting it.
Then...horror of horrors I realized that Michelle, her name, is under a phone number in my contacts...not a name. The Michelle I was texting it to is a very prudish, kind, church going lady I barely know. She was to have been only a temporary contact and I had never deleted her. OMG!! I had to send numerous apologies. I am not sure if she got them or not!
This week passed pretty quickly. Monte had a couple of pretty awful days but seemed to bounce back at the end. His new psychologist is a miracle! He understands Monte so well and is helping him come to terms with his illness and possible prognosis. I think things will end well eventually. One thing he has been pretty clear about...Monte has been totally screwed over at every level by the medical community. Hes pretty sure there is a lawsuit there. I don't know...we will wait and see.
So now I am at Aryn's for a few days, a few busy days. Lots of plans. One of them is I am going to go to a medical clinic right near hear to see a doctor. I need to renew my pills and I want to check my blood pressure. Its so
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| I DECIDED NOT TO BLOW THIS UP |
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| INDIGEMOUS PEOPLE AT HALF TIME |
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| AN ENORMOUS HUGE NOT DOG...THE WIDTH OF THE SEAT IN FRONT OF ME |
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| THE ALL BLACKS PUTTING ON THEIR PRE GAME PERFORMANCE |
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| SELFIE TIME |
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| MY BED MATE...WRANGLER |
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