ROAD TRIP!

Off to Victoria today.  Taking Pete down to his new abode! I am seriously going to miss him:(  He is going to try it out down there for a couple of months.  If he can't hack it he will be back.  He said he would get a Covid test before coming back.  One part of me wants him to not be able to hack it!  But the other part knows I want him to succeed too.

We are planning to stop at Wendy's in Nanaimo.  We are so deprived here!!!  There are a few places but Wendy's is our fave fave.  Such good food.  Graeme isn't coming with us so I can leave Wrangler here.

Last night we made buffalo wings, super from scratch!  Dredge the thawed wings in flour and deep fry ten minutes, into a bowl and toss with homemade buffalo sauce.  I found a stellar recipe on allrecipes.com and Graeme made it.  We also made asian wings.  Soooo good.  We also had another round of shelled peas and picked from our garden salad.  I made a lemon pie for dessert..pics below. Peter said it was the best meal he had here!  Jeez!  If I had known how much he liked wings I would have done it a whole lot more...especially now we have that amazing fryer.  But from now on its going to be an almond flour dredge and peri peri powder.  No more sauces.

Monte and I have been going out everyday for drives, picture hunts, shopping etc.  A couple of times we had lunch somewhere.  Yesterday we went to a taco place not far from here.  Now, I am not a real fan of Mexican food.  Especially tacos.  As Bill always said he didn't want to pay good money for plates of beans and rice.  But let me tell you..he would have LOVED the food at Porto Taco!!!  It was unbelievable.  Fresh, flavourful, beautiful.  I wish I had taken pics of it!  Maybe we can take Graeme there before he leaves in a few days and this time I will take pics.  If any of you come to visit....we will take you too!!!

We made a trip out to the bridge a few miles on the highway towards Tofino.  The First Nations people will often sell sockeye there....and the sockeye are running!  We want to get some fish and instead of filleting them we will cut them into thick steaks, you know, the u shaped ones.  They are much easier to bbq and there is absolutely not one ounce of wasted meat.  Nothing like fish straight out of the water!

Well there isn't much else to report.  Town is incredibly full of tourists.  I can't go into Walmart or Save-on anymore...just too many people that aren't from Port.  I don't trust them.  None of them social distance or wear masks.  They are hooked up to giant trailers or loaded up with full campers, a lot of them towing boats.  They have to go through Port to go to Ukey or Tofino and they stop to do their last shopping here.  So frigging disrespectful.  Mask up and stay your distance people and keep moving.  Let Tofino deal with you.

Off to Victoria.  Kind of a sad day.  I shall report tomorrow.  Stay safe peeps and mask up!!!!  TTYL

I LOVE MASKING UP....HIDES MY CHINS

I LOVE THE COLOURS

MY LEMON PIE....FRUIT INSTEAD OF MERINGUE

BUFFALO WINGS