Feels a bit weird to get home

Well we spent a nice night with our pals Sal and Russ in Sooke, and we licensed and picked up the truck, so we both drove home to Nanaimo in separate cars on Friday as we stayed overnight with them.  It felt great to be home again, but of course after a long interval away we had some catching up to do.

 The dock area down by the water in Port Angeles, Washington on a foggy morning.

It had been quite foggy in Port Angeles, so we couldn't see the majestic Olympic Mountains, but catching the afternoon ferry at 2 PM was so much easier than catching the early morning one after 3 or 4 days of travel, it worked much better for us.  And we spent the whole 1.5 hour voyage aboard the Coho Ferry visiting with a couple who also winter in Desert Hot Springs at a nearby park, and live in Victoria.  They were Enid and Drew.  Small world indeed.

All well here at home, it is a nice home that we are very proud of.  The spring flowers like heather and pieris are blooming, and the pale pink rhododendron too is starting to bloom, but hey it's only mid April, and March here was rather chilly, so a lot of things normally blooming at this time of the year aren't ready yet.

 Nanaimo is pretty in spring time

The trees at the front corner of our complex are totally bare so far, but the neighbours beside us have a magnolia that is trying to bloom already.

Saturday we headed back down island to Brentwood School to meet our California cousins from Dana Point, there was a memorial sculpture unveiled in honour of our Dad, and I hadn't seen it, neither had the Californians. 

My aunt was a first cousin of my Dad, so also enjoyed seeing the newly installed sculpture, which is an eagle, with its wings wrapped around its front.

The four of them, and my sisters Sue and Jen, together with Lary and myself had a pleasant lunch visiting and catching up with the latest with them all.  Such a pleasure to keep in touch.

Sunday morning found us out with our Sunday morning group of friends for breakfast and at lunch there was a luncheon for Veterans, so we attended that too.

Today I was working on my I Pad trying to get it going and our pals Jet and Harold came over, he was helping Lary with our RV batteries, and Jet was helping me with the I Pad, trying to get that going for me.  Big help to us both.