Well it's been a long while since the last post, but this is largely because we lost our camera over Easter weekend in Vancouver. Not exactly sure where, but it seems to have disappeared. The last time we had it was in Jenny's apartment, but she hasn't seen it either.
We spent Easter weekend in Vancouver, where we went to meet Marie at the airport, flying in from Korea after 20 months away from Canada. Her brother Marc and his fiancée Mary came into town from Calgary for the weekend as well. We had a great time despite the terrible weather, and Jer and I even got to attend Claudia's third birthday party Saturday morning before Marie's flight arrived. We were also able to have a wonderful supper with Jenny and her boyfriend Leo, who was visiting from Germany, on Thursday night. (They then went to Vancouver Island for the weekend and we had a bit of an apartment swap.) Of course we have no pictures of any of this to post, due to the lost camera. I also ordered a spinning wheel while in Vancouver as there are no dealers on the island. They didn't have it in stock, unfortunately, so I won't actually get it until mid-May. After that, look forward to lots of posts about spinning (assuming we find our camera or get a new one).
Marie came back to Victoria with us Monday evening and stayed until Sunday night. It was just like in Halifax, it seemed so normal having her with us in the spare room with all the same furniture as her old room. We were very sad to see her go, but we spent a great week eating and drinking our way around town.
On the weekend it finally cleared up and we had a gloriously sunny Saturday and Sunday, with the air so clear we could see the mountains in Washington state across the Juan de Fuca Strait more clearly than I've seen them since moving here. We spent Saturday afternoon going for a hike out in East Sooke Regional Park with our friend Gerd, who took the pictures shown here. Unfortunately you can't see the crystal-clear mountains across the water behind us, or the pod of 100 or so orcas who put on a display for us in the channel. I've never seen so many whales in all my life. I was joking that BC was putting on a tourism commercial just for Marie's benefit, and all that we needed was a bald eagle to swoop down now to pick up a salmon and a bear standing over on the next rock. Not ten minutes after saying this a bald eagle really did come swooping down to pick a fish out of the water, which made us all look around nervously for the bear. Thankfully my second prediction did not come true, but this didn't stop Jeremi from asking me to predict that we'd come home to find a pig roasting on a spit in the back yard with barrels of beer waiting for us. Sadly, this prediction failed as well.
We'll see what we can do about finding some camera or other to continue posting things - we had some nice pictures of us digging our new vegetable garden in the back yard, and I'd love to show how the plants are doing, but it will have to wait.
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