o! canada!

This past weekend Beanie left Cleveland and flew to Seattle and hooked up with long-time Seattlite Tommy and came up here. Together we all went to Vancouver BC and Bowen Island. We'd have gotten there sooner but we were the first car turned away from the 9:30 Pete Townsend ferry to Keystone. The 12:15 was canceled due to extreme low tide. Dammit! We had to drive south to Kingston and take the boat to Edmonds and start our trip a lot further south than we wanted to. Oh well.

This part of the world is beautiful. Amazingly so, and I thought I lived in heaven itself. The views from pretty much everywhere were breathtaking.

Now I know that my blog friend ellipsis despises Canadians and to each his own I guess, but dammit to hell this particular bunch of Canuckistanis were great hosts, great cooks, great sports and great fun. I learned the appropriate technique for initiating a fight while playing hockey. I learned the appropriate technique for adjusting, uh, well junk that I don't have in my pants but you get the idea. I learned that no matter how much chocolate there is, Beanie will still be drawn to the stuff from Ecuador like a moth to the flame. I learned that waitresses aren't the least interested in knowing how much earlier in the day you switched from drinking beer to drinking wine. And I learned that everything that is said about BC bud is deliciously true.

Mostly I learned that it is indeed possible to laugh continuously for three days and not damage much of anything. Certainly not reputations. What happens on Bowen Island stays on Bowen Island.

I'm going to go back soon and often.

Here are some pictures. Enjoy!