June 9- (9AM)It rained hard last night-poured and pounded on the cabintop. This morning we are finding a few more drips. After a while things get so soggy, it can't be helped. And, after being in the cabin for hours, condensation happens all over the cabintop and drips down on us. It's a soggy morning. Gary has gone off with the MD to Vancouver, and we're having a reading day.
3PM We had breakfast, checked the emails, had showers, went to the grocery and now I'm doing laundry. Gary is back from the MD and he has a fungus infection in his eye and he has to keep taking the rx he has with him. He also has to wash his eye out each day with baby shampoo! He takes a light solution of shampoo and Q-Tips and wipes it across his eye lids! Never heard of that, but if it works, OK.
We have plans tomorrow to take the ferry to the mainland and then a bus to Vancouver for some sightseeing. We don't know what we'll see, but we'll work on it when we get there. I'll do a little research to see what we might do while we are over there. We just have to make sure we can get the bus and the ferry back to Bowen Island by the late afternoon.
People here are amazing. I already told you about the MD for Gary. Well, the owners of the marina called his own opthamologist in Vancouver and asked her to speak to Gary on the phone, making the arrangements then to meet him at the ferry at 7:15 this morning and then in her car to her office to check him out. Then today Gary wanted fuel for the boat and he found out there is a gas station about a mile and a half away, all up hill. Gary had general directions, so he started up the hill, carrying his 5 gal can with him, and stopped at the grocery store to ask for real directions. After he asked at the counter for directions, a woman customer at the store told him she would drive him up there to the gas station. He got his gas and she drove him back to the marina! Then, we were on the boat, talking about dinner. I'm making chicken parmesan I brought with me, and I asked Brynn to bring a salad if she had some green things. She said she did not have any more lettuce, so we discussed that for a minute. She got ready to leave the boat and two men in a boat next to us said they had lettuce and cucumbers their wives had packed and they wouldn't eat it, so why didn't we have it to go with our meal!
This is a really amazing marina. The new wash rooms are housed in a floating building at the head of the dock. They have an office with chandlery items and upstairs is a state of the art room with three showers, $1 for 10 mins in the shower, a large toilet room with great mirrors and liquid soap. Then, there is a new washer and dryer and computers and a flat screen TV for dvds or TV watching. It is really a great place. Even has a table if you wanted to play a game of cards. Lovely leather couch to sit on and relax while the dryer is going. We could come here for a week and make me happy.
I'll post again tomorrow when we have more news about our visit to Vancouver and/or the weather. September Time is meeting us in Silva Bay, but we expect Spika to show up today for the night anyway. It's turned out to be a nice day after all. Jim and Virginia
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