November 2 to Nov. 7, 2005

We are back from Vancouver Island. We had fair weather going over on the ferry (didn't rain). Cost $58. each way OUCH!!!!! Visited with Vals cousin, Gladys and her husband George, also aunts and uncles. Had a great time. Went to Jordan River along the coast, north of Sooke and watched surfers and kayakers. It wasn't warm and I thought they were brave souls to attempt that.
Sunday, the 6th, we visited Val's friend Tony and had dinner at Tony's daughter Willow. The next day, we took the ferry at Mill Bay ($16.) to save time and fuel cost but I am not sure we gained anything. We barely made the 9 o'clock ferry back to the mainland. At least we had a sunny day, finally!!!

After picking up the 5er at O'Connor, we came back to Camperland and set up camp. We had the shower fixed (O'Connor paid for that) and had some cover for the vents moved and new ones installed. Now, all the vents on the roof are protected.

Monday evening, we went to watch Vanessa play. A very important game for them and they won both matches. What a game...lots of excitement. My voice is raw today. Her dad and Graeme(brother) made an intro video of the team and they showed it that night. What a wonderful thing. The girls were really proud and excited. The fact that they won also helped.

Today, Tuesday the 7th, I took the truck over to the garage as I had an appointment and am getting the rear brakes fix. Learned that the calibers need replacing and the rotors turned. Will also replace two rear pads so that everything is new back there. That should be it for repair. Knock on wood!!!!

Our plans now are to leave next Sunday as the kids are not going to be home Monday the 14th so no sense of us hanging around for nothing. We will stop in Ferndale for the night to check it out than onwards to Boise, Idaho.

By the way, I've updated the album "our kids" and made a new one call " Claude & Val family" at our pictures at Picture trail so check out the link on the right and click on "my pictures".

catch you all later

Travel Maps for Oct 25

Our route to Chilliwack; hwy 1 to Hwy 5, south to Hope and Hwy 1 again, to exit for Bridalfall and camperland

A close up to our position in reference to Chilliwack

Oct 27 to 31st, 2005

Hello again, I thought I would make one last entry before the end of the month. I am writing this at our site in camperland. I found out this past week-end that they have cable here and we can hook-up to it. This makes it a lot easier.

So far, we are enjoying ourselves here. The site is good and we have easy access to Chilliwack and Vancouver. The weather has been somewhat cooperative although we've had some heavy rains. We've also a fair share of sunshine so although I love complaining about Chilliwack weather, it hasn't been all that bad.

This past week-end was busy. The girls, Hayley and Vanessa, were playing in voleyball tournament so of course, we were attending most of them. Hayley was playing in Chilliwack and Vanessa was in Abbotsford, 30 miles(50km) away. It was fun and they played well. On Sunday, we went to Vancouver to visit Val's daughter Joanne and her husband John and of course, Jenaya. She is now in the terrible two. What an active bundle of joy. She is so cute but of course, we are not prejudice at all.

This coming week, Nov 2, we are headed to Sooke on Vancouver Island to visit some of Val's relatives. We will return on Monday Nov.7. We will be dropping off our fifth wheel at O'Connor to get a leak fix in the shower and pick it up on the way back from the Island.

We also returned our little dehumidifier that we had purchased at O'Connor as it wasn't doing the job. We bought another one at Sears and it's doing a great job, although with the furnace, the TV and that machine, it makes for a noisy environment. However in this weather, it is a blessing in disguise as it does keep the humidity at a manageable level.

Going through a fair amount of propane. Had to refill one tank Sunday after filling both before we came down here.

That's it for now. By the way, we had heavy rain last night and it is cloudy right now at a comfortable 9 degrees Celsius (48 Farenheit)

Oct 25 to 27th 2005

Well, we did leave for Chilliwack where I am writing this. We left at 10:30 a.m. and arrived in Chilliwack around 4 p.m., just before the rain. Got settled after a little argument about how many weeks we can stay.

Average about 9 mpg which is not too bad considering we went over the Coquihalla which is quite a climb.

Caught up with all the laundry and some chores. Visited with the kids and will be going to Vancouver Island next week.

Found a leak in the 5er which I suspect is coming from the shower. While on the Island, O'Connor RV will look it over. Will also get another canopy installed to cover the opening above the shower.

Oct 24

Val really liked George's hat! YES! She did spilled that glass later when it was full!!!!!!! :-)


New friends we met at our site, George and Paulette with Tucker. Not a very complimentary picture of Paulette but we were ALL under the influence by the end of the evening when this was taken. Sorry Paulette!
They are also full-timer from Alberta and travel in their motorhome. The bought a site around the corner from where we are.