Sunday, November 07, 2004
New Adventures, Pumpkins & Jiffy Markers
For the first time in my life I saw a pumpkin farm. And then things got a whole lot better!
Just a small warning this is going to be fairly lengthy, just so you all know before you continue.
THURSDAY
Last Thursday I was travelling from Calgary to Victoria. It's only an hour flight, but it was beautiful when we left Alberta, and all cloudy when we arrived on Vancouver Island. AJ's friend Marshall picked us up at the airport. Marsh is totaly awesome! Really funny guy, totally laid back! He gave us one of his trucks while we were there, gave us a place to crash, the whole nine yards.
We were starving hungry so mission #1 was to go for food. So this was the start of our adventure. We were travelling the highway from the airport into Victoria. Along the side of the road was a pumpkin farm. Yes, just a farm that grows pumpkins. Fields of big orange gourds used around Halloween. I'd never seen one before and I knew this was going to be a good trip because of it.
We ate at a totally cool pub called Spinaker's in Esquilmalt. We ate on the deck, which over looked the bay accross to Victoria. Totally beautiful scenery. The food was INCREDIBLE! Halibat was yummy, the nachos were great, the pork dumplings I'm not such a big fan of ... but Marshall and AJ devoured those. Good food, and a few drinks later the heads started to hit the table. The plan of attack was to go for a big coffee.
On the drive from Spinakers to "coffee" I was introduced to "battle". AJ and Marshall seem to have a tradition that when they get together then spend the entire time kicking the crap out of each other. So we were driving through Victoria and AJ was lying down in the back seat of the truck. From out of nowhere Marshall hauls off and swings around while driving, giving Age the biggest charlie horse I had ever been witness too. So now AJ is screeming like a wounded wombat, and Marshall is laughing in an uncontrollable manner. This was just the start of the battle.
We went to the snotty part of Victoria (Oak Bay?) I'm not familar with the sections yet. We went to this quirky little cafe for coffee. It had a sushi restaraunt, an etheopian restaraunt, and thai place, and in the middle, this little coffee bar where we got the _best_ coffee ever. The coast has good coffee and a bazillion coffee shops. Everywhere you turn is a coffee shop, and not redneck donut stores, I mean cafes a plenty, and coffee beans galore. All this talk of coffee made us go in search of cool coffee mugs at Walmart. Marsh got two of the silver fat bottomed stainless steel ones that don't slide of your car, AJ got one too. I ended up buying a hideous mammoth oragne Bubba Travel Keg coffee mug. It was quite the treat. So now we were prepared for the night's activities. We made a stop at the liquor store and then to Marshall's house.
Marsh's house is wicked cool! It was the house Nelly Furtado grew up in. Her father was a mason, so there is lots of cool stone work. Let me tell you something though. Houses in Victoria are not made for large people. AJ and myself bashed and cranked our heads into doorways, pillars, ceilings and I'm quite sure something else along the way. So remember to duck.
Marshall has started a land scaping business (Islandscape Landscaping?) Sorry if I got it wrong. If you live in Victoria then look him up for all your land scaping needs! He totally redid his yard AWESOME! His driveway is very, very narrow. So it was a treat backing into it, and apparently much harder when the trailer is hitched up (like 40 mins to back into your house).
Marshall lives with two amazingly beautiful roommates. Karen and Melissa. These ladies are gorgeous, smart, sweet, funny. They have it all! And it seems as though Thursday nights are ladies T.V. nights. They tape America's Top Model from the night before, and watch it before The Apprentice, but without commercials of course! America's top Model is the cream of the crop show. Hot models, getting half naked, and then someone gets voted out. What gets better than that? And then finding out who gets fired next? It's quite the treat. I must say however that Melissa gets extraordinarily involved in the action on television. I've never seen anyone get so mad at people inside the tele? I think I'm hooked on the shows now just because of you Melissa!
That basically brought to a close our Thursday Adventure in Victoria. It's just too long to keep going, so I will continue my trip in a new entry. ¶ 1:14:00 PM
Just a small warning this is going to be fairly lengthy, just so you all know before you continue.
THURSDAY
Last Thursday I was travelling from Calgary to Victoria. It's only an hour flight, but it was beautiful when we left Alberta, and all cloudy when we arrived on Vancouver Island. AJ's friend Marshall picked us up at the airport. Marsh is totaly awesome! Really funny guy, totally laid back! He gave us one of his trucks while we were there, gave us a place to crash, the whole nine yards.
We were starving hungry so mission #1 was to go for food. So this was the start of our adventure. We were travelling the highway from the airport into Victoria. Along the side of the road was a pumpkin farm. Yes, just a farm that grows pumpkins. Fields of big orange gourds used around Halloween. I'd never seen one before and I knew this was going to be a good trip because of it.
We ate at a totally cool pub called Spinaker's in Esquilmalt. We ate on the deck, which over looked the bay accross to Victoria. Totally beautiful scenery. The food was INCREDIBLE! Halibat was yummy, the nachos were great, the pork dumplings I'm not such a big fan of ... but Marshall and AJ devoured those. Good food, and a few drinks later the heads started to hit the table. The plan of attack was to go for a big coffee.
On the drive from Spinakers to "coffee" I was introduced to "battle". AJ and Marshall seem to have a tradition that when they get together then spend the entire time kicking the crap out of each other. So we were driving through Victoria and AJ was lying down in the back seat of the truck. From out of nowhere Marshall hauls off and swings around while driving, giving Age the biggest charlie horse I had ever been witness too. So now AJ is screeming like a wounded wombat, and Marshall is laughing in an uncontrollable manner. This was just the start of the battle.
We went to the snotty part of Victoria (Oak Bay?) I'm not familar with the sections yet. We went to this quirky little cafe for coffee. It had a sushi restaraunt, an etheopian restaraunt, and thai place, and in the middle, this little coffee bar where we got the _best_ coffee ever. The coast has good coffee and a bazillion coffee shops. Everywhere you turn is a coffee shop, and not redneck donut stores, I mean cafes a plenty, and coffee beans galore. All this talk of coffee made us go in search of cool coffee mugs at Walmart. Marsh got two of the silver fat bottomed stainless steel ones that don't slide of your car, AJ got one too. I ended up buying a hideous mammoth oragne Bubba Travel Keg coffee mug. It was quite the treat. So now we were prepared for the night's activities. We made a stop at the liquor store and then to Marshall's house.
Marsh's house is wicked cool! It was the house Nelly Furtado grew up in. Her father was a mason, so there is lots of cool stone work. Let me tell you something though. Houses in Victoria are not made for large people. AJ and myself bashed and cranked our heads into doorways, pillars, ceilings and I'm quite sure something else along the way. So remember to duck.
Marshall has started a land scaping business (Islandscape Landscaping?) Sorry if I got it wrong. If you live in Victoria then look him up for all your land scaping needs! He totally redid his yard AWESOME! His driveway is very, very narrow. So it was a treat backing into it, and apparently much harder when the trailer is hitched up (like 40 mins to back into your house).
Marshall lives with two amazingly beautiful roommates. Karen and Melissa. These ladies are gorgeous, smart, sweet, funny. They have it all! And it seems as though Thursday nights are ladies T.V. nights. They tape America's Top Model from the night before, and watch it before The Apprentice, but without commercials of course! America's top Model is the cream of the crop show. Hot models, getting half naked, and then someone gets voted out. What gets better than that? And then finding out who gets fired next? It's quite the treat. I must say however that Melissa gets extraordinarily involved in the action on television. I've never seen anyone get so mad at people inside the tele? I think I'm hooked on the shows now just because of you Melissa!
That basically brought to a close our Thursday Adventure in Victoria. It's just too long to keep going, so I will continue my trip in a new entry. ¶ 1:14:00 PM
