Sunday ; Sunny, +10° C.
Started the day with resetting all clocks and watches to daylight savings time. Then cleared and reconfigured our suite’s dinette table, converting it from my office back into what it really is ; our suite’s dinette table ! HA HA HA ! That included going to the Robin Hood Inn’s front desk and requesting a fourth dinette chair. Our suite had only three dinette chairs, and we needed a fourth to accommodate Lorraine and Grant for supper tonight. (This afternoon, actually !) They are back from their adventure to Tofino on the other side of Vancouver Island.
As Lorraine and Grant are departing for home in Winnipeg early tomorrow morning ... (middle of the night, actually !) ... and we won’t have any further need to accommodate passengers in our minivan, this afternoon I reconfigured the seating in our minivan, “stowing and going” the two middle row bucket seats.
At 3:30 PM Joanne phoned a take-out order into Syriana Restaurant. I immediately left to go pick up the order at 4 PM, stopping on the way to refill the minivan with fuel at Esso. I picked up the order at Syriana at 4 PM and was back home at Robin Hood Inn by 4:15 PM. Lorraine and Grant had already arrived. We chatted and ate supper and chatted more, until they were ready to leave around 6:30 PM to return to their B&B room to prepare for departure and sleep for a few hours.
<waving> Bye !
Monday ; Overcast, windy and cold, +7° C.
BRRRRR ... winter seems to have returned to Victoria. And this cold spell is forecast to last all week. Maybe even snow ! Which has not happened (yet !) this winter in Victoria.
This afternoon I finished reconciling our February investment statements, did a bit of work on our income tax returns, and trimmed my beard. I have gone almost as far as possible in preparing our income tax returns until I receive some additional tax information slips which are not due until the end of March. HMPH !
Tuesday ; Overcast, windy and cold, +7° C.
This morning I paid the final monthly “rent” payment on our one bedroom suite at Robin Hood Inn & Suites. After lunch Apollo and I napped while Joanne went shopping at Country Grocer. Later I did some fitness program planning and car purchase planning. Fitness program starts upon our return home in another month. Car purchase likely about a year from now.
Wednesday ; Raining, cold, +5° C.
BRRR ... winter has arrived in Victoria ! HA HA HA !
While I napped with Apollo after lunch Joanne went out to run errands at Dollarama and Fairway Market. Upon her return we went to Burnside Boutique, a local thrift store, to drop off some clothing donations and browse. We didn’t buy anything. Apollo enjoyed going for a “drivey”.
I spent probably too much time today watching a series of videos about a female social media “influencer” and incompetent private pilot in Tennessee who killed herself and her father when she crashed her airplane. (Thanks, Doug)
We had dinner tonight while watching Survivor 50.
Today was the first monthly payment of our (complicated) annuity pension benefits administered by our new financial advisor in Winnipeg. Flawless ! Thank you !
Thursday ; Raining, cold, +4° C.
We had an early supper tonight, then left at 6:30 PM heading downtown to attend a special performance of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Theatre at 7 PM. We parked in the parkade underneath the library and walked half a block to the Royal Theatre in the cold rain. BRRR ... just like winter !
Tonight’s concert was a live performance of the soundtrack to the 1985 movie Back To The Future starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd while the movie played on a giant screen above the orchestra. We thought it was a great movie in 1985. And it was even better 41 years later, with live orchestral accompaniment ! BRAVO ! Well done, VSO !
It was a great “date night”.
Apollo stayed alone in our suite for 3½ hours and was sleeping peacefully on the bed when we returned home at 10 PM. Very good dog, Apollo !
Friday ; Overcast, +6° C.
When Housekeeping showed up at 12:30 PM (while we were eating lunch !) to service our room we left to go Wal-Martin’ at Uptown (mall). Later in the afternoon we gave Apollo a partial haircut ; face and feet.
Saturday ; Sunny (finally !), +8° C.
After an early lunch we left our suite at 12:30 PM (without Apollo) and headed north on the Saanich Peninsula to Sidney, on the northern tip of the peninsula, where the airport and ferry terminal are located. Our destination was the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea, an aquarium.
We arrived about 1:15 PM, parked in their parkade, then spent about an hour and a half exploring the aquarium, including many huge glass tanks filled with sea creatures, and large touch tanks, where one can reach into and gently touch the many different sea creatures within. OH, BOY ... I felt like an eleven year old ! ! ! HA HA HA !
The aquarium was fascinating !
We left the aquarium’s parkade and found a parking spot on the street a short distance away in downtown Sidney, near the thrift stores Joanne wanted to visit. She thought there were five thrift stores in close proximity. I found a sixth ! We browsed each store, each of us buying a pair of pants at the last one, a thrift store operated by a local animal rescue organization. That was the one I found, the sixth one, and the one where I was most pleased to leave some money behind.
We arrived back home at 4:30 PM. We found Apollo asleep on the bed. He had been alone for 4½ hours. Very good dog, Apollo !
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