It has been a very quick trip this time – at least it really feels that way. We have been so busy since we got to Los Barriles. Friends back home puzzle over what do we "DO?" Well, its a very social environment with lots of like minded people around our age, mostly retired.
I really enjoy playing Mah Jong with a group of women on Fridays. We play from 10 am till 4 with a very quick break for lunch. It is a challenging game and I would love to find some people to play with in Victoria.
I was taking yoga classes twice a week till I could no longer walk – I think the side plank did my hip in. I have bursitis! So, I never did get back to yoga, perhaps Karen’s classes in Metchosin or Peggy’s in Victoria will be better. I’ve been painting with the ladies at Sandy’s house every Thursday. What an encouraging group of painters! There was a three day acrylic class with Jennifer Bowman that I participated in along with 12 other women and tried my brush in acrylics. It’s a much more forgiving medium than water colors that’s for sure. Consequently I have been on ebay searching for good deals on acrylic paint – and finding lots of course. Its easier to buy and there is more available on the US ebay. Plus its much easier and cheaper to have things delivered to a US address – and items sell for less money than on Canadian ebay. In addition, many people won’t deliver to a Canadian address and if they do it is very expensive. So, thankfully we have a few friends in the US that will receive my parcels and we can pick them up on our way north.
Music has continued at Road Runner Café every Wednesday night. There have been some excellent musicians in town and a wide taste in music. A Sunday night jam has started at Vinny’s in Spa just 2 blocks from us. Vinney plays and teaches accordion. It has been quite interesting playing Bluegrass and blues with an accordion. Its been a lot of fun too. I much prefer the jamming to performing. Road Runner has standing room only on Wednesday nights now – 70 - 80 people is not unusual and Donna has been providing wonderful set meals. Everyone seems to really enjoy the musical diversity and people tend to come up and do 2 or 3 songs and leave so its nothing like a jam. The place to be on Wednesday nights is the Road Runner!
This is an aside as I'm writing this while driver er passengering North; [GASP! Good Grief! The road south of Catavina is the worst ever, there a holes and ruts and bumps and wind and uneven patches and bites out of the side and no shoulder and many many pieces of ripped up tire to demonstrate how bad it is for tires to drive on roads like this. Lorne reminded me that every year he gets two new tires for the front and moves the old ones back.]
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