My (sort of) vacation
May 28, 2011
If there’s one place I can never get sick of, it’s Vancouver island. Granted I haven’t traveled very much in my life so far. Right now it’s spring which means it is mostly cold, rainy, and dark. 3 things I (and most people I’m sure) absolutely hate, and yet it still manages to be so beautiful. The lush green forests and fresh salty air. I only got to stay there for four days, I miss it so much already.
But the point of the trip was to visit my grandma. Unfortunately she lives about 16 hours away from us, so we don’t get to visit her as often as we’d like. The rest of my family made the trip a few times but this was my first in 3 or 4 years. It was a good visit even though with my grandma being 91, there wasn’t much we could do but sit and talk.
I just love my grandma’s personality. I don’t know if it’s something that has come with old age, or if it’s how she’s always been, but she is not the slightest bit afraid to speak her mind. If you piss her off you she will definitely let you know, but in the sweetest way.
“Now I’m going to say something and you might not like it, but don’t you get upset with me…”
Or she told me “I have to tell you this, I don’t think you should go to the beach by yourself. I’m not trying to tell you what to do, I’m just telling you I think you shouldn’t.”
She just has a strange way of announcing when she’s going to say something, I find it so adorable. She’s a tough old woman with the biggest heart and I got a bit choked up when she said “I’m going to say something I don’t say very often, I love you all very dearly. Maybe I don’t always show it, but I do.”
She always shows it.
A couple days into the visit we were starting to get a bit stir crazy, so we took a trip to the west coast of the island. Where the east coast is fairly calm and great for lounging on the beach, the west coast is where the surfers catch the much bigger waves. That’s probably common knowledge to anybody who knows anything about the ocean, but it was my first time there soo it was news to me. Anyway it was about 14 degrees and extremely windy, there were a few crazy people surfing but the beach was pretty dead. We stopped at a few tourist places and took some pictures (terribly disappointing ones, I need to work on my photography skills) and it was a pretty good day. Then we had to pack up and come back to (ugh) Alberta.
Going there we took two days, stopping for the night at about the halfway point. That was a long enough drive. On the way back we decided to do it all at once. I could wait another four years before I do that again.
