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FAIRWELL TO NANAIMO
... THAT'S A LONG TIME, BUT IT SEEMS JUST YEARS AGO WHEN JOANNE WAS YOUNG AND BILLY WAS COURTING HER. I CAN REMEMBER THE ONE PARTY AT 413 MARJORIE ST. WHEN I WAS ALL OF 11 OR 12. THEY HAD ROLLED UP THE RUG, JIVE MUSIC WAS PLAYING AND EVERYONE WAS DANCING! THERE WAS A MICKEY HIDDEN IN THE BACK OF ...
FRIDAY IS BREAD DAY!
AT 6:45 A.M. I WOKE TO THE HUMM OF 6 BREAD MACHINES CHURNING AWAY AT THE DOUGH! IT WAS QUITE THE PROCESS SEEING ALL OF THEM WORKING AWAY AT BLENDING THE DOUGH AND THEN TAKEN OUT OF THE MACHINE TO BE KNEEDED AND SET TO RISE. BY THE END OF THE DAY THERE WAS THE EQUIVALENT OF 61 LOAVES OF BREAD, (SOME WERE MADE INTO BUNS). THERE ARE SOME SPECIAL ORDERS LIKE THE ONE FROM THE JUDGE WHO WANTS ONLY WHITE BREAD ...
Bathtub Racing? Not a Ship's tour
Despite being the “Bathtub racing capital of the world”, I never heard of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Given its native name, it wasn't named by the good captain.It is located only 70 kilometers from Vancouver so we just bobbed like a cork over from the city. Nanaimo is on the Eastern side if the island and is protected from the storms that roll in from the Pacific. You can't, after all, conduct bathtub races in rough seas.This being a wine cruise we take ...
To begin....
... don't know, I just finished my final semester at VIU in Global Studies and Economics. To finish off my degree I will be doing my internship in the camp working for the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) as Program Assistant. The main project I am working for is the Student Refugee Program (SRP), which provides refugee youth the opportunity to come to Canada, gain their citizenship, and be sponsored ...
Flappin' all the way to the USA! 1st Leg - Canada
... as i put it later on the trip! She doesn't know what to do with herself!! I somehow regain composure and explain everything in as much detail as I can. He goes away, checks the docs, looks in the 'trunk' and somehow, he lets us off without a ticket which would have been $220 we find out later on the drive! It turns out that smell was coming from Nicky's seat!
We did spend **** loads of 'Gas' but we're too scared to add the receipts up, I'm guessing $400?! ...
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