The Island... "home" sweet "home!

For those of you who know me pretty well, know that my parents moved from Vancouver up the coast of B.C. to an Island. For those of you who don't know me well, well you NOW know that. When did they move? you might ask.... When i left for university, they sold the house, and moved to the island. "Where the HELL is this Island" you will most definitely ask.

Start in vancouver, drive south 1/2 an hour to the Tsawwassen (pronounced Ta-Wass-En, NOT Saw-wass-en) Ferry terminal. Then take a 2 hour ferry ride to Nanimo, and drive up vancouver island to campbell river. Then another ferry, then another drive (up a winding dirt road) to the end of the road. Yes the END of the road. If you TRY to drive further you'll be driving down what's supposed to be a boat ramp into the ocean. THEN you hike to your boat, 'cause you can only get there with your own boat. And then you drive your boat across to the island where you hike up a 45 degree rock face slope to the house. THAT is where I live. NOW imagine doing all of that after a 4 hour flight to Edmonton with a layover then another 1.5 hour flight to Comox. LONG DAY!

So I arrived on Wednesday evening. I have spent the past two days chopping wood, cooking breakfast and dinner, watching the ocean, hiking, playing with dogs, watching the ocean, reading, working, watching the ocean. I'm putting in a picture of me and one of my puppies... it's not the best picture of me, but try taking a picture with a computer and a 3 second timer and a dog...

PUPPY!!!

Ok so moving on. I Do love it up here...it's amazing..it's pretty much the definition of heaven on earth. BUT i'm a little sore from all wood chopping, and by a little, i mean a LOT! But it feels good!

I've been planning and organizing the rest of my trip. There was a backpack fiasco, but it SHOULD all be worked out now thanks to my wonderful, fabulous, bomb diggity (seems appropriate for what she did) friend Meaghan. Now with that all said and done, there are just a couple final things to do and pick up before leaving on wednesday. I'm scared shitless and SUPER stoked! I had a bit of a stress today, but I think it'll all work out, and now i'm excited again.

Wow, this was kind of a boring post, sorry guys, but i had to write about the island, and show the picture of my puppy...so too bad! hahaha!