Victory Lap

This last week has been time for my mom to see some of BC with me, because she quite simply could. Mom was really looking forward to this week for a while from what I've heard, so she certainly wanted to do a bunch of stuff here.

Day one I just didn't do anything at all. It was the first time in a long time I could say that and mean it. The only thing I really did was we went out to dinner ironically at a Russian restaurant in the area. It was more of a diluted experience, since the waitresses could speak proper english as opposed to the broken up Russian version I was used to. Also, the portions were westernized as well. A skewer of shashlik in Russia was about 12 inches at the most. Here in Vancouver it was a 20 inch skewer. I got to use the few words of Russian I know to say thank you to the host, who showed me his collection of jerseys given to his establishment by Pavel Bure, because he used to frequent that restaurant when he played for the Canucks.

The next day we took a ferry and went to Victoria, which was pretty small. We had quite an eventful ferry trip, there was a man overboard drill, and we got to see the local soccer team the Vancouver Whitecaps on bard as well. That whole day was spent walking around the town, which is quite small so we got to see most of the places of interest. I also got to say goodbye the the jazz guys as well, which was good.

Then we got to visit the Vancouver aquarium the next day, which was fun. We walked the whole thing and saw most of what was there, and I also got spit on by a beluga whale. Splendid.

Then we had to get everything ready for home. So I grabbed some of my gear I couldn't take, sold my pair of pads for $50 (considering how used they are, it's a small miracle in my opinion), and started to pack to go. We tried to meet my goalie coach as well, but that whole thing crashed and burned. I waited on a bench for about 2 hours without success. Hopefully, he'll meet us at the airport tomorrow.

Well, that's it. I'll be in NS within 36 hours, which is a welcome concept.

Arrivederci.