News from BC

Tuesday, october 25th, 5am, it's time to go to the airport. When we arrive at the airport, we had breakfest and then went to our gate. 30 minutes later we were on the plane. Half the plane was japanese, quite impressive. We had a movie during the flight, It was suppose to be "Batman Begins" (or "Batman Starts" like our captain said !!) but instead we had "Game of their lifes". It was a movie about a US soccer team which goes to the "World Cup of Soccer" and won a game 1-0 and that's about it... I would prefer Batman for sure. I didn't really watch the movie because I was in the first row, right in front of the big screen, so it was kinda hard for my neck! By chance I had my MP3 player. Flight was about 5 hours to get to Vancouver. Then we switch to a small plane of about 40 places and 15 minutes later we were on the Vancouver Island in Victoria. Next step get the rental car. I got an American car with some "wood" part in it. This is so ugly ! This car is way bigger then mine so I had some difficulties to park it. Took me about 2-3 try each times. Then we go to the plant in Victoria. We stayed there until 9pm. That was a hell of a long day. We go back to check-in at our hotel (Holiday Inn) and then had lunch at the restaurant in the hotel...

Next day I woke up a 6am and I went to the Safeway store do to the DEX testing (see previous post), It didn't work and maybe this thing will be cancelled cause we spend too much time on it. After I went back to the plant. We were 7 in there with our laptop computer in a small room. Two girls went to buy some candies and they came back with some Kit-Kat banana flavor !! It was not bad.... It was another long day, like 12 hours.

Thursday, I had to go to Cassidy, which is about 1h15min from Victoria. Road to go there was very nice (pictures to come). Big moutains, couple of islands which I could see from my car. I go trought a city called Duncan. There was totems everywhere along the road. Also there is a huge hockey stick on one of the building. Weird city... Day was quite boring over there so nothing much to say. At around 5pm I came back to Victoria to have lunch (and beers). There was a hockey game Vancouver-Colorado. Funny thing is when I watch hockey in Montreal, I'm the only one (or almost) taking for the other team. And even in here, I was the only one cheering for the Colorado because thats my #1 team! They won 6-2 so I was happy about that! There is another game between those 2 teams on friday night so I'll be there again.

Friday - nothing to say, work from 8am to 6:30pm, sleep at 10pm!

Sunday I'm heading north to see the Sequoias. I've been told those trees were like 200 foot tall and 10 foot wide ! It will be the fun part of this trip !

Thats it for now. Pictures are coming in my next post if my next hotel room at Nanaimo has Internet access !!