Ok it's time for my weekly post
It was Thankgiving in Canada this past week and the whole darn family went to Victoria. A couple of members were already there, but those that weren't had to plane, ferry and automobile to get there (some, like hubby, all the way from New York). .
Actually, it wasn't really a celebration of Thanksgiving at all - my aunt had just decided about a month or so ago that it was time for a family trip. Thanksgiving was deemed the best weekend for it. It also turned out to be the Victoria marathon, much to my dismay. I had kinda been thinking that I should do the Victoria half, but still thought I had time to sign up - after all, it wasn't till October. I'm still believing that we're in the middle of summer.
It was a great time - Victoria certainly feels like a foreign country somehow. The weather was perfect - crisp fall days. We went to the Sooke Potholes, made famous by Nelly Furtado's quest to save them. That reminds me that I should make a donation to TLC (the land conservancy). There were some cutish boys smoking pot by the water which caused my mom to be quite alarmed. She was convinced they were going to do something crazy like jump off a cliff (pot does induce hallucinations and feelings of supernatural power you know). To me, they seemed to enjoying the outdoors and did not appear to be the young hooligans that my mom believed them to be.
We went for Chinese food that night - much to my sister's chagrin we got put at the table where the "white" food was ordered. Hubby liked it as he got to eat things he doesn't normally get to eat like fried rice and fried noodles.
Well, I could go on and on, we packed so much into the weekend including swimming in the fabulous pool of the Oxford Castles motel - one of the shwankier places I think the family has stayed, but instead I will just tell you about where we had turkey dinner. The four mile house on the road to Sooke - it was great. There were 17 of us and most of us ordered turkey dinner (14.95) and it was almost as good as mom's. We got tons of turkey and actual vegetables that were not mush! Even my sister the cook (who takes the joy out of eating out a lot of the time as she usually points out eh flaws in the food and also that she could make it better) said it was good.
So I recommend it - the restaurant was housed in a 150 year old house that was one of the highway stops. It was very cosy and our server (who may also have been the owner) was great.
Well, that's enough for this week. I will just point out that my diet is not so good when I'm on my own. Tonight I had wine, salad (ok that's not bad), pudding, neighbour B's fantastic bread pudding, movie popcorn, seven up and a chickn wrap.
posted by Renee @ 10:14 PM
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