Saying Goodbye

Like most of our recent weekends, this one was a busy one. Unlike the recent weekends, we only had two days to cram everything in. Friday night we headed up to Sombrio Beach to celebrate Josh's birthday.

Life's a beach.

After some early struggles with the fire were out of the way, we relaxed with some beers. The weather was just about perfect. As night fell, the skies cleared and there were countless stars to be seen.

Josh fans the flames while Gion gives it a poke.

Cozy Brenda.

Happy birthday Josh.

Saturday we hosted a little party at our place and then went out to see Five Alarm Funk downtown. Brenda's skating coach even came and gave Brenda a trophy! Apparently Brenda is very sportsmanlike, good job B!

The award ceremony with Coach Heather.

Heather, Brenda and Amy.

Five Alarm Funk rocked. We had high expectations and they surpassed them. If you see that they are coming to your town you have to check them out. Their energy level was incredible and how they kept up with the constant tempo changes of their drumming frontman is a mystery to me. The lead guitar player in particular stuck out, not only for his ridiculous outfit, but his wild solos.

The guitar player in all his short shorts/gold jacket glory.

The band, featuring Larry Bird.

Sarah and Brenda down by the water after the show.

Sunday was a recovery day of rest, packing, and landlord dealings. We went out for dinner with Ryan and Megan at the Canoe Brewpub down by the gorge. Ryan had just flown in from Switzerland the night before so it was good that we had a chance to catch-up with him and Megan before we left.

Ryan, Megan and I at Canoe.

Saying goodbye at Clover Point.

And that's it. Tomorrow morning we get up and leave the Island. We saw a ton of stuff while we here, met a lot of great people, and we will miss it all. At the same time we are eager to be heading home, back to friends and family we haven't seen enough of in the last couple of years.

We will continue to blog our journey home but then it is likely the blog will go on hiatus. Who knows, we could be back in B.C. some day. We certainly hope to visit, so maybe there will be sporadic posting in the coming years. So goodbye to some and to others, we hope to see you soon!