blurb from the ferry

Questions: Why is the ferry from Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay more expensive than the ferry from Horseshoe bay to Nanaimo? To state the obvious, it’s the same route (no?), but from the island to the mainland costs almost $25 more. BC Ferries… Next question: Why isn’t there a little beeper on your keychain/car-unlocker-thingy that beeps or buzzes or flashes when your car alarm goes off? How are you supposed to know that your car is either being broken into, or bothering sleepy, stay-in-their-cars ferry passengers? I’m sure there is such a thing, but I think that all car alarms, when they go off, should send a signal to the person that the car belongs to. (Do car alarms even work? Steve made a good point that they go off so often that most people ignore the noise... but don't ignore the jackass that comes to turn it off after 20 minutes of obnoxiously annoying squeals.) And that’s it, I think I’m done with questions for now.

We spent the past two days over on Thetis, mostly meeting with people (asking questions, answering questions), and ferrying wedding goods – beer, coke, water, beer, coke, booze. It is gorgeous over there, and I can’t even believe that we’re a week away – a WEEK! We are crossing things of the list though: we met with the DJ dude and gave him all of our playlists, we met with Devon the photographer (check out her blog and site – great photos), we met with Bob the marriage commissioner (went over the ceremony) and finally, we met with Arlene, our contact at Overbury Farm Resort, the place where we’re getting married. Even though the last two days have been busy, the levels of commotion and wedding madness to-do lists and errands and last minute things haven’t been so, well… crazy. Perhaps it’s not last minute enough yet for these last minute things, but I’m hoping that we’ve got most of it taken care of. Either that or we’re forgetting about a handful of schtuff… hmmm… Anyways, it was great over there and we are feeling ready. The weather was a bit cool in the mornings and evenings – and we checked out the weather for July 4th (the first time I did so), and Steve found a site that predicted sun for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd, rain for the 4th, and sun for the 5th, 6th and 7th. Clearly this information must be wrong – fingers are crossed for sun on the 4th!