5C's Que Pasa

Almost too exhausted to post.  I don’t recommend traveling with the zoo.  Don’t know that the bird will travel again with us. Anyone want her, even part time?  Drives me and Carmeh nuts.  Poor Caeli, she fell off the golf cart the other day and hurt her leg and is not bouncing back, so today I started her on Prednisone.  Umm Dr. Susan did I give her too much…5mg…..will decrease to 2.5 mg tonite and tomorrow and then start to cut back??!!!

So we started the engine at 11:15AM, only to have major airbag problems.  Dumped the air and reinflated then had an airhose problem.  Finally driving and Colin says…grande problema with the engine!!!  We stopped just 2 miles from home where I drove while Colin ran alongside trying to figure it out.  In the end ‘no se’.  We decided to just go for it and if we break down we will deal with it.  So the strange noise in the engine is now traveling with us.  Finally we are truly on the road at noon, an hour late! Here is the bird still in her cage, getting use to being on the road.

So we drove and drove and got to Valemont at 6:15PM where we filled with diesel and finally got settled into our site by 7:00PM.  By then we had endured a very loud thunder/lightening storm, and tons of rain.  Quite the day, we started out at 30C with the A/C on and ended with the heater running.  Along the way Colin saw a bear and we both saw the second one at the same time.  Now that was very exciting.  Not so great was my getting totally soaked checking in at Irvins’s Rv Park.  There goes the hair do for Dad’s big day!  Sigh!!!!!!  Oh here is the normal travel scenario..Caeli on Colin’s lap, the bird free and Carmeh worried about Cheikka who she thinks is her baby.

It is now 9:00PM and the kids have been fed but not us….well who needs food when you have a full glass of vino blanco?  Colin now wants the puter cuz he has to “work”.  He has been going from 7AM till 1Am for almost 12 days now and will continue to do the same in Edmonton. Bedtime for me!

What a wonderful world…I can see again!

Surgery was April 21 and here is a photo a few days later.

And here is the before and after of the droopy eyelid.

and now the final transformation…

Happy me….

We are packing up tomorrow and heading NE on Sunday so see ya on the road.

If you won the Canadian 50 million lottery today?

Contessa would:

-hire a personal registered massage person who would travel with us to Mexico and around the world

-buy my own vineyard, maybe two, one here and one in France

-get another baby weiner and a dog nanny

-travel more and help people throughout the world

-give money to groups teaching the less fortunate to become self sufficient

-put a new home on our beach site and keep this one for guests

Colin would:

-buy a Newell (1.5 million)

-buy more properties on the lake

-buy a villa on the beach in Mazatlan

-maybe buy one on the Mediterranean

-take 3 world trips per year

-only take on the high end prestigious photo shoots

-want more time with my wife!!

Carmeh & Caeli would:

-like someone to drive them around in the golf cart all day

-have someone at their beck & call to play ball at will

-put crabs on our beach here so they can dig them up

Cheikka would:

-prefer a larger house to fly around in

-like to have a huge outdoor aviary

So what would you do?

…so how busy am I?  Well between taking the computer classes, learning the camera and iphoto, I have just a few other things to attend to:

~launching this blog and dealing with a whole next set of problems.  By the way guys, the idea is for you to comment here and not comment via email!!!!!!!

~planning my Dad’s 80th birthday in Edmonton on June 16th!  Don’t tell him as it is a surprise!

~trying to figure out why the font size keeps changing…..sigh!!!!!!

~finding time to load the RV for the trip, never mind deciding what day we leave here. Oh yeah, we are travelling with the entire zoo!

~biding on something on Ebay for the first time in my life and figuring out what I am doing….if you must know, it was toys for the parrot. She is fussy and prefers McDonalds 2008 Madagascar Return to Africa talking toys.

~watering all my plants plus my neighbors 20 million pots…not so bad really cuz all it does in the sunny Okanagan is rain!!!!!!!!

~worry about my plants in Mexico possibly fading fast…..oh well…it was a gamble..but still..my poor plumeria plants….it took years to find them…and that one perfect hibiscus!!

~wondering whether to push myself to make the perfect healthy dinner or just order the pizza…guess what we did???

~waking yesterday morning….there goes the font again….wondering why my front door was wide open…no wonder we were freezing in the house. Such a safe place we live in!

~not sure why the door was open (hope it was the wind) but I do do know for sure that my husband never came home  that night…..yup, a first.  Poor Colin, he was on the computer at 8AM and worked till 2PM when the sun started to appear, so he drove off to West Kelowna where he worked till 1 Am when he just crashed on the sofa in the show home before getting up a few hours later at 4Am for the sunrise shots.   He got home about 10Am just as I was leaving for a computer class, followed by 80th birthday shopping.

Well I no longer have to worry about my intake of vino blanco versus my productivity!

Colin has waited over a month to get the perfect shots for a Vancouver client re a new project in West Kelowna. I think it was worth an all nighter! The project is called Waterfront.  This is one of the sunset shots.

...and off we go

Thank you for stopping in and checking out my blog.  Today is the official launch.  It has been a much bigger project than I anticipated but it has gotten those little grey cells churning.  If you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will be starting with me right from the beginning.  Please take a look at the profile. I will add to this blog when I have something to say which may not be everyday.  So be patient and check back as you wish.  I hope to, over the next few months to recreate my past travelogues with photos here.  Now that will be a project. Enjoy!

Adios amigos!