My visit to the mainland.....

The other day I made the trip to the mainland to spend the day with my girls. It was a spur of the moment thing but boy did we have fun.

While I was on the ferry I called my eldest daughter with whom I was going to stay, and asked her to make me an appointment with her hair dresser. My hair was in desperate need of a cut. I arrive at my daughter's just before one. Long enough time to drop off my bag grab a glass of juice and we were out the door to get my hair done.

The hairstylist was very pleasant and we chatted all about living on the Island. Anyhow, we finished off there and went next door to the restaurant my daughter works at. I know many of her friends and we had a little visit there. Quick telephone call to daughter number 2 to tell her we were on our way to pick her up from her friends, then swinging over to their house to pick up daughter 3 and then off to the mall. Oh we shopped. Apparently, Bebe is very trendy....and so it should be....have you ever heard of paying $104 for a pair of Lycra pants....yup...and $68 for a tank top? Well multiply that by 3 as I couldn't by for one and not the other. Oh and did I say number 2 daughter needed some boots. Then number 2 daughter decides she needs some new work clothes. Well I had to draw the line there. I broke down and bought myself something. My girls were teasing me telling me "She's back" The city girl is "back" Oh they wanted me to get all kinds of things for myself...and I kept reminding them where I lived. My rubber boats and sweat pants are a staple now. But I did break down as I said and bought myself a couple of things. Then I couldn't leave hubby out. So I bought him something as well. So, 4 hours later we are finally leaving the mall.

I told the girls I would make something for dinner and we would just hang at eldest daughters watch tv, chat and just enjoy. But we had to go to Safeway first to get much needed groceries, $100 later. We get home at it is 8:00 pm. I start cooking. I give each daughter a job. Eldest daughter who isn't the greatest cook but is really trying to learn says she will make the rice. I made a chicken curry dish, youngest daughter made a wonderful salad and middle daughter made an appie. Well dinner is almost ready and I tell eldest daughter it was time to make the rice. She gets it going, it starts to boil, I tell her it is boiling...she goes into the kitchen to tend to it. A few minutes later I look at the stove and smoke is coming out from the pan. I rush over to take it off. She had mistakenly turn the element to high...and well you know what happened. Then the fire alarm goes off. Middle daughter rushes to get a towel to sway below the alarm to shut it off. Can you imagine. Evacuating the apartment building for burnt rice. We got it shut off. She was devastated. No worries I tell her, live and learn. So it's after 9:00 now and we are hungry....to heck with the rice we eat the curry as is. It was yummy as was the salad. The best part ....was just hanging with my girls.

Next morning, I was up early, drove eldest daughter to work and headed to the ferry. I took lots of pictures I will share with you in my next post. The above picture of a ferry is very similar to the one I was travelling back to the Island on.

Cheers all!