Sam and Lou's Excellent Adventures to Nanaimo

Our excellent adventure started at 6:30am when we left Maple Ridge and headed to the ferry. When we got to Horshoe Bay, the traffic trying to catch the 8:30am ferry was backed up for miles. I'm thinking those people had a 2 sailing wait. We were parking the car and walking on the ferry. With me having a swollen ankle, we pretty much just sat in our chairs for the entire ferry ride over. It was pretty packed and we didn't want to lose our spot. When we arrived at Departure Bay, we looked for a bus schedule to see if we could head out to the Malls to go shopping. They only display the week day schedule, so we would have had to get a Saturday schedule from the bus driver. That wasn't going to work out for us , so we took a taxi to our cousins' house. They had no idea that we were coming and we just showed up on their doorstep. The Wedding Crashers had arrived! Except we missed the wedding! Our parental unit (to be left un-named) told us the wedding was on Saturday at 4:30pm...when in actual fact it was on Friday. Oops! But our cousins were happy to see us and there were 19 people there and we all sat down for a nice brunch. The newly weds were heading back home at 3:15pm, so we are very lucky we didn't have a bus schedule or we would have missed them all together. Their daughter Isabella, it so cute and we enjoyed spending time with her out on the deck. It was extremely hot out and I'm sure we all sweated off a few pounds. Robb lent us his car and we went to visti our Grandma and Uncle Dave for a couple of hours. Then we returned to the Squire household...with . 2 pies and some ice cream for dessert. After lots of visiting and relaxing we all went to New York Pizza. The food was fabulous, but it was way too hot in there. By the time we were done dinner, it was time to head back for the last ferry back to Vancouver. Darn it...we didn't get any dessert, but I'm sure it will be enjoyed by the cousins..especially Todd! We took some touristy pictures on our drive back to the ferry. We had a bit of time to kill before we could get on the ferry, so we took more touristy pictures at the ferry terminal. It was an excellent day and we arrived back at my sister's house shortly after midnight. My next post (when I get around to it..hopefully) will have the 2 min. tour of Nanaimo via Judy and our ferry photos for you too see.