Friday, April 6, 2012 (Fort Camping, Brae Island Regional Park, Fort Langley, BC)

The cell phone rang just after 11:00 this morning...it was Chris...he’s in Fort Langley.  He had texted that he was on his way out but I missed it...hmmm...must have been in the shower.  Yes, I was a little slow this morning.

The campground has a weird rule...visitors to campers staying here must pay $5 for a parking pass to park inside.  So, instead of doing that, Chris just parked in the day-use parking lot at the entrance and walked to our site...Steve went to meet him.  Less than half an hour later, the cell phone rang again...it was Nadine and Mike; they too were just entering Fort Langley.  Steve told them where to park and that he would be down to meet them.

While Steve walked down to meet Mike and Nadine, I put a pot of coffee on while chatting with Chris.  He’s doing well in his new job...well, not so new now...he’s been with Capcom over 8 months now.  Like us, he too is finding that time is just flying by.  He’s very fortunate...he has a good job doing what he loves.

Nadine and Mike arrived carrying a package they had picked up from Rob...a shoe-box full of mail that had accumulated over the past 3 months.  Thanks guys...that will keep us busy for awhile!  We all sat chatting over coffee...

...and then about an hour later decided to walk into town to The Fort Pub for lunch...

After lunch we wandered along the main street of Fort Langley...a very busy place on a weekend. They are still filming a movie in town (The Christmas Consultant with David Hasselhoff and Caroline Rhea)...the equipment is now set up in a restored heritage house...

Fort Langley Community Hall...

Some street shots...

The Fraser River...(Mike, Nadine, Chris and Dianne)...

...and Nadine, Chris, Dianne and Steve...

The Bedford House Restaurant and Lahaina Bar...

"No Group Photo Without Permission"...well fine!  Too funny...

The Fort Pub & Grill...where we had lunch (and where Steve and I have been numerous times to watch Canucks hockey games)...

We walked back across the bridge...yikes, those are ugly looking clouds....

I couldn’t believe it was going on 3:30 when we were back at the parking lot of Brae Island Regional Park where Mike and Nadine had parked their car.  They were continuing onto Abbotsford now (they are going to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra tomorrow night).  It was sure great seeing them and after hugs and handshakes, they were off.  We will see them again at the end of the month when we head over to Victoria.

Chris came back to the trailer with us for bit.  I downloaded an update to his GPS (for some reason his device did not come with a USB cord).  While we were sitting visiting, we received a Skype call from Steve’s uncle in Edmonton.  We had a great chat with Gord and Esther...too bad they had just missed Nadine and Mike!   We had such a great time in Los Cabos with them last November...they wanted to know where we should vacation together this November...hmmm...don’t know if we can make it this November but maybe the following one!

Chris decided it was time for the hour drive back into downtown Vancouver.  We walked him back to his car and after big hugs, he was off.  It was so good seeing him...and we hope to see more of him over the next few weeks while we are here.

Thursday, April 5, 2012 (Fort Camping, Brae Island Regional Park, Fort Langley, BC)

Steve spent a good part of the morning on the laptop researching RV storage facilities.  After a phone call in response to an ad, he found out a little more about the location and we headed out to take a look.  It was a spot off the Langley Bypass...nope, not going to work.

We weren’t far from ITB where we had the truck box made so we thought we would stop there.  Steve wanted to talk to them about an issue with the boat loader mount as well as about some a missing rivet.  As soon as we pulled in, we were recognized by some of the workers and the service manager.  They talked about a solution to the boat loader mount problem...and a date was set up to bring the truck in to have the work done (next Thursday).

Once done there, we decided to go back to Econo Storage and take another look at the spot we had been looking at to store the fifth-wheel.  Not only does the spot have to be big enough for the trailer, but we also have to have lots of room to maneuver the truck to get it in between two other RVs.  The spots are 10 feet wide and we're 8 feet wide, so there isn’t an awful lot of “wiggle room”.  We decided to go ahead and book the spot...even though we have to take it for 2 months.  At least, we have a spot to store the trailer when we leave for Victoria at the end of the month.

After that was taken care of, we had a couple of more errands to take of...first of all, to Home Depot.  Steve needed to find some screws to replace ones that had worked their way out of a panel in the trailer plus we wanted to see if we could find a piece of rubber to protect the bikes while on the rack.  We ended up getting a strip of vinyl that is used in flooring.  Hopefully that will work.  Next we ended up at London Drugs where Steve had purchased his camera last year.  He wanted to replace the polarized lens filter he lost on the hike at McDowell Mountain Regional Park...turns out it was a $111.00 hike!

Steve dropped me off at the office on the way into the park.  We have decided to just stay here for the whole month rather than go out to Squamish.  We would still like to go check that area out sometime but will wait until the weather is better...maybe we`ll go out that way in June....

By the time we got home, we were starving so I made us a late lunch...then it was time for a little exercise.  Although there were some pretty ominous looking clouds out there, we decided to go for a bike ride.  This time we rode out of the park, across the bridge and along the trail on the other side of the river.  I took a couple of pictures...

And that was pretty much our day.  Steve`s sister and her husband, Nadine and Mike, are coming over to Abbotsford tomorrow for the weekend so they are going to stop by for a visit.  We are really looking forward to seeing them...along with our son Chris too...since it is a holiday tomorrow; he is going to drive out from Vancouver for a visit as well.