Saturday March 15

So yesterday afternoon I got a call from Marianne saying that they really needed me to come and race in the Crazy 8's race today. In Nanaimo. They meet at 7:45am near Departure Bay. So I said um, um, I will call you back after I talk to Jeff once he gets home from work. Then granny can over to get help with her new iPad mini before they go to Hawaii in a week and we forgot about Toin's piano lesson and Marianne phoned back and I had to go interrupt Jeff and granny and talk to him about it. So anyways I said yes. Pretty basic really. Get there do one race and then leave to come home. 

So I woke up at 5:45 and left to drive to Nanaimo for 7:45 and we raced at 9. I was actually in the juniors boat because that's where they were seriously short of females for the mixed crew. The juniors boat ended up being only half juniors in the end but we won our race. Wasn't that nice. Only moderate rain while we were on the water. And the wind and waves were only at the newcastle island bay end of things, but that just made it kind of exciting. It was a bit stressful for Rhianna to steer in the windy waves but it kept us all focused. 

We got medals and chocolate bars. The. I got changed and drive back home. 

This is my yogurt in the car before I drove back home. It wasn't bad; I listened to the librivox recordings of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes until I ran out of downloaded ones and then I listened my quirks and quarks podcast. So I wasn't bored. 

In the afternoon we all went to the Archie Browning. Arena and did public skating. Julias and Tobin got to try out their new skates for the first time and I rented hockey skates for the first time. Most of the Glovers met us there too. It was pretty fun and my feet got much less sore than in the figure skates we had before that were actually too narrow for my feet.