This category it to keep track of our visits to the Victoria Beach Cottage. I have created a portal site where you can see any pictures that we might take with our digital camera at ..

http://HBSMC.com/victoriabeach/ | All Pictures Taken At Victoria Beach

We took last weekend off and didn’t go to the cottage. Since it was my birthday on Tuesday July 11th .. we decided that instead of the annual Steak BBQ at my mom’s place .. Yvonne and my Mom would throw me a BBQ out at Victoria Beach! We invited both my folks, and my brothers. We only wanted them out for a day though – it’s too messy to clean up after them and there really isn’t enough room if they come out to stay – especially if Yvonne’s sister and family comes out too.

So – they were there on Saturday the 15th. They arrived around noon and left around 10pm ..

I took many pictures – but, I seemed to have forgotten to take a picture of the entire family and Sammi (their dog) who was also out. The pictures are up in the gallery now, starting from page 3 to about page 5. There was a little hullaballo because everybody wanted to listen to the Bomber Football Game (against Montreal). Now, my father is a little deaf and even though he wears one hearing aid .. we still had to turn up the volume. I hope the neighbors didn’t mind too much – as we all know they heard our radio! We couldn’t get a good enough screen image to watch it on the TV

Movies Watched by HART this trip:

* None

Why?

I GOT A NEW BIKE! WooHoo!

But it was awful. I didn’t watch the store take apart the front tire, so I’m not sure that I put all the parts back in the proper order. And, while I was walking it down to the cottage – the nut fell off and I lost it. I managed to find a similar one and used that instead. Later on in the day – I found the original nut. I will replace it next week.

Anyway – Yvonne is jogging about an hour every morning out there around 7:30am so, I was anxious to just ride along with her on my new bike. She is very “one-ness” about the jogging – “me,me,me,me”. We were going down 8th avenue out there and I saw the view at the end of the road and mentioned that I wanted a picture. She wouldn’t have anything like that! No way! “I’m not stopping for you!” … So, I immediately sped up pedalling down the hill to take a picture and be able to get ahead of her so after my picture, I can catch up to her if she gets past me (I don’t know her route) … when all of a sudden..

The main spring fell off the front time. The bike was inoperable. The bike pictures are on Page 4 of the gallery.

I walked it up to the main gate and borrowed some pliers to put it back on, pedalled back to the cottage and tightened it accordingly and headed out back around Victoria Beach to find my Booboo. I failed miserably and just came back an hour later. She arrived shortly after that. It seems .. we might have missed each other by 5 minutes on one stretch of Sunset Boulevard beach road – thanks to some nice joggers who I thought were giving me good information but, instead were just playing dumb and put me on a goose chase. DON’T ASK!

The bike works fine now! It’s great – all I have to do is raise the seat now… if I can figure out how to do that!