Gerald can cook!

Thursday Nov. 25 (posted on Nov. 27 - no Internet access)

We woke up about 7:00am. Gerald and Karina had already left - Karina to work and Gerald to do some errands and pick up a rental car for our trip to Tofino tomorrow. I took the opportunity to work on this blog and try to edit some raw video, make some movies and upload them to the blog. John spent his time looking out over the deck to Nanaimo Bay, watching the float planes taking off and landing and the ferries coming and going. After two hours I still could not upload a single video. When Gerald came back he said that perhaps it was Internet traffic and to try to upload them late in the evening when most of North America is asleep.

John agreed with Gerald and we watched Gerald prepare a delicious lunch of barbequed marinated chicken and brown rice. In the afternoon, Gerald and John took the camera and went on a tour of Nanaimo. They went to a park that looked like a rinforest. It has been very rainy on Vancouver Island lately and the little stream was gushing huge amounts of watwer. There were two amazing waterfalls and they followed the stream right down to the ocean. John said that hard poart was climbing up the rail on the way back and he was ut fo breath at the end. Gerald laughed.

The tour continued as they went down to the waterfront for a cappucino. They also talked to a guy who owns his own fishing boat but doesn't fish, just sells fish. By this time it was getting dark and after agoing back to the car, they camew back to the house.

Gerald then made dinner. It was incredible! It was a curried seafood stir fry. There was salmon, clams, oysters, and prawns over a bed of brown rice. It seemed very healthy at the same time as being delicious.
Gerald and John were enjoying a glass of wine and watching Criminal Minds when Karina got home. She is a swimmer and the national swimming championships are coming to Nanaimo and both she and Gerald will be either swimming or working at the event. Both of them work really hard. Even though Gerald had taken a vacation day, as head of HR, he had to send multiple emails to organize an arbitration hearing for Dec. 30.

John felt that his day of activity was making him feel better physically already.

TBD