So I just got back from a vacation out in Victoria BC to calibrate my Nana's 90th* birthday. Most of the family had left except for my sibling and his feachancay Miranda who unforchantly could not make it. This is my rant on what we did:
* She's doing very well at 90!
Thursday - Most of the day was spent on the plane, the flight alone took 6 hours not to machine, the boarding and getting to the airport. I played Sonic Colors(which was named by Americans) for the Nintendo DS most of the time. It's alwsome and even though the DS is not as powerful as the Wii the game is just as good as the Wii version. This is accomplished by making the DS version 2D(closer too 2D sonic on the genesis then modern sonic) this allows the game to take advantage of the consoles abillites(or lake there of). I arrived in Nann's retirement home at 9:00 or 10:00PM PST which too meat felt much latter EST.
Friday - I was very tried on Friday from the long flight and timezone shift. Nann's retirement home is setup like a hotel, with lobbies, a bar, a hot tub room(apparently) and a large dinnering room where the severs dress up and the food is wonderful. I ate breakfast there and we meat one of Nanna's friends Brain, who is a nice guy, who I would best describe as a thinker. I don't think he gets too see family often and so he would come up to Nanna's apartment and just sit back and get the feeling of being with his family again through having us in the room. We walked around the apartment on Friday. They have a lovely Japaneses garden, I will put some pics on Facebook latter on. There is also a "Tin man" like from the Wizard Of Oz, he looks like this:
Friday afternoon I setup Skype on Nanna's computer and we had a conference with family at home.
Saturday - Nann's birthday was this day, we opened presents, my parents got her a large owl wind chime. My sister got hear a book of "Poirot" mysterious and a nice letter explaining his absence. He had bought the book at Georgetown's own "White Rabbit Books". My present was a letter and updating her digital picture frame which had been packed away when she had moved apartments. I will also be printing and mailing my best picture of her and her friends at the party.
In the evening some of Nanna's friends came over and we went into a private dinning room for supper. For supper we had a raither unique sallide(in a bowl of parmasane cheese), followed by a chicken dinner and birthday cake. Nanna blew out the candles three times like this:
- Normal blowing out of the candles with Happy Birthday song.
- Re-blowing out of the candles because one of the guests was out of the room for the first blowing.(Happy Birthday was song again)
- Finally blowing for I forgot to take a picture of Nanna the first too times.
The picture looked like this:
Sunday - I watched a couple of episodes of Stargate and Star Trek and helped fix up Nanna's computer, even though at her age, she hardly uses it. I also transferred my photos to the photo frame. On Sunday or Monday we went down to see some photos in Brian's album from a crause he was on. Also every Sunday they have a brunch buffa, and they have pancakes with cream, sussage, cake, bacon, egg "McMuffins" and pork. So I stuffed myself on that day.
Monday - I fished setting up Nanna's computer, watched more TV and packed for Tuesday. I also wrote out instructions for Nanna on how to use her computer, since she has not used it in over a year and has forgotten how.
Tuesday - We had our final meal in the dinning room and then left for home. We took two flights, one directly after the other. Both flights where delayed a bit, the first because of a lightning warning and the second because of the fog in Toronto.
Photos will be up when I get the chance too sort them out.
