Home again

All packed and on our way. 

Ylda was nice enough to pick us up and drive us to La Cabaña for breakfast, after which we dragged our cases across the road to the bus depot. The bus was half an hour late, which is normal as the road from PV is slow and windy.

The bus pulled into Tomatlán for a ten minute break and Rosalie rushed to the baño as she didn’t want a repeat of last years debacle. While I visited the boys’ room, Rosalie got talking to the folks across the aisle. They were from Coombs on the Island. It seems that a lot people who visit Melaque are from Vancouver Island so I wasn’t too surprised.  

I don’t know why we booked our return on Sámana Santa (Easter), but we did. We thought Melaque was busy until we got to PV. Cars everywhere. Even sitting canted into the ditches at the side of the road. After arriving at Al and Cathy’s place we went out for dinner at Victor’s restaurant at the marina. 

The following morning took us to the Flamingo Hotel to book a reservation for September. It was too early to book though so we have to wait until August. When we got back to the condo it was time to change into our ‘winter’ clothes. It was awful. I haven’t worn socks or long pants for six months. Very uncomfortable.

An Uber was arranged to take us to the airport. The fare was double the regular rate as it was very busy and we had a wait to get into the airport.

PVR was packed, but mostly with arrivals so we got through check-in and security fairly quickly. 

We needed something to eat on the plane so lined up for half an hour to get a Subway ‘samich’. After getting a bottle of water we were set to go. The flight was great and I watched two really good movies.

When the plane landed I filled out the Arrive Can. app and it took only 30 minutes from when we landed to when we walked out of the gate after getting our checked luggage.

Then there was the trip to Coquitlam. We had never taken an Uber before so I was a little apprehensive.  The one we got in PV was arranged by Al. When I pressed the button on the app, it said the car would be there in three minutes. The problem was, I wasn’t sure where we had to meet it. We finally got it sorted and the car pulled up. The driver was great and he made it a really nice ride to Jeannine’s home.

Arriving in Nanaimo

The next morning Jeannine drove us to Harbour Air and we flew to Nanaimo where Peter and Sue picked us up. When we got home there was no power on at all. This was quite a problem as we couldn’t turn the furnace on to heat the place up, nor drive the car to get groceries.

All our breakers were on so I got Rosalie to call the maintenance guy. He showed up and used a sniffer to find that we did have power. However, nothing worked. After he left I got out my own hydro sniffer with the same result. After a lot of head-scratching, then I had an idea. I went to the main power plug and sure enough it was loose. I re-plugged it and all was well.

I decided Peter and I needed a shot of that tequila we brought back, to calm us back down. So the day ended well.