well the weekend turned out to be a bit of a runaway ... any surprise there?! friday was victoria, saturday was nanaimo and sunday was a recooperation afternoon with the superbowl in the evening (thank god paul's clothes didn't come off). sunday's drive from nanaimo to qualicum was a bit messy; it was snowing and the roads were full of heavy slush. i guess the only road to victoria shut down a half hour after the gang headed back .... lucky them. monday was what gramma calls "an eraser day" .... made you forget altogether about the previous day. it was a bright sunny day and the snow was gone. we went to the brown property in qualicum; a 17 acre area of land that was saved from development and now holds trails throughout. we walked around for at least an hour beneath massive trees that blocked out all the sunlight. the fallen trees were decomposing and covered in lush moss; it was so beautiful there. i took a few pictures and hope that they turn out. my time with gramma is ever so precious to me ... tonight i went through the end of my laos journel, and into my northern thailand journel. i managed to get into dubai (just) before gramma said she needed to head to bed. i could see that though; i knew she was tired. she made a cake today for her sister's birthday bash this weekend. i went downtown and mailed klk's valentine's day care package and bought gold candles for the cake. i was going to make peanut brittle tonight but we forgot to get corn syrup at the supermarket yesterday. tomorrow i guess. i think i should be writing in my journel on a daily basis. or scratch the physical journel and just keep this. but then i guess all my personal thoughts wouldn't get out ... i dunno. about this book thing i dunno either. got to do some talking to gramma's sister when she comes back from tofino ..... she wrote a book about her father and i've been leafing through it. i think when i move in march i'll look into some more writing workshops. it's been a few years since i've done that and i want to.