Horseshoe Bay and my attempt to get to Lighthouse park...

ookay I figured it would be the best if I write down what I did right afterwards at the same day =) So here we go (btw you can click on the pics to see them full size;) ):
Today was my first of 4 days off cause it's pretty slow at work cause of the time of year. We don't have any big banquets so I'm only working in the coffee shop and considering there are 4 of us working there I enden up haven just 3 days work this week. Good for going out and doing something especially with the weather being really nice the last days (on the other hand not so good money wise). I browsed a little through the really nice city guide I got for my birthday to see if I can find something I can go and I decided to make a trip to Horseshoe Bay where all the BC Ferries departure and to Lighthouse park going for a hike (or well you should propably call it "walk").

Being me I couldn't get out of bed in the morning so I had my yummy cheese omlet, nutella and peanut butter toast (no, not everything together :P) "breakfast" at lunchtime and got ready so I left at about 2 o'clock. I had looked up which bus to take yesterday so that was easy. I'm usually pretty slack when it comes to taking buses along the lines of "if you end up somewhere you didn't want to go there's always a bus back :P". It took forever to get there, though. About over two hours and a nice conversation with a polish lady and a girl from Frankfurt (she totally reminded me of Caro cause she's going to school here, too) on the bus - later I finally arrived at Horseshoe Bay. I still regret that I didn't ask the girl for her name :P But hey who would have thought that I'd start a convo with random strangers on a bus. Even though the ride was so long that itself was worth the rip! The bus is going along Marine Drive which is basically going directly along the shore. Sooooo beautiful! And the houses around there... anyway I strolled a little along at Horseshoe Bay and took some pics.

I thought there might be a trail where I could walk along the shore back to Lighthouse park but there wasn't (or I didn't find it) so I had to take the bus. Unfortunately I took the express one which I didn't know goes on the highway without making any stops (therefore it takes less than helf the time). I really wanted to walk a little on the shore so I just took the other bus back and tried to figure out which stop to get off which wasn't easy because it was an old bus that didn't have a display saying what's the next stop. So I got off to early and kinda wondered around the blocks to find a trail which I evetually did.
The houses down there at the beach reminded me a lot of Santa Monica just with a lot more green around.

It's must be awesome to live there but I guess if you live there you don't value it that much any more... so I walked along the trail trying not to remember Seala's creepy crazy guy in the park story and took some really nice pics and just enjoyed the great view and everything around me. I was a little amused by all the benches there. It's like with bus stops there's one every stone through away.

Oh and they actually have tiny washroom cabines there.
I didn't made it to Lighthouse park cause it was already starting to get dusky and I was pretty much the only one walking around there exept for some people walking there dogs so I think I just walked for about half an hour but I've been really exhausted after I went up the hill to the next bus stop ( I really need to do some sports or something I have hardly any endurance :P). The way back took even longer cause someone tried to jump from the Lionsgate Bridge so it was shot down and combined with rush hour there was a lot of traffic but I got home on time to make some dinner and hit the coach for my Grey's and Private Practice TV night :P

oh and Michelle called me to ask if I can do her Sunday shift so I got one more day of work for this week *yay* Tomorrow's most likely just gonna be laudry, cleaning and hanging out at home day but on Saturday I'm gonna go to a horse race with Seala. Monday is Thanksgiving but I might be working that day...idk yet. Would have loved to be a fly on the wall in a real canadian family for that, though :P




Gotta go "hit the pillow" now.
Love you guys and thank you for reading!
"Bussi" xoxo
Anna

ps: sorry if there are a lot of spelling mistakes and stuff but I'm too lazy to read through it again...