Salt Spring Island May 4-11, 2014

Jan, Delores and I drove to Salt Spring Island, BC for a week to help Barry and Emma (Jan's brother and sister-in-law) with their move.  We left on Sunday night after dropping Randi off at the airport for her 2 month trip to Europe.  We drove as far as Valemount and spent the night.  We then got up early and drove to the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal arriving at 1 pm - the 1 pm ferry was full so we had to wait until the 3 pm ferry.  We arrived in Sydney at 4:40 and hopped on the Fulford Harbour Ferry at 5 pm.  We arrived on Salt Spring at 5:40 pm.  Ferries are exhausting.  We had dinner and a visit and then dropped into bed.  We got up the next day and started to work - the sold property had a lot of "treasures" to be sorted through.  We spent the first day working on the main floor of the shop.  We spent the second day working on the second floor of the shop.  We took a day off to explore the island a bit and spent the next day working on the crawl space under the cabin.  3 full days of work but we got the majority of the place cleaned up.  There were 3 destinations for the "treasures":  the dumpster, the fire pile or the new house.  At the end of 3 days, the small dumpster was 1/3 full, the fire pile took on a fair amount, but the majority of the "treasures" ended up back at the new house including about 100 axes.  We enjoyed Saturday at the famous market and had lunch in downtown Ganges.  We got up and left on Sunday morning - we drove the entire way ending up back in Edmonton at about 2 am (with a quick stop at the lake to drop off some "treasures" from Salt Spring).