Thursday, June 19, 2008

Tofino!

So, after lunch we started packing and we went downtown to go get the car. I have to mention that it was a friday the 13th..... When we got there, everything went terribly wrong!!! We couldn't rent a car because Gen didnt have enough money on her card, and since I was under 25, we had to pay like 35$ more per day plus 10$ per day so Gen could drive if I rented the car. We sent an hour there trying to figure out what to do, to call her bank and talk to the employee and try to work something out. I was finaly able to rent the car after 1h15. So... we got in our Yaris and we went back to UVIC to pick up our stuff. But before that, we made a stop at Genevieve's friends appartment to get his FM transmiter or something (so we could listen to our mp3's on the cars radio). We talked a bit with his neighbor who drew a map to fun in Tofino. He gave us a few contacts of people who could give a us a place to stay and someone else to show us around.
We finaly left around 5h-5h30 and we spent hours enjoying the view. When we got there in the night we got to a hippie camping where we were supposed to find one of the neighbor's contacts. Of course, he wasn't there and people there told us that the other person we were supposed to go see had left Tofino. We gave a lift to someone downtown and I went to the bathroom in a pub and I was a bit scared because one guy there was disguised as Jason "Friday 13th". I came out alive so great! After, we went back to the hippie camping and we slept in the car. Gen slept like a baby. I was feeling sick all night long... Anyways, I'm gonna leave out a lot of details so I can talk about it to you guys when I get back.
The only thing I'm gonna say about saturday is that I ...............................................................Surfed!!!!
Oh yes! Me on a surf board! And I actually got up on the board pretty often, maybe not for long but it's still really good. The weekend before a lot of people from the program went and pretty much only the guys were able to get on the board.
We slept in the car again on saturday night, but this time a at farm... Oh yes! We got invited at this sushi shop by the one who takes care of the farm ( friend of a friend of Gen). We got there, and they were out of rice, so out of sushi! WTH... Anyway, they gave us lots of stuff on the house. Anyone who knows me a bit knows that I didn't eat a lot that night... But they had a few sushi left that they gave us. I ate a tuna sushi... yes.. me eating sushi. It was.... well I eventually swallowed but ugh...
So then we slet in the car at the farm, and I'm wondering if someone around Tofino knows what a toilet is.... There was this outhouse, I can live with that, not very long but still. Problem was, there was no door!!! Grrrr... So once again I spent a horrible night in the car and on sunday, we brought back the car late! So we have to pay for another hole day!!!! Arhhhh!!! And it's on my credit card!!!!! Damn it!
So anyway... we got back alive.
So I left out a lot of stuff cuz I should actually be packing right now.
Next : Week 5 plus pics!!

Ciao

1 comment:

caroline said...

malade
j'avais aussi eu trop de badluck a tofino
c'est pas une place pour nous!