On Father’s Day, I started out taking a job on the Galloping Goose Trail which is a 50km trail starting from the city of Victoria and running across Vancouver Island. It was quite inspiring to hit the trail in the nice cool forest as the trees sheltered the effects of the sun. I passed by forest, trails and eventually ended up at a bridge overlooking a river below. It was quite nice. Dad and I headed back on the trail later on in the day with some bicycles (mine having some amazing streamers off the ends of the handlebars) and I enjoyed that time with Dad on the trail seeing that it was Father’s Day. It was also inspiring to come back and work alongside Uncle Brent and Troy who were attempting to fix a clothesline.
I also gave Dad a copy of Drunken Covers Volume 1 which I envision to be a series of live albums whenever we actually hit record on the machine. We are also trying to figure out an easy way to distribute this to anyone who wants it. It’s a recording of Troy and I playing some covers last year in London. We popped it in the car stereo when we headed to Victoria and I was proud when Mom thought it was the radio playing!
We headed into Victoria for some fish and chips which were amazing. One thing that struck me about Victoria was that everywhere you went, the landscaping was amazing! You could have a rundown apartment complex in the welfare area of the city but it had shrubs and flowers and nice lawns! I found it quite intriguing. Uncle Brent also took us up Bear Mountain which is this new housing development up on this mountain outside of Victoria. It was quite amazing to be so high above the city.
At night, Troy, Uncle Brent and I played crokinole which I had never played before. Clearly Uncle Brent had played before as he kicked our ass every time.
Troy and I then discovered that Uncle Brent had the Fight Network on his television and we decided to see what was on. Hilariously enough, at 10PM, we stumbled upon a show which had Russian girls wrestling in honey. Beautiful! We had some good laughs at the show as the commentator was hilarious. The girls had some great names like “Black Widow Spider” and “Angel Dust”. So the commentator would say “Black Widow Spider is slowing down due to the viscosity of the honey.” or “Angel Dust needs to spend more time wrestling than adjusting her top.”
At 10:30PM, “The Real Catfight” started up and it was a bunch of Asian women wrestling each other. Usually they were dressed up in some crazy outfits and it was a hit and miss show. Sometimes they would not wrestle at all, sometimes they went all out and we cringed at their antics and sometimes it was a little crazy as you would have the girls getting bonus points for various acts. Considering this is a family friendly zone, you can talk to me in person if you want to know what was going on in the show. We found the shows highly entertaining and watched them every night and had a good laugh at it. Dad even came down one night to see what the fuss was all about and he had a good time.