Visiting Vancouver, BC

We were in Victoria from Oct 2-8 for 6 days of training at the Quantum Alliance. We did not get to see much of Victoria during the day, as we were inside most of the time being trained by the vivacious and skilled instructor, Gage Tarrant.


We did meet some wonderful people during that week, including Angela, who we shared a condo with in the middle of the week. Angela was not only kind enough to share her condo with us to help cut down on expenses, but also a wealth of knowledge around the QXCI program.

Kari-Gail was another wonderful and interesting woman from Canada whom we met and shared many meals with. Seems to be a pretty good chef from the time we made dinner together after one of our classes. KG is from eartern Cananda, somewhere, but has also lived in Sweden with her husband, who is from there. Hope that you make it out to Hawaii with your family Kari-Gail.

Swimming with the Honu

Long time no see folks. I have been travelling on the Mainland and things have been pretty busy and accelerated. Got back about a week ago and have spent some time in a small, private beach with some honu's (turtles) that live in this bay. We harvest the sea grass off the rocks and they eat right out of our hands. Very calming and relaxing to sit with the turtles and learn from them about "going with the flow" in the ocean. The waves come in and move all of us around and they get shoved away but come back with each ebbing wave.

Nothing cuter than when one of them comes up for air and blows a lungful of seaweed breath into your face. They are very alert and not afraid of humans as most other turtles are when you meet them in the ocean. These turtles have the humans trained pretty well and when we get in the water, they come up expecting their meal. I have even gotten pats on the back from their little arms when they are done eating.

Then, there are the occasional private moments like, "Why are the turtles leaving? Because I just peed in the water."