BC Adventure : Part 4 : Island Adventure
June 25, 2017**** disclaimer still applies, again, things escalate even more this time****
So, if you have read the previous blog post you know that the weather wasn’t the greatest the rest of the time we were in Tofino. Our first full day in Tofino didn’t start off too bad. It was cloudy but it wasn’t raining yet, so we took advantage and went for a little walk/ hike by the light house before if began to rain. During our hike we kept ending up behind the same couple for some reason and it kind of felt like we were stalking them… we weren’t.
When our hike was over we headed into Uclulet to a really cool print shop. If you find yourself in the area, you should go check them out and get yourself a cool T-shirt from them. We then remembered that we hadn’t eaten breakfast yet and it was well into the afternoon so we headed back into Tofino to get lunch. ***** Throughout the trip we either did really good at feeding ourselves or failed miserably and barely had two meals. It really depended on whether or not we had breakfast or skipped it.***** Since we were in Tofino we wanted to get some sushi, so I asked Gina (my GPS) where the closest sushi place was. Finding parking was a whole other adventure. We finally found a spot, we did not however manage to find the sushi place. We tried. Walked around for a good 30 minutes, but we failed miserably. So we ended up having a burger, and then the never ending began. Regardless of the rain we still walked around for a bit to take pictures in some flowers.
The next day it was still raining and we were headed out to Victoria. Before we left we had planed to have fish and chips at a food truck in Tofino. According to the internet the truck was closed the day before but was supposed to be open that day. So we sat in a parking lot for a good 15 minutes waiting, the truck did not come. We looked it up online again and turns out the its closed TWO days a week, the two days that we were there for. Because of course it would be. So instead of having really good fish and chips, we sat in the car and ate some sandwiches that I had made for our drive. On the way, we stopped in Port Alberni to meet up with one of Kelsey’s internet friends Derrick. (I know what you’re thinking, “with the luck you two have, you’re going to meet someone from the internet???? You’re going to die!!!”. Well guess what, we didn’t! We were set to meet him at a Tim Hortons, but since Gina is a stupid bitch who can’t pronounce shit we drove right past it and took a large detour. Eventually we made it to the Tims and we did not get kidnapped or murdered. In fact I think I was the one who scared him. Its like you can’t talk about Lizzie Borden and the Bloody Benders without someone thinking you’re a psychopath. Anyways, we hung out for a bit and then got back on the road.
******** DISCAIMER HEAVILY APPLIES TO THE FIRST TWO HOURS WE WERE IN VICTORIA**********
By the time we were pulling into Victoria the sky had started to clear up and things were looking up… it didn’t last, not the weather but our luck. As we neared our hotel I gave them a call to find out where parking was, the lady told me to park in the loading zone infront of the hotel because she had to give us a map. So we pulled up infront of the Bedford Regency and went in, after we had gotten checked in the lady told us parking was 11$ a day and then pulled out a map to show us how to get to the parkade. She said ” Now usually you just go up this street then make a right on this street, but there’s a bomb scare today so you’re just going to have to make a right right away at the lights.” She talked about the the bomb scare like it was an everyday thing. When she looked up at us she saw the shock in our faces as we said ” A bomb scare?” She responded with “Ya, there was a suspicious package, but what can ya do?”*insert shrug and weird facial expression here*. Still processing the information we grabbed our bags from the car and ventured up to the room. As we walked down the hall there were the creepiest paintings ever and none of the doors had numbers on them. I started getting some serious American Horror Story: Hotel vibes. we almost walked right by our room because it was down a tiny 2 1/2 foot wide hallway, and there were three room doors at the end of it. If that didn’t freak us out enough when we walked into the room, the sink was beside the bed and not in the bathroom, the shower didn’t look like it could actually fit a grown person in it and when i looked out the window there was just a wall with the window of another room, when I looked to the side there was another window and when i looked the direction of where the street should have been it was just a cement wall. It did not help the anxiety and fear that was setting in. Everything was happening so fast that we didn’t really have time to process so we left our bags, got in the car and went to the parkade. As we were driving I googled the hotel, something I did not do when i booked because the photos of the hotel were really great and it sounded like a fancy place, the first review was about how there were mice in someones room and when they complained they said, “there’s nothing we can do about it.”. Full blown panic set in and I couldn’t reach my mom, which felt like the equivalent to losing your mother at the grocery store. We decided there was no way we were staying in this hotel so we drove back and grabbed our stuff, I have to say I’ve never actually run away from a hotel before, but I did run from the Regency. When I tried to check out the lady seemed unimpressed with me and told me she couldn’t just check me out and that I would have to cancel with Bookings.com since that what i used to book the hotel. I left the key cards and parking slips on the desk and walked out. When I got back in the car Kelsey said she remembered why the name of the hotel seemed so familiar, it was the first stop on the ghost tour she took in grade 11, because of course we booked a haunted hotel. At this point I would like to say that we never actually put two and two together and realized that the one time there is a bomb scare in Victoria, it was the day we drove into town and it was a block away from our hotel. So much other stuff happened that it did not occur to us that out terrible luck causes these things to occur around us, until one of my friends pointed out that fun fact a few weeks later when I was telling him this story. I mean so much weird stuff happens to us that we weren’t even that surprised when they pointed it out. At some point I got a hold of my Dad, who got a hold of my mom, who got help from my uncle that she was visiting and they cancelled the hotel and booked us at the Best Western.
