Pick up the Boat

We had scheduled our orientation to pick up the new boat at 4:00pm on friday the 11th .

We had arranged to get off work early and be out of town by 5:00pm.

We arrived on time for orientation and needless to say it did not go well.

We had to wait about 20 minutes before it started the guy appoligised about 4 times for being late. Then he started the orientation but kept answering his cell phone . Turn the bleeping thing off already.

During orientation we examined diferent parts of the boat. He showed us the water supply and i asked what the hose was that was not attached to anything? He picked up the water tank which is under one of the seats, it has a motor on top of it to pump the water to the sink. He then proceeded to tell me that that hose was if you wanted to pump water from the lake you just connected it to the pump which had nothing connected to it. So i then asked him how does water get from the tank to the sink as obviosly it was not attached to anything. He looked at me and went oh it goes through the hose on the other end of the tank. I thought this must be magic as their was no hose on the other end of the tank as he had just picked it up and it was not connected to anything. He then looks at me and says oh maybe i was wrong about the water from the lake I guess they have not hooked it up yet .

Ok I am not a boat salesman nor am I someone who works in a boat dealership I am not a plumber nor do I have any experience in any area of pontoon boats. so why do I have to tell this moron that something is not hooked up.

I rest my case customer service is completely in the toilet. We have such a lack of skilled labour and/or people who actually want to be a productive part of society . The avergage person these does not give a shit about anything. don't even mention governmnet employees or the famous SERVICE CANADA department of the federal government.

Anyway we finished orientation by 6:00pm. 1 hour late.


Now we are off to the lake (after picking up big bitch)

Our plan is tomorrow morning go to Wakaw pick up Boat Lift come back put dock in then put lift in then put boat in water and be done by Dinner time.

Well lets just say we finished about 9:30 pm and the boat was still on the trailer.

Sunday we launched boat took it for a few spins took Mom for a ride for Mothers day then had a barbeque .

We then took a bottle of wine and had a nice ride on the boat before we had to go home. more pics will follow

La Trip and Beyond part 1

Ok Monday the 16th was a sad day .

Hussy and I had to drop off Titsy at the airport for her journey home.

We missed her.

So we were off to San Diego .

Our plan was to go to San Diego Zoo and Sea world. Then head back to LA

We actually arrived in San Diego in good time did not get to lost although Microsoft streets and trips sent us on a wild goose chase to get to our hotel.

Note to map users don't use streets and trips ITS WRONG in so many ways.


We found our hotel no problem and it had a beautiful view of the marina.

So we headed off to Sea World.

we arrived at approx 2pm and it closed at 5:00pm

Admision was $57.00 usd Yes $ 57.00 us

Ok Hussy take a breath were here lets fork over the dough and get it over with.

We did but you need to see the video we made to get your money's worth.

So we had a great time I actually got to feed the Bat rays out of my hand .

I had to pay another 5.00 bucks to buy bait though. It was worth it.

We did get hungry so Hussy bought a fruit drink and i bought an ice cream bar
hers was 4.75 and mine was 3.50 ok take a breath we know that cold stuff costs more in california cause it's hot here. Ok I'm not a moron this place was completely outrageous for a bucket of popcorn they wanted 4.00 bucks.

Anyway we did have a good time. So then we went out for dinner at the Boathuse restaurant . It was very nice I had the Lobster, it was delicious.

Back to the hotel and lounged in the hot tub for awhile drank some beers and off to bed.


We were on the 8th floor (top) and the hotel was under construction . Which actually didn't bother us as they only worked from 8-5.

But the people accross the street building some kind of monstrosity decieded to start work at 6 am.

We had to get up anyway as we had a long day ahead of us.

So we took a little drive as we wanted to see what was all in the harbour.

We came accross the Aircraft Carrier USS Midway.

It is a museum and you can actually board it and tour the entire ship.
So we did it was awesome. It cost $15.00 bucks and was worth $57.00.





I always liked this Slogan.



After that we were off to the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park, it is 30 minutes north of San Digo (on our way back to LA) .



We did have a great time and we took the Journey into Africa tour it was great.

Admission was $33.00 bucks and included the Journey into Africa Tour , it was well worth it.

We were deceived though on another show that we went to it was called Experience Africa. I do have to say that it was the worst thing I have ever had to endure . We finally left as it was so pathetic. We are in a zoo with thousands of animals and they create this show with abunch of out of work actors dressing up in puppet costumes jumping around like neandrathals. It was by far the biggest dissapointment of the LA Trip 2007 . I hope no one else on this planet has to endure it. It sucked 25 minutes out of my life that I will never get back . Thank Dog we left when we did.

I will update more in a few days

Summer Bet 2007

Ok I will be the first to admit I lost the bet, it cost me 50 schmackaronies.

But I am ready for round two.

I was even psyched as i had still lost one pond from the last bet.

But then my good friend Wilma informs me that I am actually up 1 pound from last bet

thanks alot Wilma.

Anyway here is some motivation for both of us .

LA Trip 2007 the Details

Well I do have to say that it was quite a trip . Enjoyed by all

This is a pic looking out our window onto the courtyard of our hotel.






Hollywood feels like home now. I am even getting used to the freeway driving

Here are the links to Titsy's play by play

http://deathbedmoment.blogspot.com/search/label/Adventures

I will be posting more adventures as Titsy had to leave us before the adventure ended.

Spring Run off Cabin 2007

Vinnie, Big Bitch and I took a nice drive to the Lake on Sunday, we packed a barbeque lunch and headed out for the day.

Much to our surprise we were met with 1 to 3 inches of water in the entire basement.

It was not a good day . What happened was their was a frost heave in front of the cabin and it bent or kinked the drain line (which then probably froze as the water had no where to go. The front door would only open about 8 inches .




So we spent the next two days cleaning up the mess.

As well the ice reaked havoc on everyones docks this year this was my neighbors.


The only good thing about this is ours was completely gone.

And we bought a new one so we were dreading tearing out the old one.

So we went up again the following weekend to check things out an move the fans around. We also picked up the new dock and took it to the lake.

We were supposed to pick up the boat lift but someone from Wakaw Marine screwed up and gave it away to another customer.

Just adds to the continual dissapointments we have to endure because of the lack of intelligence, skill, commitment, etc, in our current work force. Dont; get me going on that.