Day 13: Saturday Snow

Here is a picture of Naomi looking out of the HBOT tank. She is stretching her right hand flat against the port hole as part of her tank exercises. We are watching Whale Rider! What a good movie!

Naomi might be growing as her right leg seems to have stiffened up a bit these last two days (or its just because its SO DARN COLD!!) It's 2 degrees C (or about 38 F for you all in the US)here today. We had a light bit of snowfall around 4:00 PM.

We have an adopted dog during our stay...Ruby. Her owner asked us to walk her everyday (if we had time), and we have watched her at nights as well. She is a very good dog, but very timid. We enjoy having a canine friend to walk with since we miss Suki so much.

Here is a picture of Naomi and Ruby during our daily constitutional:



Thursday Alex and Benj took the Victoria Clipper home. What a great experience! If you don't need a car in Victoria, I highly recommend the Clipper as it is not that expensive and VERY fast. It took 2-1/2 hours to get from here to downtown Seattle. If you take your car up to a ferry it can take about 5 hours to get here.

Here are Benj and Alex before the Clipper left in the Inner Harbor.

No more major changes to report at this time. We have done 23 dives as of today and have 10 more days to go!

Oh, for people who subscribe to the blog, I updated the post from Sunday with a picture of Naomi's ankle and such, but you have to go the blog live to see the updates apparently.

For people thinking about coming to do HBOT here in Victoria, the HOC is a very relaxed and relaxing place. We appreciate the energy of the people who run it. They have a lot of ammenities for people to use, like the best water filter I have ever seen, infrared sauna's, and more. Today might have been a good day to do the sauna.

More on living in Canada:

Food here is very expensive compared to the States. And I have heard that Seattle in particular is expensive in comparison to say Texas. 1Liter of organic milk cost 3.59, which makes it approximately 12.00/gallon. Regular food prices are as much as WHole Foods organic in the States, only for regular food. An organic box of Macaroni and Cheese is $2.99/box!

Pizza Hut is apparently $28 for a large pizza!

The only things we have found that is reasonably priced are Hum Bao in the International District (.90/bao). Of course its probably laced with melamine.

Thankfully, we brought a LOT of food with us, and have a kitchen to cook in every day. That is saving us.

Gas is also very expensive here, although the price has been dropping. What is it in the States? It's .83/litre, or about 3.20/gallon.

Have a great day everyone and stay WARM!!!