Traveling with the wayward warrior cheerleaders.
We set out early from Victoria to return to Vancouver for our final day of vacation. Ellen DeFlora Sciortino must’ve seen the Wizard, as she pushed through her fear of flying to enable us to take a seaplane and return to Vancouver on a 35-minute flight instead of a minimum 4 hours taxi-ferry-taxi trip. Ellen has courage and will fight you with one hand tied behind her back. Interestingly, as the seaplane is on water and the air, the stewardess had gills and wings having adapted to her role. We landed safely in Vancouver and having paid for the Northern Exposure package, we were flashed by the pilot, as we deplaned.
With one fear conquered, we headed to the Capilano Suspension Bridge to walk between two mountains on a gorge. We Wallendaed our way across the expanse. At times the suspense was killing me, as I wasn’t sure if we’d go one sway or the other. Ellen finished the morning off skydiving, paragliding, running with the bulls, putting her head in a lion’s mouth, eating blowfish, and doing the tide pod challenge.
We descended the mountain and went to the Vancouver Aquarium where Ellen swam in the shark tank and fed the piranhas barehanded. Lynne and I had to finally pull her away from trying to plug an electric eel into a socket.
We finished the day with dinner in Gastown. Ellen wanted to light a homeless man’s canned chili farts in Gastown, but we felt that she had already faced too many fears and conquered too many dangers. Tomorrow’s challenge will be ordering the in-air seafood meal on our way home. Until next time…
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