Bad Nights Sleep but still a fun Sunday Wine Tour

Saturday night found our boat being pushed around a bit by a storm that was pounding the northwest. Sure the boat rocked a bit, but wasn't really bad... HOWEVER, the door between our 'deck patio' and the one next to us had been unlocked. As the boat would rock, that door would bang, bang, bang back and forth. It took a special key to lock it shut, we, on our side, could not prop it up to stay in one position, so, that pretty much kepts us up a couple hours.... grrrrr... BUT, nothing keeps the Diva's down for long.
Jean, Cyn, Julie and Liz signed up for a wine tour in Port Alberni. We had to tender in... a little boat that takes you to shore. Quite drizzly when we were on our way... Christy and Debby had come along to explore the town, but decided, they wanted no part of the rain, so they tendered back! Fortuantely, the weather cleared in about 40 minutes for those of us that remained.
We caught our train to the winery; and immediately, received a wine glass on the train and it was filled with wine. Fortunately, Liz had the brains to remind us, this glass, which they filled to max with some yummy wine, was only the first and we may want to pace ourselves... Good idea.
The steam train was fun, conductors hillarious, the views stupendous and the winery and the scrumptious feast they provided were wonderful memories. We donned our cat eye glasses which the crowd loved.... we were being photographed by quite a few of the folks there. Stars in our own minds, heehee!

This picture is funny.... in the elevator, they had carpets that told you what day of the week it was.... Her we are, getting ready to go out for the tenders to the Port Alberni

 

from Port Alberni, our boat

 

Look at these babes with the boat in the background

 

 

Aren't we cuties....

 

Egads, don't know why this one is so dark.... but we were the bees knees !

 

 

 

Can we say a conductor with a super sense of humor......

 

Views out of the train

 

Cyn is educating us on what the particular wine we are sample is... Julie is obviously, really interested....

 

 

We walked right through the winery back to the train....

 

 

 

ChooChoo... our train is coming down the track to take us home!

 

Oh no, one more sample of wine on the way back....

 

 

Can we say tender...?  This is the little boat we used to get back and forth....

 

Good bye Port Alberni