Port Alberni... The Bra Free Zone Party (BFZ)

July 12, 2008

Full of anticipation, I took off on Saturday morning to meet up with a bunch of riders at the Beach Hut in QB... we seem to meet there a lot these days. But what a wonderful place it is for such meetings.

The first picture here is of a Suzuki Intruder that caught my attention. And it's for sale too. Yikes. The custom paint job alone has me dizzy. She's a big bike, 1500 cc's. The bike also has a windshield and saddle bags, but the owner didn't have them on for this ride. I'd really like to own this ride!

Anyway, we met up with quite a large group of riders and headed to Port Alberni for the BFZ party. Eric (Flo's brother and a recent rider) led the ride to PA and did an excellent job. I'd heard lots about the PA Hump (as it's called) and felt a little apprehensive at first, but soon relaxed into the ride and enjoyed myself tremendously. There are quite a few nice twisties and narrowing sections and gorgeous lakes and mountain scenes to please the eyes and heart. Once we were in PA I was asking about the Hump, only to hear that we'd done it. Well then, that's another one under my belt. There were 10 bikes in our ride up... the six men here and Judy, Flo and me. I've tried to get this picture of the guys larger, but it keeps staying small. Dang anyway.

We went to a Chinese Restaurant for lunch and suddenly the waittresses came racing out of the kitchen area, one of them with tears of fear in her eyes. It seems there was a fight going on in there, and one guy got shoved into the freezer. Wow, those poor girls were quite scared. I thought if it had been me working there, I'd have been out the door permanently. What a way to start the day. But it was just the beginning. We went searching for dollar stores in hopes of finding pylons to do parking lot practising. Didn't find them, but we found a few wigs that we ended up buying for the party. Judy and Flo and I actually put them on under our helmets and rode to PA with them. Perhaps we looked young with hair flying back, because we sure got lots of honking and waving at us. The girls in the dollarama were in stitches too. Not to mention the staff and customers at Walmart. Nothing shy about the bunch of us.

We went to Jilly's home and the party truly got started after we left the guys to go check out the Tall Ships. After all, it was a women's party to celebrate Flo and her accomplishments and also Dragon's birthday, though she hurt her ankle and didn't manage to make the weekend. Lisa and Linda also got wigs... in fact if you check out Flo's picture site, you'll find some hilarious footage as well as pics of our party.

Jilly was a fantabulous hostess and the food and drinks were fantastic. Flo and Judy and I stayed overnight, though the other PA gals all managed to get brought home. Pity cause it would have been great to spend the entire night with these women. Mind you, we were pretty tired and very glad to each find a comfortable bed around midnight.

And we love Gibby too, cause he made killer omelets for us for our breakfast before we started off on another day's adventures.