Sunbathing, Mystic Vale and a quick stop at the hostel

The weather was extremely nice this morning. Thus, I decided to go out and read while sunbathing around noon. After about half an hour, I had finally finished the book 'Slaves of the Mastery' and as I really enjoyed the sun, I just kept lying there for a while.
Katrina had given me some leftover califlower that she couldn't finish herself so I cooked some nice califlower with mashed potatoes for lunch.
Afterwards, I joined Margo on a leisurely stroll around Mystic Vale. By now, the clear blue sky had been replaced by grey clouds but we didn't really mind them. The Mystic Vale trail was a little more confusing than I had remembered it so that we more or less walked into two dead ends at the beginning of our walk. They weren't really dead ends though - we probably could have kept walking but I just didn't feel like jumping over a stream, even though it wasn't very wide.
I felt so humbled by the beautiful, huge trees again and I really enjoyed being surrounded by all the nature. On our walk, we saw a big beetle and a big spider. Apart from that, we heard a lot of different birds singing all around us.
After we were done with the walk, we took the next bus back. Margo still wanted to go on to Oak Bay and I quickly went home in order to relax a few minutes and have a snack before work.

My 3.75 hour shift at work this evening went by pretty quickly. As there had been a lot of customers in the afternoon, there were a lot of things to tidy up and when I was done with that, I spent the rest of my shift organizing and counting some abalone shell jewelry.
Before going home, I stopped by the Ocean Island Inn in order to say goodbye to Jay, who would be leaving on a long trip soon. I had expected to find people playing rock-paper-scissors tonight but for some reason, they had abolished that event. Instead it was movie night at the hostel. As I didn't feel like watching some random movie and I also didn't want to disturb anyone by chatting with Jay, I left after a few minutes.
I actually managed to miss my bus stop on my way home. In fact I didn't just miss it... by the time I had realized that I had gone too far, I was already two bus stops further North and by the time I got off the bus, I was three bus stops too far. Thus, I still had to walk for about 15 minutes to get home.
At home, I watched another episode of 'Suits' with Katrina before going to bed.