Victoria Region  TGIF

November ‘23  TGIFs

Every Friday

18:00 – 20:00

at

Purple Gardens

#138 – 1551 Cedar Hill + Rd

250-477-8866

Extensive [all you can eat] Chinese Buffet

Ample underground parking

Senior Discount

Quiet enough for conversation

We will be having a Mid Island Mensa Experience (MIME) at the Courtenay Museum & Paleontology Centre on Saturday, October 21st.

All are welcome – please join us and visit with your Island Ms! 

(This is a no-cost event, unless you book a museum fossil tour – see below.)

Details:

• The museum offers two fossil tours: 9 AM (before museum opening); and 1 PM.

• The museum fossil tours need to be booked and paid for in advance: $40 + tax for adults; $30 + tax for kids over 4 (there are family rates as well- please see link above).

• Those who want museum fossil tours need to book themselves for their preferred time.

• The museum opens @ 10 AM – entrance by donation.

• I suggest that we connect at the museum for an indoor visit @ noon – those who have taken the early museum fossil tour will have returned by noon and can join up for a museum tour; or you could take a museum tour @ noon, followed by a museum fossil tour @ 1 PM.

• In either case, we could meet for a coffee/lunch before noon across from the museum at the Gladstone Brewing Co., or the Early Bird Cafe a block away, at 4th St & Duncan, if that interests you. Please let me know your preference, and we’ll go with the majority choice.

• Also, Charlotte, who is from Courtenay, very familiar with the area and quite the naturalist, is offering a walkabout that includes fossils and forests!

• There’s plenty of flexibility, and you are welcome to choose what best suits you – you may arrive and leave whenever you like.

• Dress for the weather – it may be cool this week in October –  for sunny skies!
• If you need to carpool and don’t know an attending M, please contact me, (jjpugh57@gmail.com), and I’ll do my best to connect you with a ride from another M.

• Confirmation of your attendance is appreciated for numbers – please let me know by email. (I don’t need to know if you’re not attending, thanks.)

• Any questions? – please give me an email or a call (204-881-0089)

(And – any ideas for a MIME in November? We’ll pause for December, and begin again in January.)

Hope to see you soon in Courtenay!

Jeffery Pugh

• We have booked Group Picnic Area S1-Picnic Shelter (see Group Sites & Picnic Shelters map here🙂
• Directions to Rathtrevor PP here:
• It’s a potluck event – bring your own food and (non-alcoholic) beverages; (smoking/vaping is prohibited, as is alcohol consumption.)
• If you want to grill, please bring your own bbq and propane – there are no cooking facilities at the Group Picnic Shelters.
• Games and activities are welcome, and the beach is nearby  – very family and kid-friendly – feel free to hike and bike about!
• Dress for the weather – it may be cool the last week of September – 🤞 for sunny skies!
• If you need to carpool and don’t know an attending M, please contact me, (jjpugh57@gmail.com), and I’ll do my best to connect you with a ride from another M.
• Confirmation of your attendance is appreciated for numbers – please let me know by email.
• Any questions? – please give me an email or a call (204-881-0089)