We began our trip to Victoria yesterday by having the alarm go off at 2:50 am. A rude awakening. Meg and Mike were off to Vegas and offered to take us to the airport. Meg's passport was due to expire at the end of November so she could not print out her boarding pass--she actually had to speak with someone and anyone who has ever flown to the States from Calgary, knows you have to allow plenty of time to clear customs. Hence the early morning rising.
We arrived at 5:00am for a 6:30 flight to Vancouver. All went well and we easily made our connection to Victoria. We landed in the pouring rain and our cab driver said it had been raining hard for 2 hours. I hauled out our raincoats but by the time we got to the apartment the rain had eased.
The apartment was a mess. We had left it arranged in such a way that those remediating our building could reach the windows, etc with ease. What we had forgotten was how much dust drywalling creates. After getting our groceries, we spent most of the day washing everything down. There are no window coverings up so we had to tack a bedsheet over our bedroom window. It felt like we were young, poor students again.
We decided to have a second breakfast when we realized that except for some crackers and a soda, we had not eaten anything in 9 hours. Our neighbour popped in and we got caught up on all the construction news so in the end, second breakfast became lunch.
As is tradition, we went to Christies for supper. We shared Spanikopita and then I had their Souvlaki chicken wrap with a garden salad and Glen had their special which was a roast beef dinner. We washed it down with Cypress Honey Lager. We went to bed at 8:00pm and slept soundly.
Comments for this post
