Accommodations

We're outfitted (sort of, since Kim still doesn't have her white parka), our flights are booked and now we've officially paid in full for our lodgings. Accommodations were a challenge. For a while we were on waiting lists for hotels, cruise ships, RVs and RV parks while also pricing tents at Canadian Tire and checking out vagrancy laws applicable to overnight stays in Stanley Park. But we found private accommodations, renting a condo from what seem to be very nice people who bought a place in Kitsilano for their son while he was in university.

We got an e-mail from the nice people today. They reiterated that it wasn't luxurious but that the condo was being wired for cable, the 30+ inch LCD tv had arrived and that they had repainted just for us. It cost less than a hotel and it sounds homey. Plus it has a kitchen. Let's hope we haven't been sending our money to the west coast just to find out that we're the victims of a minor fraud under (technical Criminal Code speak). We don't think so; they really do seem like nice people with a son (who has a facebook page), a husband who really did show up as faculty at the appropriate university and whose music is available online and a wife who, compared to her male relatives is a bit of a mystery.

Well, that's it for now. We've paid; here's to hoping we've paid for something.

With mounting anticipation,

The Entity
Kim Boara Alexander
Paul McCulloch Alexander