hehe! he'll kill me!

a little too much japanese tea perhaps :)

but he's not here so i can get away with it. ger just left for buenos aires this afternoon where he will be for the next 5 days sorting out the final details for his visa. the lucky poo gets to go back to 30 degrees, and he was even so cruel as to tell me just before leaving me in the middle of a blizzard, that he has packed his togs.

so i am alone in canada for the next week! what shall i do? well, i need to look around for some furniture coz we found an apartment! it's really nice - brand spanking new, big windows, great view, fancy kitchen. we should be moving in as soon as ger gets back. for now i am living in the 'best western' hotel, not far from the new apartment. ger's company freaked out when they discovered how much they were paying for the sheraton (personal opinion: seems strange that they would put us there in the first place - did they not connect the room rate on the reservation with how much they would have to pay???) and promptly moved us out. ger and i are somewhat relieved, as living in the sheraton for 3 weeks started to mess with our minds ;P. the strangely robotic staff were not the scariest thing... what it was doing to our expectations of basic necessities was what freaked me out. we arrived at the best western hotel yesterday afternoon (a very comfortable, spacious, and way-beyond-my-personal-budget hotel) and shock horror - no-one came rushing out to help us with our bags!!! AND we had to take our own bags up to our room!! We clambered into the elevator and gave each other rolling-eye looks. And then it dawned on me - in only 3 weeks we had turned into big fat snobs! It didn't take long for us to shake it off though. i think we both feel much more comfortable here (although it unsettles me to realise that before staying in the sheraton this place would have been luxury, now it's just spacious, clean and comfy) and i somehow feel free-er! perhaps because we actually have free internet right here in the room (don't have to suffocate myself in layers of insulation to run across to the mall just to use the internet anymore!), and there's a fully functional kitchen in our room where i can cook (and not just microwave!), and the fridge is empty for us to put our own things in (and not jam-packed full of incredibly expensive tiny bottles of alcohol that we didn't dare to touch). i like it here :)

anyway i have put up some more pics, not of anything in particular, but just of our potterings around over the past week. there are some canmore cross-country skiing pics there (the rockies beat ruapehu hands down), some eating pics, and some more freezing-our-butts-off pics.

http://wedged.showcard.co.nz/gallery/album20?page=1

cuidate!
besos,
d xx