On! Into Canada : A Lethargic Trip to The North

The family took a small vacation to the frigid northlands. We rode cool ferries! We stayed in expensive hotels! We saw the little frozen Singapore of the North. It was a nap in a semi foreign country. We saw belugas at the uber expensive Vancouver Aquarium! It was nice to see Amy and William Azaroff and their son Ivan: they are wonderful people.

The hotel we stayed at, in Sooke Harbor on Vancouver Island was new and very strange. It was as if the people who built it had seen a photo of a nice hotel and took it to Home Depot and asked them to build it. They had it all right, but everything was slightly off; from the swimming pool that it took an elevator and four doors to get to ( even to just see) to the hidden elevators and the flat screen TV in the bathroom.

I am frightened to think of what " Mr. Lube Kid's Camp" might be.




Vancouver was interesting. It once was like visiting Everett. Now it is truly a real city and has a vibrant downtown and insane real estate prices. It really does share a lot with Singapore in that regard.

For the record: I do not vacation well. I never know what I should be doing and nobody in our family ever truly wants to do a damn thing. For myself, I just wander around and try to get through it. The family follows my lead, some times we follow Laurie and it all can become sort of muddled. We are pretty awful travelers.