We Have Accommodation!!!!
Today we went to see this other house which is near the UBC and around 30mins on the bus from downtown. It was so nice. All cream walls and laminate flooring downstairs then a really thick cream carpet up the stairs and an awesome kitchen with a giant fridge and oven to make Christmas dinner a breeze!! It was unfurnished except for beds but after we discussed it over coffee and tea and told the landlord we wanted it he said that him and his wife could give us a sofa, a dining table & chairs, a TV and DVD player since we were only staying for 6 months so all we really need is pans and a stereo and things which should be easy enough to get hold of considering Ikea's pretty near us. I'm quite excited because it had a log fire too and Christmas is coming up and it's going to be amazing! But I got pretty stressed out because I had to give him the deposit in cash since I haven't put any money into my Canadian account yet and I don't have cheques for any of my others and since I can only take out a certain amount per day it said I had inadequate funds. And that's not cool when you're in a new country and it takes a while to swap funds. But we each gave him half of what we owe so we're meeting him tomorrow to give him the rest. So it's all ok and my stress levels have decreased since checking my internet banking.
The house is in a pretty nice (family-orientated) area and there's lots of fancy shops near us and a giant Safeway for all our grocery needs. I want loads of people to come and visit me though so everyone can see how nice our home is.
After our dodgy back-of-a-car transaction of rent funds we walked to Granville Island to go to the market for lunch which was pretty cool but I was still feeling all fraught so I don't think I appreciated it enough. The brewery's there though so we'll be going back when we aren't all broke so I'll be more impressed then. And there's a tea stall so about a month's wages (next stop- employment!) will be going to them methinks.
Tonight I think we'll probably just go out for some dinner and a couple drinks to celebrate our new home. Apparently the guy who lives in our home at the moment had to leave Mexico because drugs lords were after him and stole his cattle and burnt his home to the ground, so hopefully he didn't leave them a forwarding address. Russian gangsters and Mexican drug lords. Finding accommodation's a dangerous business in these parts.
Granville Street Bridge
(blurry) English Bay Harbour
A mural painting of a dog and a seal near English Bay
Me looking happy as hell next to a giant cup of tea (might have something to do with the happiness) after deciding on our accommodation.
The mountains from Broadway
Me and Greg with our fantastic cakes
Granville Island
(this is a repeat which blogger won't let me delete)
A close up of my fantastic cake with Downtown Vancouver in the background
A big minging fish at the market
Me and Debbie on the Seabus
Me with my (now seemingly default) happy photo face at English Bay
6 comments:
alice i am so jealous! :(
it sounds amazing so far and your pics are well good.i wish i was coming out to visit you in your log fire house though.
i'm going in august to Victoria which is were my bro lives.tommy (who's in NYC) is going out to visit him tomorrow.i wanna go!!!!
more updates!
x
Aw come earlier an then you can visit us!!
I can't wait for our log fire!x
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