Monday, 18 May 2009. I woke up to find it not only cloudy but with light snow flurries that has left a tiny bit of snow on my car. It was quite windy and blowing about the falling snow in. Such is springtime in Edmonton, Alberta.
Using some of the material I got at the visitor center I chose a bed-and-breakfast near it Dawson Creek and made reservations. I would be there for two evenings and would probably get a chance to practice my German while there.
After fortifying myself with some coffee and a scone I headed down to meet with Johanna after dropping by the bank. I found it this time, and got some needed Canadian money. Traffic was rather light and I had no trouble finding her home.
We went for nice leisurely breakfast over at a local restaurant and we had a very nice breakfast, I ate too much, and we had in very nice long chat. All too soon we headed back. I dropped off Johanna, topped up the gas tank and headed back.
As I had the couple hours, I was able to sort the laundry I did yesterday. Now to attempt to play some catch-up of was my travel diary.
Midafternoon, Charmaine arrived with her stack of photos from her trip up the Alcan. We had a very nice discussion about traveling the highway. She mentioned a couple places that I added to my itinerary as places I should see.
We must have chatted for about two hours and then all six of us went out for a very nice Greek dinner. Good food and good conversation ruled the evening. Too soon the evening came to an end and we headed back. When we carried on the conversation for a while that at the house before we called it an evening. While the kids didn’t have school, everybody else had worked, and I needed to get out relatively early to get ready to head out to Dawson Creek.
I was also introduced to Victoria. She is the young lady from the Philippines who works part-time as the nanny for Lyn and Tony’s two very intelligent and active children. William is 4 and Lena is 6.
