Subletting

I’m subletting our current apartment which I found and rented through airbnb.com. I wonder if any of my friends and family could offer advice about our current situation. The listing on airbnb is under Genevieve (and it has her last name), but I have dealt exclusively with her husband Seth since we have stayed here;…

More Seattle

On Wednesday we met up with Laurel’s NaNoWriMo friend Gillian at the Experience Music Project which we all enjoyed. In addition to music exhibits, there are science fiction, fantasy, and architecture exhibits. Charlie really liked that last one that included Lego models of the world’s tallest buildings. On Thursday we toured Chihuly Glass Museum. Dale…

Seattle

We woke up at 4:00 am today (Tuesday) in Vancouver, left the apartment a little after 5:00 and walked three miles to the train station. Then we took Amtrak to Seattle. We’ll be here through Friday evening. I had told Mom about this trip last month when I planned it. She said she and Dad…

My Mom

My mom died at 2 pm EDT today. She had been in the hospital for a few days with pneumonia but wasn’t responding to antibiotics. Maureen and Jane were with her as were my dad’s sister Verna and my cousin Derek. I prepared an obituary for her today, but the funeral details are still being…

Whistler, Episode 2

We’ve enjoyed our time here in Whistler and will be heading back to Vancouver tomorrow morning. Due to the nature of the development here – pedestrian mall/ski resort connected to a curvy street and trail system – it’s easy (at least for us) to get lost. Charlie, who has had an excellent sense of direction…

Whistler, BC

We returned to Vancouver from Maui Friday morning, moved from one apartment to another Saturday afternoon, and took a taxi to Whistler Sunday afternoon. Monday was Laurel’s 14th birthday, and we went zip lining through the temperate rainforest in the morning. There were just two other zip liners with us, a man and his 8-year-old…