‘where is my car?’

“Where is my car?” what an important question that I repeated many times. I am staying at my daughter’s condo for 2 weeks, so to be able to do some errands and visit the city of Vancouver, I rented a car for 2 weeks. My daughter had an appointment at 15.00 p.m., so 1/2 hour before the appointed time, we go out of the condo to get my car….no car!where is my car? I can tell you that I am panicking – I am new in this city, my daughter has an appointment, and here we are no car!

We go back up to her apartment, she cancels her appointment, and she calls “Busters” – the towing company. Thank God they have the car – it has been towed around 11.00 a.m. because it was parked too near the closest sidewalk. So I get into a taxi ,give the address , and while we are going there, I ask the driver if he has been there before – he starts to laugh and tells me quite candidly “yes of course, many times”! When I arrive there, I pay the charges, and I am very much surprised to see the many cars that are there parked, and new ones coming in being towed.

After paying the charges, I get into my car, drive away and start thinking how lucky I was to have been with my daughter who knew who to call to get my car back. I now have my peace of mind.

“One of a Kind Show”

Being in Vancouver for a couple of weeks because of my daughter’s surgery, I was lucky to see in the Vancouver Sun an ad on “One of a Kind of show” -  This is where crafts are shown in the convention Centre , with a small  admission – At this time of the year, the room was fully decorated with christmas decorations with  few christmas trees and  with a person playing the piano.   The lighting was subdued so this made this whole room  quite attractive and to my eyes, very much enticing to buying.

There were numerous crafts on display – and when you reached the end of  this room, there were quite a few displays of food, chocolate from Belgium, honey and tins of  pacific salmon.

This was my first experience and I really enjoyed it.  Finally at the end of my tour, I went back to see this artist again and I purchased a  small painting from her.  I know for sure that at this time of the year, there are shows like all over, so at the end of November, I will be visiting another one which should be again very interesting.  It is always  good to encourage artisans of  that calibre.