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On the road again.....I am sitting on April's couch. They are still in bed sleeping. It is May sixth, my apologies for taking so long to write. Its been a super busy full week.

I got home on Tuesday, took Wrangler to the pet resort on Wednesday and headed to Cookie's on Thursday. And now its Sunday.

Whilst I was still in Penticton, I received a text from my sister asking if I would like to rent my basement to an intern at Urban Systems for the summer. She is a friend of a friend of the Bootles up in Prince George. I thought about it for a nano second, I actually did as I truly love living by myself, but on the other hand its nice to have someone in the home. Its big and I can share.

So after dropping an excited, crazy happy Wrangler at his fave place in the world, I went home and went downstairs and loaded up Anton's leftovers into a bag and hid them away under the stairs. There was a lot of Russian stuff! I cleaned up and made the bed etc... It really isn't a very suitable place, it has a lot of my stacked boxes down there and shared laundry etc.. Compared to other places that she had appointments to see, it is pretty rustic. But because of that rusticism I would charge only 200 bucks a month.

She arrived with her father from Quesnel right on time. Dad was checking things out to make sure she would be safe. Well, she loved it! And as we talked, it surfaced that both he and I were originally from Smithers. In fact he told me he lived in Georgetown halfway between Telkwa and Quick...his last name is George. So I impulsively blurt out..."You must be native!" He laughed and said yes...and upon closer inspection he totally appeared native too. What a dummy I can be.

We reminisced stories, some were mutual events we shared. Soon they went off to see the other places but within twenty minutes they were back, they phoned and cancelled those visits and totally accepted my place. Taylor is moving in next week and I couldn't be happier!

The trip down to Cook's was beautiful. I did the Coke the whole way. I was worried that the low road may have been flooded...and according to the news it is.

Cookie had gift certificates to a lovely restaurant out in Cloverdale called the Vault. It used to be a bank. I put a pic down below, you can sort of see the place. Dinner was delicious. I had lamb shank with mashed spuds! Yummy! Her sister Gail came as well and we had a wonderful time.

The next day was full of her children and grandchildren. I just love that family and I got to meet one of the latest additions...eight month old Oakley, Tj's baby. He is absolutely beautiful with very red hair!

Yesterday we went to Guilford Mall...a mall bigger than my original hometown. I have not been shopping like that for about five years! Such fun and I bought some stuff I don't really need but wanted. I did over five thousand steps! Pretty much all in that mall. Then around four I headed over to April's, stopping on the way for teen burgers from A&W for supper.

On the way to Penticton last week I stopped in Merritt for a bite of food. So I looked at all the many options near the highway turnoff, rejected them, then actually drove right down into Merritt to A&W and bought a teen burger (the absolute best burger on the planet...and I don't even like burgers much). I had thoughts that I would get the burger, go find a nice field to picnic in while the dog ran around and played. But no...I didn't even get out of the parking lot before I gorfed that thing down! Soooo goooood!

In Penticton there is a place called Burger 55. You go in, get a clip board with a paper on it that you check off all the boxes of what you want. Bun type, meat type, all the additions and toppings and side dishes. Well the average price of those burgers is fourteen dollars. Its fun!

We did that one night, as we always do. And the burger I created was pretty good, but couldn't hold a candle to the ten dollar cheaper teen burger from A&W. I love those things!!!

Today would have been Spod's and my 29th aniversary. He has been gone for three years now. So all year I have been saving bits of money here and there and now there is enough for me to take the two girls and their squeezes to Hy's for dinner. The average meal there is about 75 bucks. There is a bottle of wine that is over four thousand dollars!!!

But this was a special place that Bill would take me to on a rare special occasion. He loved it there. So to commemorate him we are going to gather there tonight and eat eat eat!!! And we are going to drink prosecco and toast him. I can't wait. I shall surreptitiously take some pics to post here! TTYL