Done and almost dusted

Today we have 1) sent off all the extra information that the High Commission wanted in order to finish processing the application. 2) faxed the documents to reserve our accommodation for the first 2 months we are in Vancouver. Yes, you guessed it, we went for the over budget downtown accommodation.

Now we're just waiting, totally paranoid, for the letter from the docs saying that everything is fine and they've sent the results to CHC. It'll be a load off my mind when that happens.

I've got to go to the docs tomorrow though. I've not been feeling right for weeks - uncomfortable stomach and now a pain in the area of my spleen. Hope it's nothing too serious :(

Last weekend we went to London and had a last trawl around the touristy places, although it was hot and we were tired on Friday, busy meeting internet folk on Saturday and hungover on Sunday, so we didn't get as much done as we planned. Spent a fair bit of time around Leicester Square as they had an event there, with excerpted performances from a lot of West End shows. The best we saw was the Blue Men, an experience made even better by it coinciding with the fly-past for the Queen's 80th Birthday - that was pretty cool.

The Internet folks were mostly a really nice bunch. Thank god - it would have been such a disappointment if I hadn't liked any of them in real life having spent a good part of 2 years in their company day to day! We sat outside The Trafalgar pub in Greenwich in the sun and drank too much and eventually left at midnight. I'm trying to organise a Bristol Meet now before I go off to Canada.

Off to Devon tomorrow night. We're staying with my parents in the Budleigh Salterton flat for 2 nights, then to Brixham for 1 night and spending Sunday with Graham's grandparents. That's going to be emotional as it'll probably be the last time we see them for a long time (unless they come to Ade and Ellie's wedding at the end of October and I'm able to get back for it).