Tuesday 16 August, 2005

Shy whales

This isn't even funny anymore - just when Laura and Harro had left to buy some snacks for tomorrow's whale trip, the whale company called to cancel. This time the excuse was that the ship had broken down - which I like much better than the "captain's eye" from Sunday - but it still sucked big time. Luckily they managed to the Laura and Harro to a trip leaving from Richmond... which is about an hour's bus journey from Vancouver. After some consideration the offer was taken - but not without much cursing. Really annoying - I'd still like to go on a trip myself, but trusting this company is getting harder and harder.

To console ourselves we played a game of Settlers of Stone Age - Dragon was still working, but the game worked pretty much as well with three people than with four. I've been really tired every morning this week, and I'm guessing going to bed after 11 tonight doesn't help... however I don't get to spend much time with my sister so I conseder the time well spent.

Posted by kolibri at 16 August 23:20, 2005
Comments
# 1 - Gary Schmidt (on August 17, 2005 01:39 AM):

That's really a big bummer getting canceled on your whale watching trip. Learn how to avoid such things and find a good company to go whale watching with at www.theguidetowhalewatching.com.

Gary Schmidt
http://whale-watching.blogspot.com


# 2 - kolibri [TypeKey Profile Page] (on August 17, 2005 07:11 AM):

I debated for a while whether to delete this comment as it seems to fairly blatantly be just an ad for your book. However you link to your blog too which seems genuine enough, and the post is on topic - so I'm willing to let it be (anyway, Google won't pick up the URL). But as a gesture of good will, do tell us how should one pick a whale watching company? I have gone with a local company out of convinience, but if there really is a trick on how to pick one it would be nice to know about it.


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