yaletown weekend

keeping in line with my role as a cat-sitter, i have agreed to look after my friend, kerri's, cat for the weekend. the clincher? she and her boyfriend live in yaletown. like i could say no! i am currently sitting in their solarium, looking out at their 11th floor view. i can see "the elbow room" from here and a guy digging through the garbage bins. ah, downtown life.

their apartment is great. craig gave me the grand tour yesterday. the funniest part was that i had parked at one of the metered parking stalls but didn't have any change. since i figured he was only going to hand me the keys and run out to his dragonboat practice, i figured i'd be okay for five minutes. twenty minutes later, i came out to my car - it was still parked where it was supposed to be and there was no ticket. i'm telling you, things keep going like this (aside from when my car got locked in the underground parkade - also in yaletown, about a block away from here), i'm really going to start believing that i'm above the parking laws in this city. ah, the power. anyway, back to the apartment. it overlooks the hundreds of other apartments within a four block radius but it's kind of nice. so different from suburbia. perhaps not really me but different in a good way. i think i may have to try out the hot tub on the 2nd floor - it's outdoors.

the only thing i forgot to ask them was how to buzz people into the building. i know the code to give and i've finally found the phone that you use to do so but i don't know which key it is. some places is "6"; others, it's the "#" sign. how am i supposed to eat if i can't order in??? normally, i'd be okay going out to eat on my own but for some reason, doing it in yaletown just doesn't feel right. i haven't been eating dinner the past few weeks anyway but, of course, i'm feeling hungry now. i wish i had someone in town that i could call - i asked dave if he wanted to go for lunch this weekend and he said he's working all weekend on a file but can make it for coffee on sunday morning. he lives about a block and a half from here - what a coincidence, eh?

anyway, i'm going to "unpack" (i managed to bring one small overnight back for three nights!) and then figure out if i'm really hungry or not. probably not.