Passport Canada

There are seventeen persons ahead of you...your call is very imortant to us...Somebody will be with you shortly...Yup, you've got it still no passport! And I'm on hold once again. Got in the queue a lot quicker today though. Ooops, getting excited we're down to 13!! They told me last Thursday that they received my application 1st week of Dec. but they hadn't done anything with it yet, to phone back Monday blah, blah, blah. That I may have to drive to Victoria to pick it up...so here I sit to see what's next.

So since the last post I've had my National Geographic Photography Seminar in Vancouver and it was so good. I wish it had been more than a day. The facilitators were amazing, never a dull moment. And it was a very diverse group, about a quarter were like myself, people just trying to learn to take a better picture and maybe one day getting one published but the rest were serious photographers, students and commercial getting more tips of the trade so to speak. I hadn't realized there were only 4 of this particular seminar so the folks attending were from all over Western Canada and the States. Right at the beginning I thought I was going to be in way over my head but I could hold my own quite nicely so I was pleased. Can't wait until we can find another one and we will make a trip out of it. Jim can enjoy a nice hotel in a cool city and I will go off and drool over expensive camera equipment...

Yeah!!! I got through finally and they mailed my passport out last Friday, should be here today or tomorrow. San Jose here we come!!! I tell you Jim & I are looking so forward to sunshine and warmth we can hardly stand it. Apparently it's supposed to be sunny here today but it's so fogged in you can barely see the water and it's high tide!

Time to go, I'm back to work today and it's going to be such a shock as I haven't been there since September! Don just got a new point of sale system so we have to enter all the stock, hopefully this new one is a little more user friendly compared to the last one. It'll be nice to back with everyone though, they're a good group.

These are my latest eagle shots, he's such a beauty.