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I have written this on my laptop, while traveling and before going to bed in the hotel room in Seattle.

Right after school today, I met Jon on the sky-train to get some music CDs from him, and then went to Metrotown to get picked up by my parents, as we had to go to Seattle to renew our Canadian temporary residence permits/visas. I find it incredibly dumb that one has to go OUT of the country, to get something that allows you to remain in the country. It just seems to defeat the purpose totally.

Either way, we drove down here, via the Peace Arch crossing, and as an oddity, it was snowing HEAVIER south of the border than it was in Canada! Go figure. The drive wasn't bad, stopped at one rest stop along the way to stretch the legs and use the facilities, before continuing onwards.

We are staying in the Day's Inn at 7th and Blanchard downtown. They had a special offer, $69/room/night. So we have two rooms, 210 and 211. The "double" bed in here is really on the small side, both in width and length. The normal rates here are $150/room/night, so I suppose we are getting a good deal, and it is only 6 blocks walk to the Canadian Consulate downtown.

We had dinner at a Thai resturant by the name of "Toi" downtown, on 4th and ?. The food really really rocked there, I had a yellow chicken curry, which was really aromatic, and not too killer spicy. One annoying thing about the US, is that you have to be 21 to drink! Which sucks, because I wanted to have a Tiger beer with my curry. Tiger is a beer from Singapore, which I haven't seen much of here in North America, and I remember tasting it before, and it was good. I think it would have really fit with the curry, but none for me, since I'm only 19. The food there was really authentic I would say, and the desert I had was nice too! I had a ginger cremé brule, and my brother had mango sorbet.

From the window here in my hotel room, there is a wireless LAN signal coming off a building downtown, but it is not strong enough for me to connect and leech off it. Otherwise I would be putting this post up on LJ already. Possibly tomorrow while I am downtown, I will find a WLAN to connect into and get this posting up. I should have looked up WLANs in downtown Seattle before I came here, but I didn't get to.

I am lying here in bed, writing this on my laptop now, with the power cord across the room to the nearest outlet, re-charging the batteries. Why don't they think and put another outlet this side? I dunno.

I am going to go to sleep now, since I have to be AT the Consulate at 8.30am tomorrow morning, so that means getting up towards 7PM.

Laptops rock!