So by Monday I was thoroughly fed up of giving all of my money to the hostel, and had found a couple of girls from the flight to look for an apartment with.
10am monday morning was flat hunting time. Spent most of the morning getting rather disheartened that we couldn't get through to any of the adverts that looked good and that most stuff was either out of our budget, or entirely unfurnished with no option to include stuff, which is all very fine if you're staying somewhere a long time, but we only really wanted it for the ski season...
Anywayz, after a very frustrating morning, we'd managed to line up a whole one viewing and decided to go over and check out the North Shore for ourselves, see if we could find any 'to let' signs to aid our search...
After walking off the sea bus, more or less the first place we came across was a realty and letting agency. Think our fairy god mother must having been watching over us, becuase we walked in there and were sorted out more or less instantly - and were served tea in a tea pot to boot... After a few options we chose to see an apartment which is only 3 blocks from the sea bus (10 minutes into downtown vancouver) and likewise from the buses up to the mountains. It also turned out to be about as good as it was gonna get in this location. It came entirely furnished, right down to ice cream scoop and pizza slicer... It's even due to have it's french windows replaced sometime soon, so i don't even need to worry about head butting them... ;o)
Roll on celebratory drinks with random australians that evening.
Signed the contract the next day and exchanged keys on wednesday :D
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