Butschs go America *ENGLISH*

Pictures in the entry before!

...let's catch up (hopefully)

The day of Butsch's arrival itself is worth a whole story, but to make it short: Pia is already at the Sunlotus and Alex misses the bus, no Internet, no Phone, Pia driving there, driving back, driving there again because we just miss each other (1h each way)...lots of beer inside of Alex und finally: romantic and pouring rain without wipers, it's 2am in the morning, a mountain road and fog. After 48h without sleep for Alex and over 40 Butsch-less nights for both of us, the bed seems to be the softest and most comfortable one in the world.

People, work and freetime at the sunlotus were - especially for Alex - a huge but welcomed contrast to the Viennese every-day-life (Pia got used to those strange North Americans)
Patrick worked at the sunlotus just as we did - the next Canadian you cannot not be friends with! 21 too and a very funny guy we built stuff with and had nice conversations about almost everything...

Anita, one of the owners, cooks. Oh, and how she cooks! We had fish 90% of the time, delicous fish, stuffed fish, fish for breakfast, smoked fish, grilled fish, salty, sweet, awesome. Each meal a party in our mouths, with us as the VIP guests.
Might as well have something to do with the fact that our workd mainly consisted of building a smoke shack (as Canadian as our new lumberjack-flannel shirts!), which had to be tested a lot. njam.

Paul, the other owner, told us what to do. Kind of. Nice and weird, as the Canadians are, yes, he told us a lot, but we figured out what to do ourselves :)
Ginger, the daughter, hates Pia after 30 minutes. I am sorry, but on the other hand, it is not my fault that donkey bit you, you know you have to make your hand flat and they don't like Cheese-sticks. You hate me and your Mom will kill the donkeys, you say. The next day we play Dollies and you smile, Alex comes and you're laughing and jumping.

After four days (for Alex, ten for Pia): Party and Bye... on the road again

First stop: Victoria. We both know it yet, what makes wandering through the streets together it even more beautiful... the first days of our "almost-only-good-weather" period!
After a night in Victoria, we are making our way to the mainland again to stay in Vancouver for the next two nights (by the way, the most livable city in the world followed by... VIENNA!) at a B&B: As if we would do house-sitting for the "Seventh Heaven" family while they're on vacation. We were almost the only ones in one of two guesthouses (the other one was filled with elderly people). And it was clean!

What generally happened in Vancouver: Pia wants to learn Flamenco now.

Goodbye, Canada! Howdy USA! No bible in the room.