She tells me she won't actually be doing the lobbying, just supporting it ("I didn't shoot the guy, I just loaded the gun and handed it to the killer...") but it is an amazing opportunity in a fantastic city. I've heard the East Coast is a little different from the West; "business casual" doesn't mean flip-flops and shorts, and there's no problem with work/life balance because no one has the time to have a life. It turns out that The West Wing and House of Cards are actually documentaries!
The sad bit is, of course, that we'll be moving away from Vancouver. We always knew we were here temporarily, but the longer we stayed the further off we hoped temporarily would become. This city, mostly because of the people we've met, immediately felt like home.
We have a couple of months before we'll be back over the other side of the 49th parallel, where words like "water" and "Peter" must again be pronounced with a "d" in the middle. Joy! Still, no one in Canada has ever said "I just love your accent" because there are too bloody many Brits here already.
On a side note, Pete's UK birth certificate lists the British Consulate in DC as his place of birth, as is the case for all the Queen's subjects who have the audacity to be delivered in the American colonies. It'll be nice for him to finally see where he was born.
