Tonight we're still on Vancouver Island as we help Brian's stepmother move from one suite to another in her retirement apartment. We're staying at the Four Points by Sheraton Victoria Gateway.
Like the Westin property we stayed at last night, this hotel is a ways from the downtown core. If you want to stay on the Inner Harbour, this is not the place for you. It's actually a couple of blocks off the Trans-Canada Highway and sits next door to the Victoria-area Costco, who list their address as Langford BC, rather than the Victoria touted by Starwood.
For us the location is fine and it's a pleasant property to amass stays and Starwood points.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
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