Allow me to explain...

Ok, here's the whole story in a nutshell, beginning in August:

I didn't want to go to vonage too early in Calgary because it sucks, so I waited until 12 business days before the move to ask for it and the number transfer(they say you need 10 business days).
-vonage took a further 5 business days to place the request.

-By that time, our new tenants had requested a phone number at the house, and Telus denied the vonage request.

-neither company called me about this.

-I finally called vonage, and they sent me to Telus, who sent me to vonage, etc for a half day.

-Telus eventually said they'd forward the 276 number to my virtual vonage number, and that all I needed to do was wait a week and ask vonage to place the request again. (btw, no one told me that the virtual number was in Lethbridge so we were paying long distance for every call)
-Vonage placed the request. denied by Telus because the number was being forwarded. Telus said we had to clear the number from the system, reactivate it, and then vonage could make the request again.
- they cleared the number from the system. I called to reactivate it, and they said I needed a line to reactivate it, they couldn't have it at the CO because vonage couldn't request a transfer from the CO.
-My head exploded.

-we decided to keep our virtual number, because we still didn't know it was virtually in Lethbridge.
-I was shaking with rage, so I typed the damn thing wrong in my first email.
-then someone let me know they had to dial long distance from Calgary to reach me.
-what was left of my head exploded again.
-I called Vonage, and the only thing we could do was get another number.

Anyway, more about Mexico!! The restaurant the other night was good, we had a shrimp fajita and a big chicken burrito plus a coupla beers for $25. It's very nice inside, air conditioned, and quite popular. It was surprisingly a little bland, but I am quite sure they have hot sauce. It will definitely be a stop when people arrive down here. It's called Ramon's.

Was going to cook Shrimp Santorini last night, but when I went to turn a burner on, we had run out of propane. So we used the backup thunder range, and we're waiting for the gas truck to come by. We might need to get Pollo Asado for tonight.

written in the dirt on a car: "no lave - experimento científico" -don't wash, scientific experiment!

Shadow is getting very brave about waves, even waves higher than his head! If I go in, he'll brave anything to come out to be sure I'm safe. As far as he's concerned, I have no idea how to swim!! And his new big thing is to go into the water, then come out and have a serious roll in the sand. So we often have a "clear the sand out of Shadow's eyes" party after our walks.

So we're well, thanks for the comments, take care, and never ever mess with Vonage and Telus on the same day.