Why is everything so expensive? Why can I not be rich? I had 2 more shots today, the second Hep B from that series and a typhoid also. That came to another $60.00. Then, the health nurse mentioned that I really should consider cholera as well, which comes in tandem with a diarrhea med (yeah, always nice to not have diarrhea while on holiday...) but that's another $80.00. I'll have to think about that one, but you KNOW I'll end up getting that one too.

Then I went to have my eyes checked, which was $30.00, although that made me happy because it should have been $75.00 (lousy BC Government anyhow) I went to a new place (because they give Airmiles, and anything free is worthwhile!) He looked at my eye history and said that since I had had 2 eye surgeries I was entitled to a discount on the $75.00. The guy I usually go to had never bothered to check that out, so this new guy has a patient for life now. However the new glasses are just over $600.00, which made the $45.00 savings on the check up seem like a moot point.

I came home and checked out our Health Care Plan, and they pay $250.00 for vision care once every 24 months, and of course it hasn't been 24 months since I last got new glasses (this whole getting older thing simply sucks...eyes shouldn't change in less than 2 years, bad enough that the hair turns grey, the ass gets a mind of it's own and the flab under my arms keeps waving long after my hands have stopped, now my eyes grow weak as well?) However, it will be 24 months in January so I'll just wait and get new ones when I come back from my holiday. Really, my luck I 'd get new ones before we leave and I'd lose them in a wildebeest stampede.

That's the travel update for now!