Scavenger Hunt

1. Answer the phone. That's 40 points right there. It's the opera. Can you play Elektra? Starting in about 36 hours?
2. Meet your wife at the Zipcar over by the Gladstone Hotel.
3. Drive up to the Toronto Musicians' Association office, a few minutes north of downtown. Find a parking spot. Tear up your cheque for $225 when they tell you the student rate is only $100. Smile.
4. Drive back into town to the Canadian Opera Company office. Sign a contract, pick up music and paperwork for Canadian Immigration.
5. Drive to Niagara Falls. Speak slowly and clearly to the US Customs agent. She hates her job, and if you mumble, she'll make you open your trunk, like the guy in front of you.
6. Go to Niagara Falls State Park. Take your picture with the statue of Nicola Tesla (10 pts. bonus if you rub his shoe.) Admire the frozen mist that builds up on the cliffs. It looks like a glacier, or sand dunes.
7. Drive north. Be amazed at how easy it is to get a work permit, and how nice the guy at Immigration is.
8. Bonus points if you can find a Niagara region winery that's open at 6 o'clock on a weekday in the off-season. You drove all that way, after all.
9. Park the car. Walk home. Order a pizza, and put some fingerings in your part. Rehearsals start tomorrow.