Regarding the credit card payment SNAFU- apparently, their automated system is smart enough that, when you enter your credit card number, it checks your account for certain types of problems. If you are “payment overdue”, it redirects you to that group. Unfortunately, it doesn’t direct you to their 7×24 hour desk: to get to them, you have to hit “0” (zero) and go through their operator. I learned this during a nice chat with one of their customer service reps today. She told me she had complained several times regarding the problem with the automated redirection, and hoped that this time it might get fixed.

I’ve since gone in person to a local CitiFinancial branch, which provided me with a number for CitiFinancial Retail Services. I then contacted CitiFinancial Retail, and they tell me that they will write a cheque to credit me what I paid… but can’t process that until October 12 (one month after the date I made the incorrect payment). Good fun all around, and a learning experience.

On PEI we stayed at the Stanhope Bay Resort, which was quite nice. It is about 15 minutes outside of Charlottetown,: we drove in to the city and had a nice evening of walking around there. I wouldn’t have minded a whole day in Charlottetown, but then I didn’t see any of the spitting, pickup driving cowboy yahoos: they must bring that out just for visiting Albertans 😉

I’m glad we took the trip: it is a part of the country I’ve wanted to see for a long time, and having been there I now know I want to see more.