The Electra Suites Vancouver

... not so much that we would be too hungover for our flight. We ate so much and it was so good that we ordered another round of California and spicy tuna rolls to go.

The following morning we packed up our things, said goodbye to Chris and took a taxi to the airport for our nine hour flight to London, boo. We were sad to be leaving, it was the end of our amazing, mammoth trip but we were also excited about seeing some old faces again.

... aren’t lying. Visa really is accepted more places worldwide.) We decided to eat at Tony’s Seafood, and what a fine choice that turned out to be. Elyssa and Jason loved the clam chowder, I had the halibut sandwich, and Matthew went with an Oyster po’ boy. Having quenched our thunder, we wandered around the Market, stopping in a toy store to buy some playing cards for the train ride back (and grabbing some band-aids from the clerk for ...

... mit Lea, Lisa und Markus verbracht. Wir haben mal wieder sehr gutes Essen zusammen gekocht und Party gemacht!

Am Freitag hatte ein Mitbewohner von Markus seinen Geburtstag gefeiert, deshalb san ma weggegangen. Mitten in Vancouver haben wir dann eine Limo an einer Ampel stehen gesehen. Zack Daumen raus und hitchhiken! Und ...

... out to a DVD place in Burnaby and brought home a bunch for us to watch. Our entertainment choices had been a bit slim, as our slingbox hasn't been working right so we're not getting all our favorite shows from back home.

For our "DVD viewing night" I prepared seared yellow fin tuna steaks, stir-fried veggies, salad and our ...

... transformed on to the set of 'resident evil'. these zombies seemed friendly though! david, who emma will talk more of, was a pleasure to meet and we enjoyed his company. the other highlight was climbing 'grouse mountain'. i felt bad leaving em to hike on her own up the mountain which had several gradients of 45 degrees, but it was easier for us both to make our separate attempts. at last at the top we find a grizzly bear, i had to get emma to throw an ...

... of them were booked out. We eventually got a room in a Hotel on Collins Street (i think). Well, every poor unfortunate homeless person in Canada must hang out in the neighbourhood. They were there in their droves. In the five months we've been travelling, we've never seen anything like it. We were dropped at the door of the Hotel by the Taxi and went straight to bed. The next ...

... was and how quickly time has gone. Well my second from last day in Vancouver and i saved the best till last, the Vancouver Aquarium. Today it was raining, raining heavily, raining like a giant super dog had just had a bath and was shaking itself dry. Yet this was the day i had decided to visit the aquarium and that meant walking all the way there to Stanley Park. Now i have my anorak that mum made sure i packed, but the real problem was my trainers. I had planned to buy ...

... and what was even more amazing was the big discounts i got from having contacts...... it's true it's not what you know..... it's who you know. A brief stop it may have been.... but long enough to get a taste of life at whistler and a love for the ski hill. Back down the mountain Saturday afternoon saw cupcakes...... perhaps the sole reason for my brief visit back west..... cupcakes on denman.... ummmmmm!!! Sunday morning saw the ...

... for a walk over to Chinatown, deciding that lunch would be at Foo's Ho Ho. I wanted to try the salty fish, but was cautioned against it by our server, who informed us that "usually only Orientals eat it." Apparently it's a very smelly dish, and if you don't start out eating it from an early age, it's hard to acquire a taste for it later in life. I was still willing, but since I ...

... just looking around. We decided that we were going to eat dinner at the hotel so we had our dinner at the buffet that they have. We then went out for an exploration, and didn't find any thing opened that late at name, so we came back to our hotel, and went for a couple of drinks at the bar that they had, and then we went and watched some of the swimmers in the pool that they have, and then we went to sleep, because the next day would bring on another huge adventure.