Ramada Inn Vancouver Airport Richmond

... into wine, jokes, taking funny pictures and the world. Could have sat there for much longer, but we had a date for dinner, with a SEAPLANE!!!!! Down the mountain in the cable, a drive through downtown to Coal Harbour. We parked the car and walked over to check in and had coffee in the sun while waiting until our own private "Beaver" plane was ready for us. How terribly exiciting is this! My Dad would have loved this. Coming and going of ...

... much anyway). Bring lots of small bills (you'll loose it all on the slots but it can be fun). The piano bar in the NY NY well worth it! Have a good time! I don't know if I will be back anytime soon but it was fun while it lasted. I would probably pay the bigger bucks and stay at the Bellagio (it's beautiful and classy) if I did go back. It's nice to be home but why does it have to rain?

... then different. Our struggles are the same (though most are harder than the ones we face here in Canada) and our hopes and desires are indistinguishable. Pause; reach out past your own cries of "me first and last"; see your siblings as God sees them and you are one big step closer to the "you ...

Tuesday 19th We didn't have a very good night's sleep as the road was quite noisy. We left early and drove down the road to Denny's as we had decided to go out for breakfast. We stuffed ourselves full of pancakes, maple syrup, sausages, bacon, bread, bottomless coffee and juice and then rolled out of the restaurant like big fat balloons! We drove off and ...

... once we arrived, out and about walking the streets. For the first 30 mins it was wonderful. The city itself was very nice and alot like Melbourne. Then out of nowhere we turned one corner and everything changed. We suddenly found ourselves in the middle of the ghetto. And I'm not talking 10 or 12 homeless people, I'm talking 100 or 200 people! So we tried to act cool, cos of course we are ...

... kindly bought us tickets for as a farewell present for him. It was informative if not the most visually exciting experience. It has also become a bird sanctuary, mainly for gulls. Apparently its not unusual for inquisitive people to be attacked by the birds in Gullcatraz and many areas were closed off as it was their nesting season. Personally, I hate seagulls and wish I had taken a crossbow. We spent another of our days here cycling over the Golden Gate Bridge and the ...

... he was asking a realistic price for it. The only downfall was its age - 1988. We were now reaching the confusion stage of purchasing something like this - what should we do? What were we prepared to compromise, what did we need, what would suit us best? We headed back to the Hotel for dinner and a big discussion. On the way back we stopped and watched a school aged game of Baseball and we discovered an Ice ...

... in the UK. That evening, we went round to the flat of another friend, Dan, to watch the ice hockey, which is more of a religion than a sport in Canada. Afterwards, we went back to Bob and Katelin's for shrimp Thai green curry and to share the raspberry wine which Robin had given us. Mmmmm. Later, we went out to a bar for a few beers, conversation and ostensibly some live music, although that ended for the evening shortly after we went through the door. Still, the beer and ...

... no tracks! After a while you get used to this and it suddenly seems like a better approach. For one thing: no ripping up the road every summer to fix the tracks. That and the ability to 'transform' from tracked to trackless travel, giving you more flexibility. Still, there is something unsettling about suddenly noticing a bus rolling silently along, powered by overhead electricity cables, rather than lurching and gurgling along as is the usual mode for buses. On the way up to ...