ocean island back packers inn

righto chaps and chapesses im currently on the island in beautiful victoria i swear it even smells good out here im in the ocean island backpackers inn using their internet 3 dollars for an hour thats a bit of a bargain
also im thinking im going to ask them if they've got any jobs going so watch this space....
ive had a good few days spent a lot of time walking round or reading drinking coffee its a great way of seeing the place
so wednesday i said by to sas's amazing house and headed out to north van to go stay with aunty for a night
had no problems with the buses but may have got a little lost trying to find her house and having the heavy bag and the hot sun
eventually found the house and spare key so chilled for a lil before walking the 30 odd blocks down to lonsdale quay where coffee cinamon buns and sun were all enjoyed before heading back up the 30 blocks playing with my camera being all arty farty called in at a telus store (they be like 02 back in uk) and finding out how many arms and legs a cell phone will cost me
that evening me and aunty walked along the sea wall on north van and it was a beautiful evening
thurs it chucked it down and i went to lyn valley canyon (which is a park with a cool ol suspension bridge that you can get a good sway on ) i got soaked through so walked back to the mall and invaded a starbucks and got warm slightly dry and very caffined up :)
that eve i headed out to vancouver to go stay with cuz gin in downtown
her apartment is great its just off a main street so is quieter but still close to everything and i had a good cup of tetleys tea there made me very happy ive been really missing the tea
friday got woken up by ginnies fricking blender going grrr but to be fair she made a great smoothie :)
then got up went to a bookshop browsed a little and then decided to head out to gm place (its where the ice hockey finals were played and where the vancouver cannucks normally play ) its like over the other side of downtown so it was a good old walk but on route i sorted out my cell phone so that was a real good thing
then we headed out to victoria
the ferry ride is realll pretty but me and gin had these giant burgers so had like food babys so we just kinda napped a little
then we got out to cuzs james apartment and headed to the pub its only like a minute from jameses so thats pretty darn cool
saturday we went and hung out with gins friend matt his parents have bought an uber house about 35 mins out from victoria its got like 3 acres of land with it
saturday night we hung with gins friend zoe who is fricking awesome
we went to a concert and it was so cool the 3 bands all swapped in and out and different members of each band played with other bands and they all played like every instrument
one guy looked really like ned from school it was uncanny
so yeh thats an update of stuff
catch u later
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pubs and subs

ok so more canadian stuff

day 2 was saturday

we had a lazzzy old day got up around 11ish.......

sas's dad bill had cooked amazing chocloate chip and raspberry panacakes there were just omg reallly incredible bills a great cook

then we just hung out and chatted and stuff till like 4 ish when sas eventually got dressed and we went over to langley thats millles away and met our friend dan

sas then chipped it off for a family dinner and me and him went off to a pub and had dinner a few beers and watched some hockey result

only thing was vancouver lost :(

we ended up getting back to west van at like 1 in the morning we were both dead

sunday we had a bit of a rush as sas had her vollyball game ( i keep calling it netball same thing really ) i went and hung out with her bf david and man he's a great man we got on like a house on fire

we went for a wander around vancouver n it started to rain so we decided it was time for coffee

we went to tim hortons and my dear that coffee sucks asss like ummmmm something that sucks a bum regularly

like i didnt realise that when they ask if you want cream they actually mean milk so i ended up with black coffee that i was filtering with my teeth ............

the other reason we went to tim's is atm there running a competition thing were if you roll up the edge of your cup you can win stuff and david wants to win a car lol

but guess whatt .......

thats right we both didnt win a thing

then we met up with sas who had won the game and we walked her to her sororosroororoity house as she had a thing on that night

me and david deciding we had the munchies went for dinner

and beers

and talked about hockey rugby football and stuff and it was cool

but canadian beer hasnt got a patch on doombar or the moose or 6x unfortunatly

then there was this anchor splash thing

which was a comedy syncro swimming thing that the sororitys and fraternitys do

sas's won

but this one guy looked like a midget from the like the angle of the light and the water and it was amazing lol

but on the donwside me and david were both very deflated by the proportion of shania twain's song man i feel like a woman we both knew ............

but on the plus side canada has been introduced to smits great dance moves of slippery ice heavy shopping blowing the leaves and starting the chainsaw along with the standard dad dancing at a wedding and victor travolta's point and shake the leg

on monday sas had uni so once at ubc (universtiy of british columbia) i decided to go and explore :D

i ended up in downtown van and it was lush and sunny and so i broke out the book and the ipod and just sat and chilled for a few hours

then i up my sticks and went for a wander and took pictures of the amazing bay at english bay and then in stanley park

got the munchies then as i do so walked across on the granville st bridge and got subway (wasnt as good as uk subway but then again the scottish bloke wasnt there) and walked around a bit while seagulls were eyeing up my sub the lil bastards

then i walked back on the burrerd bridge (well i think it was) it was a major trek lol

i then found hornby street so took a pic i thaught the guys back in wales (aka the train lovers) would like it

and then i found thurlow st but my cam had died so sorry dave i didnt get a pic but i will on friday i promise

i then made friends with some mexicans and the crazy lady who was a lil scary

then i headed to second beach in stanley park (its were we lost erica when she was like 3 or so ) and then it was time to head home which was good as i was hungry and my feet hurt

but oh yeh i had starbucks as well ooohhh and went and took pics of the bronze guys that are all laughing annnnnd erica they have eagles this year i kinda wish it was bears :S

neway peace out a town

x

hellllllloooo canada

so yeh im in canada yay

its been a pretty interesting couple of days

it started with the plane

the guy i was sat next to had spent a weeek in whitley aka my village aka 2 mins from my house crazy or what

then when the plane landed after getting no sleep and watching the same episode of top gear about 5 times (in flight entertainment wasnt great :( )

i checked the ol ipod (went online with it) and found out that any one of 3 people could be picking me up but i didnt know who or have a phone hmmm problem i think not

i purchased a fone card and rang round to my friend dan who was like theo whhhhaaaaat u dont know whose picking u up man gd luck

eventually i got thru to sas's sister lyndsy who ive never met or seen lol

so the convo goes hey is this lyndsy oh ok sweet its theo u know ur sisters english friend whose picking me up oh u are great what do u look like ohhhh okkkk im talll with red hair and a huge bag lol

so eventually find lydnsey (well she finds me lol) and we go to sas's dads house which has got killlller views of the ocean and mountains

the next day me and sas get up at like half 9 rush around go into vancouver as sas has a lecture i kinda joined her for it and god it was dulllllll

then i had my first tim hortons (ex hocky player ) experience its like a coffee place that serves donuts and chilli lol kinda wierd but good

then we went to stanley park and had a walk around the sea wall

we saw a seagull eating a starfish not one arm at a time but all in one the fat sod

we then carried on walking then we only had like 30 mins on our parking time left so thaught we would take a short cut through the park

bad idea we musta walked every trail in that park we were hella lost guys

we even found some lake that we didnt know was there lol

any ways gotta dash laters

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