We made the long journey over from Rossland on the 25th of March and have been at the best western hotel in English bay since!
What an incredible city this is! Mountains, blue sky, sea and huge lovely buildings.
It is such a contrast here to being in the quiet little town of Rossland, where you can walk down Columbia avenue for 2 minutes and have seen almost the whole town.
On the first night we arrived, we were soo tired and got up to the hotel about 10.30p.m, i popped down the road to a shop and got us some water, food and toothpaste. We had showers and then spent our first night in a bed in three months! It was such a good night sleep even with the massive pillows.
In the morning we had a walk to the end of a street and got 2 tea's from starbucks and then with our earl grey in hand we took a walk around English bay.
After seeing ducks, birds and a racoon! We decided that no trip to Vancouver could be complete without a trip to the equarium. Like to little excited kids we went in and had our wrists stamped. It was incredible really. There were all sorts of animals, not just sea life.. And they had a tiny little monkey!
My favourte make was the Dolphin and Jess chose the sea horse. It is a useless looking thing, with propellers on its head!
We spent in total about 3 hours there and then had a walk around the downtown area.
We then had a search around for potential jobs and places to stop. The cheapest being renting a room in a poor looking hotel and for a month they wanted 1600 dollars!! Thats more than double what we were paying in Rossland.
And with our 500 dollars it wasnt looking good.
In the evening we went out to a Korean restaurant called Ap Gu Jung, it was absaloutely packed. Most of the people there were Korean students, so the food must have been rather good.
It was such a nice meal, though i chose a dish called 'pork on fire' (the spiciest meal possible)
My bravery/stupidity was only encouraged when the waitress said it was quite spicey and i might be better choosing another. No backing out
now!
When the food came the waitress also brought us a few sample dishes we might like which was really nice of her.
With my mouth burning and my nose and eyes streaming, i finished my meal!
Though Jess's sensible choice was a bit nicer.
On the way home i could actually feel my stomach burning!
The next day we had some breakfast, looked at some very expensive century 21 apartments then decided with the lovely weather to hire two 'Cruiser' bikes from across the road at English bay bike rentals. What a good idea this was. Jess had a green one with a basket and i had a snazzy blue one.
We rode them around the 11.5 km circuit of Stanley park stopping off a few times for rests and photos.
Vancouver is a lovely city, everyone rides bikes or roller blades! And you have propper roads for bikes and then a seperate one for skates. It was soo beautiful riding right next to the sea with the huge snow capped mountains in the background and all the flowers and trees around us. It really did feel like summer.
It was a brilliant day and it was about 5 p.m by the time we took the bikes back. We had a little rest in the hotel room and then went out for a walk. We walked for about half an hour to where the sea planes take off to go to Vancouver Island and also saw the Olympic beacon. Its a lovely quiet dock area with hundreds of massive yachts and a brilliant view across the water to Grouse mountain resort. We ended up walking deeper and deeper into the city until we became a little lost. We thought about asking directions from some of the very nice chaps who walk around together holding hands. (I think it must be some kind of 'buddy' initiative to stop them getting as lost as us)
Eventually after an hour or so finding our way onto the right street.
We were getting a bit hungry by this time and ended up outside the Korean restaurant from the night before and with them having hockey live on tv we decided what the hell lets do it again. The waitress seemed very pleased to see us. This time we were upstairs, it was even more packed than last time!
Now, today! We got up, looked on the internet to try and sort out some things for living here, with little success then went out for another adventure. We had some lunch at our new favourite super market which only does all organic local food. Very nice to! Its a little cooler today and we had a few showers. But we didnt let this dampen our spirits.
We have had a lovely day wandering around, going to cafes and looking in shops for advertisements. It dosnt seem that out meager allowance of money will be enough here. But we shall see.
Each day our money situation worsens.
Bye Bye from Danny and Jess very much in love with our new city
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