kamloops

Kamloops.

We farewelled Vancouver this am. Sorry not to have longer here, A bustling city full of all cultures, lots of young people,girls with short shorts and tattoos.! Beaches full of people enjoying the water. The fireworks last night was spectaular, 300,000 attended watching from every view point and on the beaches.

We made our way back to the airport this am to pick up the rental car. Mild panic when our GPS didnt work for the first ¼ hr!! eventually got going and away we went, weaving our way NE through the Rockies. The first bit beautiful, but then it was very like central otago except no schist. Very hot here, so had a lovely swim and salad for dinner.

Vanvouver

Here we are in Vancouver, beautiful city with fantastic weather, Im sitting on the balcony, with just knickers and a sarong.!!!

We had a good flight here, 13hrs, but went very quickly, watched the films “the girl with the dragon tattoo” and Top twins” so didn’t even open my book. Slept quite well, then breakfast and we were here!! Caught the Canada train from the airport, and then had about 1/2hr walk to our hotel.

Showered and then went walking for about 3 hrs. Just about to find a place to eat, and who do we spot in a café but Ken and Jill Small, enroute to Hawaii!! Vern turned up at their table, asked if they would mind if we shared the table.!!

yesterday we went to Grouse Mountain, figured out the sea bus, and bus to get there. Great day, saw Lumberjacks, Grisly bears, birds of prey, ride on the chair lift. hard to believe it’s a ski resort in winter.

Today we hired bikes for about 6 hrs, not biking all that time!!!Prawns and beer for lunch overlooking a huge marina!!. Lovely cycle trail all round Stanley park and the city.

tomorrow night a huge fireworks display, apparently about 100,000 attend!! Look for us in the crowd!!

2010 travel

We are about to set off on another adventure to visit family and have our first home swap experience in Canada, and in September join a Grassroots tour of Turkey.

Mid winter in NZ and in a week we will be enjoying summer in the Northern Hemisphere. We fly from Auckland to Vancouver direct

This past week have had the pleasure of our grandaughters Ella and Laura with us. We had 2 days showing them some of special sights of Wellington, then home on the ferry, a couple of days in Blenheim and now we are in Kaikoura to hand them over to their parents and back to school on Monday.

4 days to pack up and leave the house and garden for almost 3 months!! We have Mark renting our flat, he has started a new job in Blenheim,so is convenient for him and great for us to have someone in our house.

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