Well we spoiled ourselves and went to the zoo in Calgary. We choose Sunday for the buffet brunch that they put on. And boy did we make a good choice it was the best meal we have had since we left home. It even had a chocolate fountain which you can dip the fresh strawberries in. However at minus three for the day and snowing it was a freezing day to be at the zoo. The Australian area was really weird. They had kangaroos in a snow filled enclosure and cane toads in their own huge really nice enclosure. [View Full Entry]

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Well we ended up in the wild wild west. We arrived in Brooks in Southern Alberta, the prairies. We lived in a little house filled with people. There was one bathroom for the nine of us. So pretty crazy to say the least. [View Full Entry]

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Snowboarding was by far the best thing that we’ve done since we arrived, well second best compared to shooting the guns. Surprisingly, I didn’t take that long before I picked it up and could go down the hills at a steady pace, thanks to jo and her lessons. I even had a go at doing a jump (still sore) I’ve decided to buy a snowboard as soon as I can so I can show my brother up when I get home hehe. A trip to New Zealand is definitely on the cards when we get home. [View Full Entry]

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We have seen some hell cool cars since we’ve been here some of the trucks on the road is unbelievable they put 8 inch lift kits on the suspension and they’re still road legal you can see the ford truck beside a normal 4wd. Jo took my picture with this nice little street rod in Vancouver, (I want one) [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Vancouver late at night. It was a really nice city basically based on an island. We spent our time walking around, shopping and general exploring. [View Full Entry]

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For George’s birthday we ended up driving two hours, all the way over the other side of the island to take a plane trip over the volcanos. The pamphlet showed the plane flying over the crater with erupting lava flying in the air just missing the plane, similar to the picture below. However our flight wasn’t exactly like that. Firstly, we couldn’t find the place were the plane left from. We were stupidly looking at the airport, when we rang up we were informed that we were actually looking for a garage out the back of the airport. The pilot [View Full Entry]

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On our second day on the big island we went for another big drive. We went to the black sand beach, which was pretty surreal. We then headed to the Volcano national park. Driving around was pretty cool, there was steam rising from the ground and lava flows everywhere. We eventually made our way to the active area. Under the old lava flows there are lava tunnels which the molten rock flows along till it meets the ocean. We arrived just at sunset which was perfect as it is hard to see the red glow during the day. After the [View Full Entry]

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On the Big Island we hired a car and explored with heaps of driving. The island was so different to Oa’hu. It was cool, grassy with heaps of cattle ranchers. We went through small towns and eventually came to a lookout over Waipio Valley which came complete with eucalyptus trees. [View Full Entry]

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We checked out the beach at Waikiki. One of the locals informed us that the beach was so dirty because the sewerage was pumped straight out into it. The beach was alright, no waves, a bit of rubbish but absolutely littered with people. There were Japanese doing there exercisers before entering the water, there were plastic American prancing around in their miniature bathers with their leather like skin, there were the larger American who struggled to fit into their bathers and offcourse there was heaps of people attempting to surf, learning to surf or surfing on the pathetic waves. As [View Full Entry]

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We continued on the war flavour and went to the war museum, where George went crazy with the camera. [View Full Entry]

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