Day 15 started kinda rushed, we got up, had showers, had a dinner plate sized pancakes and jumped on the trolly out to 'old town' San Diego to catch the bus to Sea World. Today we had our swimming with the dolphins at 10:45am. We were in a group of 6 and we got to hug n kiss n play with the dolphins....sooo cool and got some cool pix with them too! (mum n dad, i am sending back the CD with Karen that have them on it, she is gonna give it to Matt any time after Aug 3 as [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 27°C Today started around 8:30am. We got up found a shower easy enuf then came to the common kitchen to make our pancakes. Karen (happy ian?) decided against it, there batter was made up, all we had to do was put it on the hot plate and watch it cook. I made mine just smaller than a dinner plate and put maple syrup on it....mmmmm (some of the yanks were putting peanut butter on them...ewwwww!! After this we went for a walk all around the harbour, gathered a few more blisters before making our way to the meeting point for [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 28°C Day 13 was earlyyyyy... got up at 5:45 as we had to pack up and make our way to the BART (train station) to catch the train to the airport for our flight to San Diego. The flight was only about an hr and 15mins so nice n quick. We arrived in San Diego to 28° and sunny (yay, finally!!) We made our way to our hostel in a cab ($15). Love the hostel, its very friendly, very homey. Every wall is a different colour which sounds kinda garish but is actually quite happy n works for the place. [View Full Entry]

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Temp:65°F - 18°C - Sunny Got up, had our free brekkie and ventured down to mission st/market st to Westfield San Francisco. Unfortunately we got there half an hour before the shops opened (FYI anyone coming here, shops on a Sunday don't open til 11am!) We found a fantastic shop called Old Navy (its part of the Gap/Banana Republic company) cheap clothes but good quality. Bought a few bits n bobs, then found a few more goodies, Forever 21 (3 levels), H&M (2 levels), DSW, Hollister and even ventured into Bloomingdales. San Francisco has amazing shopping! (if only i had some [View Full Entry]

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Temp:65°F - 18°C - Cloudy in the morning. Mostly Sunny inl the arvo. Day 10 started out earlyish then we went and had our free brekkie in our hostel (that until today we didn't know that we got!) We met two guys from Aus. Ben from Perth and another guy from Carlton so we compared notes with them on touristy stuff (tho they didn't really have much of an idea). We left the hostel and headed for 18th street to catch the 33 bus out to Golden Gate Park to the Japanese Gardens. We strolled through the conservatory of Flowers before [View Full Entry]

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Temp:65°F - Partly cloudy. Mostly Sunny. Today we started off a lil later, deserved a lil sleep in coz of yesterdays early get up. We eft the hostel about 11am and checked out some of the local shops then jumped on the bus to broadway where we walked u to Steiner St to the house the was used in Mrs Doubtfire. After this we walked for ages to Lombard St (the crookedest street) geeeeezzzzz, got my excercise for the day, we the walked back down to the piers n checked 0ut some more shops and had some fish n chips at [View Full Entry]

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Temp:65°F - 18°C - Sunny, cold breeze Day 9 was an earlyish one with our flight to San Francisco! We got to our hostel (which is pretty nice and we have our own ensuite (oh la la). Finally got thru to the family on Skype (sorry for the early wake up call!). We have free wireless here for the next 3 days sooo woo! i can catch up with people more! We took ourselves on a bus which stops right outside our hostel down to the piers. Had a look at some souvenir shops and The Candy Barrel (which sells the [View Full Entry]

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Day 8 - July 8, 2009 Temp: 64.4°F - 18°C Today started early as we had to catch a bus from Vancouver to Seattle. It was raining (again) when we left but cleared a lil by the time we reached Seattle (ironic as this is supposed to be the 'Rainy City'. We left out suitcases in storage at the train station then headed off on foot to find the Pike Market Place. This place was cool. Lots of bits n bobs but i restrained myself to buying some postcards and stamps. We ten headed off in search of the Space Needle. [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 59°F - 15°C - raining!! Today was a late start. Had the best night sleep thanks to my ear plugs which cut out all the lovely sirens Karen had all night! Got up and met Soph around 11. We went out to the Chinese Gardens and BC stadium then headed back to meet up with her friend Jess before we all headed out to Stanley Park to the Aquarium. We saved ourselves about $30 to get in as another of her friends works there! we saw the baby beluga whale that was born 4 wks ago and the turtles and [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 59°F - 15°C (big difference to Vegas!) Hello from Canada!! Soooo, it was an interesting start to our Canada visit. Firstly the taxi drivers here, no good! Secondly, we arrived at our Hostel last night at about 11:30pm only be told "oh really, i don't have a booking for you". Thankfully, id printed out the email so the guy gave us someone elses room who hadn't yet arrived and said he'd sort that out when it came to it. Arghhhhh. Anyone coming to Vancouver, DON'T STAY HERE!!! Look, ive done hostel before and i didn't expect much but we don't [View Full Entry]

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