Hello from Vancouver, Brittish Colonbia, Canada. Yes after more than a year in planning we have finally arrived in Vancouver. After an arduous 17 hour flight, including a fleeting stop in Honolulu for fingerpriting and photographing (over the top? yes since we only walked off the plane and straight back on) we touched down at YVR (the best airport of the trip so far - more like a museum with waterfalls and totems poles and displays etc) and were greeted with a typical Invercargill day (dull, drizzly abd 7 degrees). Our first reaction to what we had arrived in was one of surprise. It was 8am on a Sunday morning, nothing was open and the only people about were the homeless and off their face drug addicts. As we were basically sleeping on our feet we
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