Blogs from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 11

Getting packed up for our summer vacation to Vancouver, B.C. Canada. It's our first time to this city, so it's very exciting for us. It's a 3.2 hr., direct plane ride from Phoenix to YVR (the big airport), so that's not too bad. It was 109 here today in Tucson, so Vancouver should be a nice change of pace with regard to weather! Their high was 70 today!!! It's coincidentally going to be Canada Day while we are visiting, the 150th celebration of the countries existence. So it should be a really interesting visit. We haven't done a ton of planning. We'll be there one week, and we just want to relax and enjoy a new place, a vibrant city. Tonite we r packing. I have checked in with Air Canada, via cell phone. Paperless tickets. ... read more

Bonjour à tous, Pourquoi, Vancouver (ter) car c'est mon troisième passage dans cette ville. Un mot sur Whistler, que j'ai quitté de matin. C'est le plus grand domaine skiable d'Amérique. Les pentes exploitables, pour le ski, seraient supérieures à celles d'Europe, de part les quantités de neige qui y tombent chaque hiver. Vancouver, à obtenu les Jeux Olympiques en 1998, et toutes les épreuves alpines ce sont déroulées à Whistler. Le sommet le plus haut Blackcomb Peak est à 2440m. La population habituelle avoisine les 10 000 habitants. En ce moment avec un super beau temps, ce doit être multiplié par un gros coefficient. La famille Royale d'Angleterre y passe tous ses Noel. J'ai trouvé cette station de ski bien différente de celles que je connais en France. Beaucoup moins béton, pas de grands immeubles, l'ensemble ... read more

As I am such a small baby, I don't really know where I have been or where I am going. I know I have come off a thing called a yacht and I know it bounced around on the sea, but apparently I slept. Lucky me. When we got to somewhere called Toronto in a country called Canada, it was very late and the place where planes go called an airport, was nearly empty except for us.. This is where we said goodby to mamie. I am not quite sure who she is but she is with me a lot and sometimes looks after me. She must have something to do with mummy and daddy. Mummy and daddy thought she was quite funny because she kept having something called accident( s). First she went into a ... read more

This trip to Canada was completely on a whim. After some… Rather unfortunate events, I found myself needing to just... Go. Post military life was getting to me and school wasn't enough. So I just... went. I didn’t think about roaming charges and I had no idea where I was going to sleep. “I’ll just pull over to the next gas station.” I thought to myself. I pulled up to an Esso station where my intent was to buy a map. Instead, when I walked into the station, where my eyes enlarged at site of Kinder eggs. After carefully selecting a few awesome goodies, I almost forgot about my map halfway through the purchase. Laughing at my situation, the clerk asked where I was heading. I told him I had no idea, that I’d grabbed clothes ... read more

We had to hang some of the clothes that we’d washed the day before overnight to get them completely dry. By morning they were dry and we finished packing before going down for breakfast. We checked at the front desk to confirm that checkout was at noon; and, this time Sharon had remembered correctly. We hung out in the room until about 10:00AM. I thought that I had left Sharon plenty of room with Sudoku; because, my score was only 75% (with us, it’s usually tough to win with less than 90%, although, you never know). She managed to score in the sixties (although, she may edit this and assert that it was the high sixties). Needless to say, today was starting out pretty good for me. We really had planned to stay another hour in ... read more