Blogs from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 164

Hey guys So, I've included some pretty boring pics of Whistler just so you can get an idea of where I'm living right now. Have I told you how fab it is here? I had a couple of days off work last week so being the spontanious and crazy person that I am, my house mate and myself decided to head to Seattle for the weekend. Bare in mind that we decided this on the friday evening!! So we jumped in my car and off we went (Via Vancouver to get a fried breakfast cooked lovingly by my good friend Richard), crossed the border with little effort and down highway 99 (well, actually we got onto route 5, god knows how, but ended up in Seattle anyway) and hit the city at full tilt! We arrived ... read more

Hi Everyone, We have finally become international travelers; we officially cleared customs this afternoon and are staying outside of Vancouver. The past couple of days have been filled with some of the most beautiful scenery of the trip. After leaving the Olympic Peninsula we went to Seattle for the day and saw the major sights of the city. We started off by strolling through Pike’s Place Marketplace where they have outdoor art, food, and souvenir vendors. There must have been something in the air that day because I didn’t actually buy anything, I must be developing frugal ways while on this trip, I don’t like it. I used to be such a souvenir sucker. After Pike’s market we visited Pioneer Square, which is supposed to be the historical district, but it didn’t quite work out like ... read more

http://www.travelblog.org/gmaps/map_1k4.html greetings fr the vancouver airport (YVR)!!! day 10 of my stay here in vancouver for a month-long law summer session at the University of British Columbia is spent at the airport desperately waiting to get home to my family. Vancouver is beautiful. It's so lush and green. I've noticed the Canadians really do speak w/ that "eh!" it's so cute. Anyway the first few days in Vancouver was bearable, but after feeling like I was about to have an anxiety attack yesterday (1june06) I booked a flight to go home to spend the weekend w/ my family. I've met lots of wonderful people from the program. About half are from my school (Southwestern) and a bunch others are from other places like Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto in Canada, GA, MI, Lolyola Law in Los Angeles, and ... read more

So as I said in my last entry Matt and I have both got jobs at a cruise company called Princess Cruises, we have now worked there for about 3 weeks and can only say good things about it. Saturday and mondays are days when ships come into port and we need to offload around 2500 ppl and load another 2500 so that's fun, both days are 10 hours days but we have also had a 15 and 14 hour day due to ships being late and the like. Everyone we work with are awesome witht he number one being of course Heidi. We both worked with Heidi at Cypress and she is the main reason we have these jobs now. So there are about 60-80 shore staff working for princess and of those 60-80 there ... read more

So far so good. Although we got to the airport a wee bit early (3:45 a.m.) the check-in counters didn’t open until close to 5:30. Luckily we were at the front of the line. But it was okay, Robert passed the time with the word puzzles my mom gave him (Robert says thank you very much mom, it’s been his favorite book the whole time!) and I read magazines and danced around (much to the chagrin of other not-so-excited passengers who weren’t so lucky to be flying first class or going to Japan). The Maple Leaf Lounge was fabulous. All you can eat bagels, muffins, fruit drinks, coffee, and yes even hard liquor. No, we did not imbibe at such an early hour, but after 6 bagels (they were small! Think Lender’s frozen baby bagel size), ... read more