We caught our airport shuttle to our International Flight to Canada (from the Domestic terminal - go figure?). Alaskan Airlines did the job and after an intense security scan including a very thorough explosive scan with a cabinet that puffs you with compressed air to get any traces of explosives. Tan got a fright when the jets of air hit her body!
We left the U.S. and A in our polar bear plane to Vancouver. The flight was really good but 2 hours and 12 minutes was classified as too short to give a meal. Dan gets a meal on a 48 minute flight from Kalgoorlie to Perth. Not to worry, Dan helped out a Dutch woman and her children when she couldn't turn off her new iPod. The hostie spotted us later on and gave us complimentary drinks for that little intervention. Noice. We flew along the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. This area is loaded with volcanoes and we all remember the Mount St Helens eruption from the early 80's. Mt Hood and Mt Rainier and the others were all small capped and sitting proud of the surrounding hills. Dan was quite wrapped to see them.
Oh Canada. The hills were snow capped as we flew into a sunny day at Vancouver. After a lengthy queue we got through customs and we were in. Hooray!!!
The taxi took us into town to the Urban Hideaway, a guesthouse in Downtown with two really nice cats. We were starving and ended up having a very late lunch of Vietnamese. Yum! There are so many varied places to eat in Vancouver and a distinct lack of McDonalds (this doesn't worry us as we only use Maccas as a last resort and that's only to go to the toilet!).
We ended up going down to Yaletown to catch up with the boyz. Brendo, Tan, Leo and I shared a beer on Leo's balcony (16 stories) up on a nice sunny day (with periods of rain). We made it down town with Lesley and Andrea for a tin and had a ball of a night. We walked home in the light rain after a few tins. Canadian beer is quite good but Dan needs to sample some more to find the best ones or so he keeps on saying.
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