Today has been the best day, weather wise - so beautiful and warm! We walked to Waterfront station to get the skytrain to 22nd Street, then a taxi to the auto sales we bought our car from. We sorted the paperwork and were handed the keys to our lovely Ford Escape! We're very pleased with it - it drives well. We stopped by at a nearby Walmart to buy a satnav to take us home - so we are now equipped for our road trip to Jasper on 28th! We got home around 4pm, qu...

Today has been a chilled out day. The sun was out to greet us but then the rain came - and now the sun is out again! Had quite a slow start to the morning, got to skype with Mum and Clint which was good! Then we headed to Downtown, where we got to see the last batch of people running/walking the 10k Sun Run. It was the 29th annual run today, and the majority of people wore yellow and blue to show their support for Boston. After watching the run for a bit, we had...

So today was quite productive - we found a car! (the one in the blog picture) Hurray, the hunt is now over. It's a 2003 Ford Escape XLS 4x4. It's got average mileage, good service history and although it was over our price range, Jacob managed to haggle it down a bit more.. We have only agreed over the phone that we want to buy it after looking at it today, so we'll go and pick it up on Monday. Which means we need to sort out insurance etc tomorrow or before we g...

This blog is for 19th (Friday).. There isn't much exciting news to update you on today... We went to Burnaby, outside of Downtown to look at a Mazda MPV that looked promising.. We liked the car, it had good mileage and was in good condition, despite having marks where it had been broken into under the front door handles. Jacob took it for a test drive and it drove well but we decided not to go for it as the dealer seemed a bit shady.. instantly dropping the price...

Evening :) Today has been yet another busy day! A rainy one at that too.. Vancouver still manages to look amazing whether rain or sunshine. We got up at 6am today and set off to Granville to pick up some documents that Jacob had left at the bank there. Then we had a long walk to catch the skytrain to Port Moody which was where we planned on looking at cars.. on the way we saw an IHOP (International House of Pancakes) so we thought we'd stop by to have some bru...