Well here we are sat in LAX waiting for our connecting flight to Fiji. We have been up since 4am our time (midday where most of you are) Its just approaching lunchtime here and we don't fly until 11pm tonight.We had a pretty scary moment on the flight on the way from Vancouver the plane dropped in flight and turned about 60 degrees sending Mel flying in the toilet queue, it was a hair raising moment apparently caused by hitting the jetstream of the aircraft i...

Sorry Guys I am back today after a 2 day absence, I have the job of posting today as we have not done anything exciting so not much to tell. We have been so Rock and Roll today, we have been to the Post Office to send home a CD to the IT department, then we called for breakfast, before returning to the hostel to catch up with emails and flight times and also do our laundry and pack for our 5am start in the morning. We have a 7am flight from Vancouver to LA which...

Well after Ged's lovely compliment here I am again. We have spent today in Stanley Park which is huge (404 hectares) now I smile to myself writing that as I have no idea what a hectare is I thought it was a dog who had a house!!!! Anyway I digress, we walked around the rose garden which was beautiful as everything was just coming into bloom and the smell was wonderful. We wondered over to the totem poles and stopped off for a lovely lunch surrounded by beautifu...

Hi guys you've got me today as the ginger one is playing with his new toy!!! yes we have done a Harper and bought ourselves a laptop!!!! We have been struggling with the internet access for a while now and the laptops here are so much cheaper than home so we thought sod it we will just buy one. Ginger is just setting it all up now. Today has been filled with shopping we went to Granville Island market this morning and then we wandered around the shops as we n...

We had our first lie in for 3 weeks today till 8.50am then I got up so I did not miss the 9am deadline for the free breakfast!!!! Have had a truly tourist day today and visited Grouse Mountain. You need to take the cable car on an 8 minute ride to 4100ft, the visibility was poor and it was cold and snowy on the top but it was a great experience. We started our visit by watching the award winning Lumberjack show where they demonstrate traditional skills as a conte...