I am so sorry for the slow upload of content!
Well, we are here! I've decided to structure this a little different and post every few days, mostly because I want more time to relax and enjoy the trip, my access to decent internet might be scarce in some areas as well.
I'll try to keep the content at a minimum and just mostly photos so I don't (hopefully) lose your attention! (My story telling is not the best either)
After a terrible 4 hours sleep we arrived at Adelaide Airport bright and early at 4 am, there really isn't a whole lot to report, we sat on the plane for just over 8 hours flying to Hong Kong. We had just under 2 hours in Hong Kong before our connecting flight to Vancouver, this beast was a 12 hour flight. UGGHHHH. It's no secret I normally love flying, aircraft, planes, flying in the clouds, how the earth looks from up high...this was not one of those times. We ended up spending almost 14 hours on the flight after they realised a pilot oxygen tank had to be replaced (after we boarded of course),which they managed to break a part of the plane while changing this so it ended up being 90 minutes just being cosy on tarmac before we even took off. Quite possibly my longest and draining flight I've ever done, all I can say was arriving in Vancouver was SO DAMN GOOD!!!
Flying into Vancouver was breath taking, all of the mountains and coast line just made me even more excited to get off the plane. After getting through customs we caught our ride into the city, this was my first time in any sort of proper American car, they do not mess around when it comes to space inside!
It was so weird leaving Wednesday morning, spending almost a full 24 hours in transit and it was a few hours into the afternoon that same day. Sleep became priority haha, so we snoozed for a few hours, got up and ventured to find some food then came and crashed out for a full 12 hours. We had a fantastic apartment with a great city view.
The time came for us to pick up our hire car...I was shitting myself, it was the first time driving on the opposite side of the road in the opposite side of the car....although I think Cara was stressing alot more than me...muahaha! It was fine, somewhat, I was packing it for the first while but it got easier, I still think it seems to make more sense on our side, even if I had not been driving on our side my whole life. We clearly weren't thinking because we went to get in our regular sides of the car...'oh there appears to be a steering wheel on my side' Cara said. oops!
Luckily it was only driving our beasty Yaris back to the hotel that day. That evening we walked down to the Vancouver waterfront, its definitely up there for one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to, as you'll see in the photos below! Sadly in some areas though, there are alot of homeless people around the city.
We had dinner on the harbour front and tried Poutine for the first time, for those who don't know what it is, its pretty much chips and gravy, but the gravy is sort of a more jelly consistency. They add cheese curd as well and we decided to add pulled pork to ours too. Its different, I'll give them that..... sort of one of the things you have to do when you go away to a different country.
I'll leave this post at that for now, there are more coming soon I promise!
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