Kamloops, Whistler & Vancouver Part 1

Hello Peeps,

Sorry it's been a few days since our last post but the internet connection at the first hotel in Vancuver was not very quick.

So we arrived in a place called Kamloops on Sunday to be fair we didnt see much of the place we got there at 3pm and left at 8am the next day all we saw was the hotel which was nice we decided to treat ourselves and have a meal in the hotel saw loads of people from our tour in the restraunt we had a fantastic meal food was lovely and also had a lovely bottle of wine.

Monday morning we did get alittle lay in left at 8am breakfast was at 7am heading towards Whistler which is a ski resort town it was lovely little town surrounded by mountains the only down side was the weather it rained really hard from the moment we got there and carried all night and still when we left the next day.

On the way to whislter we stopped off at a bakery and got some lunch and we all went for a pinic near whilster it was lovely sat by a river eatting lunch and the sun was shining lovely

The hotel in whistler was lovely we were lucky enough to get a suite on the third floor which was like a mini flat the bed was upstairs and we had a mini kitchenett and lounge area really was nice Lee got very excited at the thought he could cook a meal so we did we had spag bol was lovely.

the next day we headed to Vancuver which was only a couple of hours drive away we had a city tour and then got dropped off at a Granville Island which is part of Vancuver which had a big Market Hall we could walk around lots of Food stalls and gifts and well everything really we were dropped off and left for 2 hours the tour director said they would come back and pick us up after the 2 hours so it only took us about 45 mins to an hour to walk around the market hall and had a Beef Stew Pie mmmmm was lovely after that we were like what are we gonna do for another hour well we found the Granville Island Brewery !!! went and had a few beers!!! nice they did and taste section which meant you could get 3 differenet beers to try which were just under half a pint each which took us the next hour finished just in time to walk back to the point where the coach was picking us up !!

Fortunately we were able to check into our hotel early and we just spend the rest of the day chilling... Yesterday (Friday) we just had a look around the city.. kinda hard to know what to make of the place to be honest.. some really nice parts but lots of homeless people etc around so it all feels a bit seedy sometimes.. Last night we went for a nice meal at a local pub called Rosie's and a couple of drinks...

Fun and games at the hotel last night.. a group of people decided to bring a dog to the hotel and then pissoff for a night out and leave it in the room, cue lots of whining and barking.. You do question the common sense of some people, mind you they were yanks so maybe that explains it..

This morning we checked out of our hotel and into another one on Granville Street that we are staying in until we fly on Wednesday to Beijing...

Tomorrow we are planning to go to the aquarium in Stanley Park... Until next time...

Lots of Love
Lucy and Lee xx

Some Vancouver Pics

Some pics from Granville Island

The Totem Poles in Stanley Park

Whistler Pics

The kitchenette in Whistler.. the sink was that tiny we wound up doing the washing up in the bath!!!

Homecooked feast... Spag Bol, the red wine is only for decoration honestly!!!!

On route to Whistler

Some pics on route to Whistler

Pics on Route to Kamloops

Canadian Rockies

Hello everybody,

2 posts in 2 days, crikey.. well we have had a cracking day today in the Canadian Rockies...

Early start, wake up call at 5.25am, nice not!!!! we had brekky at 6.30 and then we left the hotel at 7.30am... We were heading for Columbia Ice Fields today with a scenic drive through the Rockies to get there.. the weather didn't look that great when we left and for the first hour or so it piddled down, but thankfully about 9ish it stopped...

First of all we stopped off for some pics and a coffee stop.. the scenery we could see from the coach was fab and reminded us a lot of certain parts of New Zealand, but couldnt get our heads around the fact there was so much snow everywhere there was so much snowfall over night our driver told us the winter has come early he has not seen it this early in the year before, it was amazing to see took your breath away. It made me (lucy) think it was christmas !!!! lol

From about 10am onwards the sun came out too yey!!!! We got to the ice fields about 11am.. we had to hang around for 30 mins or so and then we got on a bus up to the snow coaches which were going to take us up to the Glacier.... the snow coaches were cool they had massive trackor tyres so they could get through the snow and ice once there standing on the Glacier well to be honest words or the pictures can not tell the story it really was a amazing experience to be standing on loads and loads of ice with the sun shining it felt quite warm but then i did have a few layers of clothes on (lucy).

We had about 20 mins on the glacier, One of the guys on our tour threw a snowball at our tour director Barbara and it hit her smack bang on the top of the head OMG I nearly wet myself she then told him to lay down in the snow and he did and she throw one at his head !!! see pic below was really funny!!

Once back at the lodge we had lunch there back on the coach at 2pm to head to Lake Louise OMG it was stunning the colour amazes me bright blue clear water, There was a massive hotel over looking the lake we went inside to get a coffee whilst in the Q Lucy Popped to the ladies room on her return Lee is nearly at the front of the Q looking really pissed off and mad now people its not often you see Lee pissed odd and mad i walk over as quickly as i can as Lee is saying to the man behind him " thats ok mate i just got half your F**K*N* coffee down my jeans " once Lee had paid we stand there putting sugar and milk in coffee whilst Lee is telling Lucy very loudly that said man had dropped coffee down his F**K*** jeans which is responce Lucy says yes Lee i heard you the first time !!!!!!!! and to top it off the man was a german Lee thought that part was funny !!!!

Back on the bus heading back to Hotel on the way we stop suddenly not sure why but after a couple on secs we realaise the bus it froint has stopped because they saw a bear in the trees OMG OMG even when we were in USA in yellow stone national park we didnt see a wild bear but here in Canada we saw a Black Bear it was amazing we weren't aloud to get off the coach to take a pic we took some but you cant really see the bear in them so you will have to take our word for it that we saw one.

Off again tomorrow to a place called Kamloops we have cancelled our wake up call not way 5.30am again breakfast 6.30am leaving at 7.30 this is hard work this travelling thing !!!!! not long to go and we will be in China really looking forward to that...

And in 2 weeks we will have been married 3 years OMG where has that time gone !!!

Lots Of Love

Lucy & Lee xxxx

Lake Louise

Lucy by the lake

Few pics from Lake Louise the last place we stopped today

Columbia Icefields

Lucy with a mousse

One of the group at the icefield

Lee eating fresh snow.. lol

Couple of snaps of us on the Glacier

Us at the Glacier

There were a few tour groups at the top of the glacier

View from the bottom of the icefields

aaawwwww

On the way to Columbia Icefields

Some pics from a photo stop we had

Us at the first stop we had today

Some pics of the scenery, amazing!!!!

Outside the hotel first thing this morning.. it did not look good... weather wise