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VANCOUVER!

We have been in Vancouver for four days now and we are having an amazing time. We have been employing the strictest of budgets; we steal sweet treats from the included continental breakfast, to tide us over through morning tea, we’ve been drinking drip coffee (only $2 a cup!), we’ve been sniffing out all the cheap eats (haven’t yet paid over $10 for a meal!) and we haven’t even been drunk yet! That’s 3 nights of non-drunkeness! That is very rare, especially when the four of us are together! And I haven’t even bought clothes (except for a $25 leather jacket from an op shop but come on, how could I resist?).

We’ve been having a great time, just exploring the city, we had a great day on Tuesday, checking out Stanley Park, I think we walked almost 15kms. It was a great day though, and we walked home through historic Gastown and had a few local Granville Island beers (beers over here come in ‘sleeves’, they’re a bit bigger than a schooner and as cheap as $1.60 on special! Amazing!). Last night we went over to Granville Island to check out the night markets.. which were closed at 7pm.. night markets whateverrrr.. having said that, we were too busy having beer and YAM FRIES (they call sweet potato yam) and they were delicious. Better than normal fries. Wings are next on the agenda, and some maple syrup. On our first day here we had a Canadian Maple donut from Tim Horton’s (did you know it’s Justin Bieber’s favourite restaurant?) and it was pretty good but we haven’t had any real syrup yet. I have picked a few maple leaves though, to press and keep as bookmarks..Oh I’m such a Nana. My scarf is going well BTW.

OK well it’s beer time.
Missing Australia and, strangely, Vegemite, BUT I have YAM FRIES to see me through ohh yeahhhhh

Love, T and Z