Tuesday, January 30, 2007
21 January, 2007
We woke up early so that we could get a ride with Perry and his son Daniel up to Grouse Mountain- known as the ‘Peak of Vancouver’. It was a cold drizzly morning and they were wondering why they were actually going skiing in such weather? We were wondering why we were going up too? Well, by lunch time we were all really glad that we had made the trip. They had a wonderful morning skiing and we decided to ice-skate for the first time in 15 years. We were going round and around on the skating rink in the open air with music in the background and snow falling ever so gently on our noses. It was fabulous and stunning. It was freezing cold and our feet were almost falling off but we really had a good morning. Neither Rich nor I had ever been in falling snow before so it was a real experience and we had fun. We relaxed watching a DVD in the afternoon and Perry took us for some excellent coffee. We had dinner at a Thai restaurant and we met up with Michal and Neville who are also ex- South Africans now living in Vancouver. It was a lovely evening and the food was excellent. It really was so nice to be staying with friends in a warm comfortable home and having dinner with friends as opposed to a hostel and hanging around walking the streets of downtown in miserable weather (Thanks guys – we really appreciate it). We still haven’t really seen Vancouver because it has been too gloomy! They tried to drive us to the beach park and some view points but we couldn’t see through the dark-grey clouds hanging out being nasty.
We woke up early so that we could get a ride with Perry and his son Daniel up to Grouse Mountain- known as the ‘Peak of Vancouver’. It was a cold drizzly morning and they were wondering why they were actually going skiing in such weather? We were wondering why we were going up too? Well, by lunch time we were all really glad that we had made the trip. They had a wonderful morning skiing and we decided to ice-skate for the first time in 15 years. We were going round and around on the skating rink in the open air with music in the background and snow falling ever so gently on our noses. It was fabulous and stunning. It was freezing cold and our feet were almost falling off but we really had a good morning. Neither Rich nor I had ever been in falling snow before so it was a real experience and we had fun. We relaxed watching a DVD in the afternoon and Perry took us for some excellent coffee. We had dinner at a Thai restaurant and we met up with Michal and Neville who are also ex- South Africans now living in Vancouver. It was a lovely evening and the food was excellent. It really was so nice to be staying with friends in a warm comfortable home and having dinner with friends as opposed to a hostel and hanging around walking the streets of downtown in miserable weather (Thanks guys – we really appreciate it). We still haven’t really seen Vancouver because it has been too gloomy! They tried to drive us to the beach park and some view points but we couldn’t see through the dark-grey clouds hanging out being nasty.
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