ok, wow. lots has happened. some of you have been kept upto date cos u r on MSN at 5am when i log on here.....you guys know who u are. others have been blessed with personal e-mails. the rest of you schmucks who read this - sorry. if you send me an e-mail i will try and reply to it.
got free wireless internet for the next 5 days so hopefully will be able to keep people updated a bit more:
i guess the best place to start is the start :P
on the 27th - got up at like 5am. got plane from adelaide to sydney. pretty un eventful
i got a bus from the domestic terminal to the international. this took a while but with some help from ritz bitz i got there :D not that she knew the place just yeah. what ever.
then bummed around for a while, spoke to some canadians who said i would have a blast. they are right
then on the plane to taiwan. watched a movie - the 4th time i have tried to watch pirates 2 and failed - fell asleep. and i watch the guardian which was good.
taiwan was awesome. we stayed in the number 1 golf course's country club hotel thing. rooms were sweet.
we hit the town later - the night markets and a club called carnigies - http://www.carnegies.net/
what a great time. i danced on top of the bar and shook my hair around. decent music and twas fun. we stayed out quite late to set our body clocks to canadian time - it worked somewhat.
we got a cab back to the golf place and it took the taxi driver twice aslong to find it as it did the first taxi driver to find town from it. needless to say 2 hours later we jumped out the cab, abused him somewhat in english and gave him half the cab fair.
then we had the flight to vancouver. unfortunatly no tvs :( we slept the most part and when i couldnt sleep i read alot of 'next' by michael crichton. good book :P
tim and adam popped sleeping pills so they were out for most of the flight.
then we arrived in VC which is where me madeour biggest mistake but ended out to our advantage.
we didnt get our work visas finalised at the airport - bummer. more on this later.
tom picked us up - a mate of adams - and he became our tour guide for the next 3 days.
he drove us around and took us to the local hill where people ride and ski. we had a look around and from there u can see right to the USA border - oh and also alll ov VC.
then we hit some snowboard shops and went to bed.
the next couple of days were filled with buying snowboard gear, sorting out working visas and havin a good time.
we went to a couple of pubs and bought lots of stuff.
for those who knows about snowboarding stuff (billy)
ive got some salomon boots and bindings. spyder jacket and pants and a nitro board. - pics to follow
the interesting story of the trip so far is the working visa story. after travelling to a few places to sort it out - we found out we had to leave the country and re-enter if we wanted them. we figured we could do it anywhere when we came through the airport (we did look and the immigration office was shut at the time)
so we hopped on a bus down to the US border. here we met james. james is a top bloke. 21, in real estate, ex snowboard instructor. he is rolling in the cash now cos he deals with alot of property. he just started talking to us and offered us a lift from the bus stop to the boarder. we were most grateful. then he said he would pick us up once our visas were sorted.
we cruised across the border - took some photos with the "welcome to the united states of america" board. got "flagpolled" in the US. then came back to canada and got our visas sorted no hastled.
then james said he would take us and show us a couple of snowboard shops - sweet. now this dude is realy busy. he canceleed some appointments and showed us around. we all got boards and bindings and he saved us a bunch of money. his real estate bargaining skillz saved me $175 all up off the board and bindings. saved tim $225 and adam $175. we also got some bags cheaper. kick ass!!!!!
he said all he wants in return is for us to show him round our subsequent cities if/when he comes to australia. i have no doubt he will has he has lots of money and from what he was saying he wants to invest in more property. anyway moving on
we had a crazy morning on wednesday. early early start cos we had to walk quite a way, catch the skytrain (monorail for those simpsons watchers) and then meet up with toms mate who drove us to the airport.
we got there intime. customs gave us all shit and made us late for our plane though >< they were calling our names over the intercom when we were walking on.
we got to calgery, got the bus. and we are now staying in the samesun hostel in banff. :D
banff is a wicked place. tims mate came and showed us around, we did an 'ammbasodors' course teaching us about banff which was interesting and we got $300 off our season pass for the big 3 - sunshine, lake louise and some other place which isnt so good apparantly.
anyway after all that we sank some local brews - they have well priced alcoholic beverages here - with some of the crew back at the hostel.
today we hit lake louise for a while and it was great being back on the board.
its now almost 4pm - time and adam are out trying to find jobs, sorting out a phone and a bank account.
phones here are expensive. $70 for a sim and to connect to a network and NO CREDIT!!!! :O:O:O:O
oh well i dont think i will get one :P
anyway i desperatly need a shower, my feet are very cold. we have a couple of room mates from ireland who are pretty cool. claira and i dont know the others name.
we have met so many people on the way. *tries to remember them all*
our two room mates now
the two room mates we had in VC (each stayed 1 night and we saw very little of them)
tom, and his mate
fayme - this chick from a ski shop we bought some stuff. she came out and had dinner with us.
she also owns a nice is300 lexus which i told her all about :P
a few other randoms from snowboard shops.
james - top bloke.
eathen - a ski patroller from the states who is here for a few days doing some comp. he is in the same sun and is pretty cool.
tim's friend here whos names i have also forgotten (all my name forgetting is a problem, cant call everyone ur mate)
oh and james's girlfriend who we randomly somehow met on another bus and we were talkking about james and she said, "james.....*insert last name here*???"
we said yep and she said wow, i used to date him. was a very randoms meeting.
anyway im babbling now. will try and get some pics up next entry of all the stuff i have mentioned here.
cyuzzz
gerald
p.s. sorry for the spelling, i CBF'd re-reading and fixing it all i know its terrible.
pp.s sorry if this all seems like blogarea to you but oh well
cherio
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