Seattle

Today we arrived in Seattle, the first leg of our mexican adventure. We don't have a computer, just an iPod so can't upload any pictures, but it was a fun day. We saw the famous fish market, the original starbucks, two mummies, and explored the underground part of the city which is pretty creepy. The city burnt down in 1889 and they decided to build it up to stop the flooding so built the buildings with the second floor as the main level and entrace, then built retaining walls with roads on top and slowly filled the gap with dirt and unwanted stuff, leaving the footpath at the original level. Then they ran out of money and the footpaths stayed at a lower level for 4 years. 17 people died from falling from the road level to the pavement. Weird.
Anyway, we're off to Mexico city tomorrow, which is pretty exciting!

Limo Goodbye

Yesterday was our last day of work, but because of high winds the mountain was closed. Hooray! Last night we went to Abotsford, which is about an hour away, to watch some hockey with some people from work. It was pretty fun. We went there in a limo bus, which made us feel like we were rockstars. The hockey teams were the Manitoba Moose and the Abotsford Heat. We supported the moose, which I thought was because they had a better name, but turns out they are the feeder team for the NHL Vancouver Cannucks, even though Manitoba is ages away. There was lots of fighting, which caused this Aussie we work with to yell 'bring back the biff'.

There were the intermission kids playing which were pretty cute, although not as small as the last ones we saw

Then we headed back to the limo for the ride home.

We head off to Seattle and then Mexico tomorrow morning so that is probably the last time we'll see everyone, although if we get summer jobs at Grouse we'll see some of them again. It was a fun night, now we are into holiday mode, and have to hope for jobs or book some tickets back to NZ soon. We wont have our computer, but will have my ipod so we can write blogs, but not upload any photos unless we have computers in the places we're staying, but we will be able to keep in touch.

EXCITING!

All you can eat Japanese

For St Pats day 5 of us had some Guinness at our place and headed out for some all you can eat Japanese. This is what we had, the numbers on the side are how many plates of each dish we ordered.

It was so delicious and plentiful all for $11 each before tax. I recommend people should visit Vancouver just to eat this.

Day of FUN

Yesterday 6 of us went to Castle Fun Park, which was ages away, but worth the trip. As the name suggests it's a fun park in a castle. There are go karts, dodgems, arcade games (2 floors), batting cages, remote control boats and 3 mini golf courses. It would be the best place ever to have a birthday. And everything was super cheap.

Sam, Pat and Alex tried some batting. Pat and Alex tried the 70mph baseball cage, Alex being the most successful. Sam stuck to 50mph softball, socking some sweet dingers.

Sam tried some hockey target practice, which turns out is harder than it looks.

Everyone tried the soccer goal but me because I was afraid I would lose my sneaker.

Then we played jungle mini golf. It was really cool, the fanciest mini golf I've played. There were dwarves.

They pushed Pat in the well. Oh no!

The results were;
1.Pat
2.Sam
3=.Sara
3=.Alex
5.Jessie
6.Sam (Jessies little brother)

After that we played some arcade games and I won some nerds, a tootsie roll, a chupa chup, a parachute man and a jumping frog. Fun!

Then we drove back to Vancouver and watched a Giants game. It was really cool, turns out hockey makes way more sense in real life.

Then some wee hockey players played between two of the periods. They were maybe 5 years old, and very good at falling down.

We got to meet Mr Peanut. He was so classy.

In the car park I met the biggest ute I've seen. It was a dodge ram, which has a really corney ad on the american channels where he has a personality. Hence I was fairly excited to meet him.

Mexico

Yesterday we booked a month long trip to Mexico!

The winter season on Grouse ends sometime this month, and the summer season on Grouse and at the other resorts we have applied for jobs at, start mid-may, meaning we have a month and a half off. Hopefully by the end of this month we'll know if we have new jobs or will be heading back to NZ. We've handed in our notice for our house, and will be heading to Mexico on the 1st of April, so we'll either travel between our jobs, or fit in some travelling and head back to NZ for our 3rd winter in a row!

Alaska

Today we booked a cruise to Alaska for 8 days. Exciting! It leaves on the 1st of May. I'm sure we will be the youngest by about 60 years, but everyone says its worth it because it's so scenic and nice. Fun!