Summer in 100 Mile!

I've already been here for four days! The trip here was kind of exciting. First of all I tried to bring a full water bottle through security at Heathrow. I did not succeed. But I didn't loose my nice Nalgene bottle either. The security guard was really nice and went and just pored the water out. I guess she noticed that I wasn't terrorist material.

I thought I really would like Air Canada, but I missed New Zealand Air. Air Canada didn't have a single movie I wanted to watch! And it was a touch screen instead of a remote control which meant that the 8 year old Norwegian boy behind me could both hit me in the back with his feet (which he did a lot) and pick me in the head since he wasn't a gentle pusher of the buttons. I asked him once in Swedish to quit it out...but I don't know if he understood it or not!

I got some really nice pictures of the Canadian shield and the Coastal mountains of BC. I missed the Rockies though. My favorite picture is of a glacier and downtown Vancouver.

When I arrived at the airport I went to this information desk to see the quickest and cheapest way to the Greyhound bus depot. Since the taxi would be so expensive the man suggested taking the shuttle bus to downtown Vancouver and then the Skytrain. I arrived at the airport at 3.35 PM and the Greyhound was leaving at 5.45PM so I didn't have much time. The shuttle bus left the airport at 4.30PM and I didn't get off until 5.15PM. So I was kind of stressed out trying to find the Skytrain which wasn't easy. I didn't see a single sign for it. But after asking around I catched it at 5.25PM. Luckily it was just 3 stops with the train and when I got off this Australian backpacker helped me find the place. I actually had 10 minutes to buy the tickets but the line was so long so I missed the bus with about a minute. Then I was really lucky because there was another bus that would catch up with my bus at Chilliwack (about 2 hour drive east of Vancouver)! So i made it to 100 Mile finally. Jan, Jaimie and her "boyfriend" Paul ( I don't know if the use those terms yet) picked me up at 1:30AM when I arrived after I had text messaged Rickard to phone Jan since I couldn't get the number to work when I tried to phone in Chilliwack.

I supposedly brought the nice summer weather here! :o) It hasn't been too warm yet but very sunny. On Friday I had a pick nick with Jaimie and Paul which was nice! We went to Jan's mum's cabin at Green Lake for the weekend. It was assume. I went for a few kayak rides on the lake trying to get a even browner tan (which worked perfectly)! The Sunday ended with Mike taking me out to the tennis court. I haven't played since last time I was here three years ago so I was really rusty. But it was great fun! I really have to try and play when I get back again to Sweden.

The only thing planned for this week is a trip to Kamloops on Wednesday! I'm excited especially about visiting Costco again! I will tell you how that goes later! And now I'm going to go map hunting! It is going to be interesting to compare the map selection at the BC visitor centers with the visitor centers in NZ.

Talk to you later alligators!