Sunday, June 1, 2014

Red deer

From the 20th may-today I spent time with my cousins in Red deer.  Red Deer is a city of 100,000 in central Alberta which is a centre for the oil and petroleum gas industries.

While I was there I mainly spent time meeting and hanging about with family members, we went to Drumheller and to horseshoe canyon while I was there too!
I'm a bit tired because I've just got to my relatives house on Long Island NY after a 7 hour flight so I'll probably upload some photos tomorrow.

Going to be in New York from the 1st june till the 10th june so I've got plenty of time to go sightseeing in the city!

Vancouver pics 3

Great market, live music and great food!
Went for a walk around the southern harbour
English bay
The stanley park coastal walk
Stanley park totem poles
 Panorama of the Vancouver skyline
Us at English bay yesterday 

Friday, May 30, 2014

Vancouver pics 2

Found this guy at the giftshop
Capilano suspension bridge and tree walks

This is at Grouse mountain
Top of Grouse mountain
I then took a ski lift to the wind turbine at the very summit of the mountain and then got the elevator to the top of the turbine to see the cloudy yet still stunning view of Vancouver.
Hate ski lifts

I also saw a wolf at the bottom of the mountain in another enclosure

Monday, May 19, 2014

Vancouver pics 1

Downtown vancouver
Stanley park

Vancouver

Been too busy having fun, sightseeing and changing hostels to update the blog, so sorry, but at least I'm getting round to it now :)
Done quite a bit while I've been here and met some amazing people, its just a shame I'm leaving them, would have been cool to stick around for a bit and work in Vancouver for a while.
We're actually having a picnic tonight on the beach for Victoria day, today is a bit of a chill day for me, im doing laundry, reading etc because ive been running around like a headless chicken all the last week.

I'll be posting some of the pictures of my Vancouver trip after this post by the way.

Downtown is crowded with the things that you'd expect to be in a popular, affluent, modern city.  Theatres, apartment blocks, skyscrapers and shopping centres make up most of downtown Vancouver, although it is a nice place the accumilation of drug addicts and homeless people makes downtown a particularly dodgy place at night.  Overall I like it here and I've been busy visiting; Grouse mountain, Capilano bridge, Stanley park, outer edges of downtown and granville market.

On grouse mountain the grizzly bears in the enclosure have just woken up from dormancy (technically not hibernation) so it was pretty fascinating to actually see them interacting with one another.

There's so much to say about my experience here, so I think I'll let the pictures explain otherwise I'll be here all day.

Vancouver

Been too busy having fun, sightseeing and changing hostels to update the blog, so sorry, but at least I'm getting round to it now :)
Done quite a bit while I've been here and met some amazing people, its just a shame I'm leaving them, would have been cool to stick around for a bit and work in Vancouver for a while.
We're actually having a picnic tonight on the beach for Victoria day, today is a bit of a chill day for me, im doing laundry, reading etc because ive been running around like a headless chicken all the last week.

I'll be posting some of the pictures of my Vancouver trip after this post by the way.

Downtown is crowded with the things that you'd expect to be in a popular, affluent, modern city.  Theatres, apartment blocks, skyscrapers and shopping centres make up most of downtown Vancouver, although it is a nice place the accumilation of drug addicts and homeless people makes downtown a particularly dodgy place at night.  Overall I like it here and I've been busy visiting; Grouse mountain, Capilano bridge, Stanley park, outer edges of downtown and granville market.

On grouse mountain the grizzly bears in the enclosure have just woken up from dormancy (technically not hibernation) so it was pretty fascinating to actually see them interacting with one another.

There's so much to say about my experience here, so I think I'll let the pictures explain otherwise I'll be here all day.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Seattle so far...Pictures day 2

Seattle's famous Pike place market
Pike place is particularly famous for its variety of fresh sea food, the "throwing of the fish" ceremony is also a mini tourist attraction
 Smith tower
The views from the top
A section of the underground tunnel tour
Seattle from the ferry
Entering Bainbridge on the ferry
Part of the harbour walk (stank of fish)
The original Starbucks coffee shop!