Vancouver

Today we made our last flight of the trip to Vancouver. It was a pretty daytime flight above the USA Rocky Mountains in a very nice little 120 seat jet that Air Canada flies, an Embraer 190. They are very new & comfortable with the full electronic entertainment system in the back of the head rest as on many of the long haul jets. The flight was only 90 Min's. Can't wait for another trip on one of these.

I'm liking Canada already, although we had a bit of a rocky start.
A couple of nights before we left San Fran, I had discovered that I had not bought a copy of my University qualification which had been an "essential" document for a work permit. So I was stressing for two days & was sleep deprived going into Canada. It turns out that the Immigration officer wasn't too interested in the paper work, but was more concerned about Kerri trying to piggy back off my permit. Maybe it distracted her, but luckily her fellow officer beside her set her straight & it just took time to process the application.
The trouble started when we tried leaving the airport. We had had some success with Airport Shuttles to & from SFO, so we thought we would try it here. Big mistake! Instead of a 9 seater van, it was a coach & it took us 2 hrs to get to the hotel. They were not very cheap & complete rubbish! Not again! Taxi next time. The airport here is spitting distance from downtown.
We are here now & really excited! Canada is a beautiful place.

Our hotel is really nice. We are paying for the privilege a bit.
Off to explore tomorrow, then on the train the next day. Can't wait!
Did I say Vancouver is really nice? Oh, & the sun doesn't set until 10pm (I guess.). We haven't seen full darkness yet.