Our first day

After 39 hours 11 mins and 36.8 seconds we arroved in Vancouver Canada. The trip went fairly quickly for Tim and I, however Chis was unlucky enough to be seated next to a girl with plane sickness. We found Beijing to be very cold and a bit weird but they do great hot chocolates. Tims cousin Michael was at the airport to meet us and show us around. We grabbed some dinner and slept the night in a 33 degree room (opps). The next day we work up at 9:36am to discover our free breakie ended at 9:30am (opps). So we set out for Canada's version of Centrelink to get a TFN, however after an hour of walking we reallised it was Sunday and was only open Monday to Friday (opps). Deciding not to be so stupid from now on we quickly set up bank accounts and bought SIM cards for our phones. That pretty much took the whole day. So at the moment its 6:09pm and we are sitting in our room starving (because we havent had anything to eat yet) waiting for Michael to arrive and take us out to a good pub. A big Hockey game is on tonight which everyone seems a little crazy about so thats the plan. We are missing the perfect Aussie weather- it was 3 degrees today. Vancouver has a lovely views and mansions/houses but there are no clothes shops.... at all. Pokies dont have a "gamble" button either so we will all be saving a lot of money. We are enjoying ourselves so far and very excited to get to the ski resort. Havent found an adaptor or figured out our phones yet so we will make contact as soon as we can. Lots of love to all our families. xoxox TLC