19th August 2006 - Day Ten

Begin Day 3.

Today was spent in Revelstoke.

It's a town about halfway between Vancouver and Calgary, which explains how we ended up there.

All 6 of us were able to fit into one room, which was good as we were all able to stay close to each other, as opposed to being in seperate rooms, potentially on different floors of the same hotel.

Today was spent driving. We reached Vancouver and stopped at a 7-Eleven to top up our phone. About 2 seconds later we got a call from my aunt in Edmonton saying that she, and everyone else in Vancouver that we know, had been ringing us all day.

It turns out that if you haven't got any credit on your phone in Canada, you can't recieve incoming calls.

Because of the way that the UK system works concerning mobile phones, it didn't even occur to us that we needed to keep the phone topped up.

It turned out that the hotel we were supposed to be staying at had only kept the rooms we had booked until 5pm, and it was already nearly 9pm.

My dad wandered up and down the road while me, Aliya, Talib and Majeed went across to the sea.
We walked onto the deck there and saw a few people fishing. Majeed wanted to stay till he saw someone catch something, so we stayed and watched and started to wander what it would be like to fish for ourselves.

After a while we found out that our room had indeed been taken already so we set off looking for somewhere else to sleep.

As had been experience for us the past few days, reservations are everything. Not only were we going around looking for somewhere to sleep, people we knew in Vancouver were doing the same thing too.

We must have been driving around for about an hour and a half until we got a phone call with some good news. We travelled across the bridge to get to North Vancouver, and quickly realised that were were in downtown Vancouver. There were cars and pedestrians everwhere, and we got lost very quickly.
Eventually we ended up on Robson Street, where our hotel was, and drove round looking for somewhere to park. My dad went to the front desk, got us booked in, parked the car and we all dragged our luggage up to our rooms. We had finally arrived.

We went downstairs to the restaurant that was just outside and had some food there. It was ok, but it was enough to quell our hunger for the evening. We got back to our rooms, and all fell alseep.

Finally, we were in Vancouver.

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