Well so far Vancouver is amazing. I had an amazing flight, was upgraded to club class. Had a bed which was just stupid amazing. Got stopped at Heathrow and my hand luggage searched and swabbed for drugs. I hate airport security, they always single me out.
Get to Vancouver and immigration. Why am I coming here, the whole 20 questions. Guy lets me through the gate and then two burly looking security guards put their hands out and say 'stop'. I get shuffled along into this holding area and get this guy totally interrogating me 'how long am I here' Do I have criminal convictions?' (be honest with me sir) 'who do I know here?'. S I tell him I know an old work colleague, a friend in Seattle,voodou & Cruella. He skipped details on the guys I know and asked me how I knew 'these' girls. I tell him I met them through a Pirate forum on the internet, he wants to know the website so I tell him Its Sg. Writes this all down, and Im now starting to panic. Im waiting for about 10-15 minutes well It feels like that anyway) while the guy runs my details and phones voodou. He gets back, being rude as fuck and says you can go.... I then get stopped at the other end of the hall because the asshole has kept paperwork I need. There are armed cops holding their hands on thier guns. I finally get through and Im pretty shaken up after a 10 hour flight. I get through into arrivals to see the coolest and funniest sight ever.....
That totally made up for all the shit up till then.....
Travelled across town to my hotel, dropped my stuff off and then went out for Sushi. The girls had said how good it was here, and it truly is. The Miso soup was excellent too... So cheap!
Went out to a bar and met Steve, who the poster had warned me was 'a dick' haha... Had a good few drinks and was a great night. Walked along Granville and just took in the scenes. We bumped into Titaworking, which was funny as I'd been talking to her earlier in the week, and finally I got back in about 4am after cruella's flatmate decided we were all making too much noise...
Got up the next day and just walked about town to get my bearings. Tried to get lost so that I would learn my way about. But with the grid system that is pretty much impossible. Im walking down the street and here someone shout 'hey Mr' and tita is on her way to work. I just found it bizarre that in a town i dont know I bumped into someone. Met up with the girls a bit later, and we went to a cool shop that has all sorts of insane items I wanted to buy. Pretty cool. Then went to Cruella's and I got Tattooed..
Yesterday I went to Cypress view which was just amazing... could see the whole of Vancouver. My friend Jon picked me up and we drove up there. Just amazing. Went back to his had a few beers and just chatted. Was quite bizarre as the last time I saw him was in London in December when we were working together. Got the boat back across from West Vancouver and Headed to [s_eldorado's house. He was a truly amazing host and a great guy to boot. glitch, Steve and a host of cool people were there.
Crazy night, but as soon as I had a smoke and sat down the travelling and partying hit me. Was completely dead. Still was an awesome night and made me laugh so much. Pretty much everyone is hungover today, I got in about 4.30 this morning and have probably had 3 hours sleep. Im desperately trying but it aint happening. Still an amazing holiday so far!
