Day 46-47 – Vancouver Adventures

Day 46 – Travel Day

Our first flight to Seattle was at 9:30am so we had a relatively early morning.
Our first flight was delayed and so we were worried that the delay would make us miss our second flight from Seattle to Vancouver. So we sprinted across terminals in a race that seemed like it almost belonged in a Hollywood movie. As it turns out, our second flight was also delayed by an hour so our dramatic sprint was unnecessary.
Once in Vancouver, we caught a couple of trains to Port Moody where our friends from church and school Jono and Bal picked us up. It was really great to see them, we have missed them! After Nathan had a prolonged hug with Jono we headed to their apartment. There was so much snow! They don’t usually get this much snow in Vancouver. Their view was amazing. Vancouver is a beautiful place to live. Jono cooked up a storm of pasta and after a catch up it was time to sleep to get ready for the next day’s adventures.

Much to our delight, school was called off late the night before because there was too much snow on the road. This meant we could spend the day with Jono and Bal as they are both teachers so we were very grateful for that. We started with some delicious homemade pancakes with maple syrup of course. We then went for a walk through the snow, it felt like we were walking through a winter wonderland. We wanted to go sledding but we didn’t have a sled so we improvised and bought 2 boot trays to sit on and tried that out, unfortunately Jono broke both relatively quickly. Luckily some friendly locals lent us their plastic sled, then we were much more successful.
We found a playground and Jono and Nathan took turns jumping off swings into the fluffy and deep snow. It was amusement for days. It was a really excellent and fun time.
After a nice warm coffee we ventured back through the deep snow, by this point we were feeling pretty cold.
After a quick gym session in their apartment building we settled in for the night with Kirsten making a delicious curry.