Vancouver

So we got back to Vancouver quite late in the night and headed to a cheap hotel near to Chinatown. There are a lot of homeless people in that area of Vancouver and its quite depressing wandering that area of the city. Next day we dropped back our ski gear and had a potter around town. We finally found a nice cheap area filled with souvenir shops and spent the day wandering the city. I got a few things for home and some sweets. We saw a steam powered clock and booked a trip for the next day. Earlier in the day we had bought tickets for the cinema but someone had put the printing paper glossy side up in the machine. In the end we had to go up to the cinema and tell them the tickets didn't print and they pulled up all our info but we got sweets as well as tickets at the machines. They couldn't reprint the sweets tickets so they said to come in 45 minutes early (at 6.15, this is important later) to get a manager to sort it out and also to queue for the cinema. They don't have assigned seating there even if its busy. You just have to queue up early before the film starts and there is a big queue. So we arrived just before 6 and the manager was acting really weird. He kept stressing that we were meant to be there at quarter past. We just thought it was weird. We waiting around til about half in the end messing on the machines as no one was queuing for the film. Then we got our food off the manager. At 7 we went up to ask if we could go in and the guy laughed at us and said we would have to queue. We didn't understand as the film was suppose to start. Turns out Brians watch was exactly an hour fast so it was only 6 and we never realised. It was hilarious and embarrassing but we just sat down eating our food until we had to queue. We saw the adjustment bureau, it was quite good but not worth the two hour wait :) Next day we headed to Vancouver Island. Its a really scenic place. We headed out to Victoria and went to a bug museum to burn time before going to the gardens that the tourist office recommended. The bug museum was really great and completely outshone the gardens. We got to hold tarantula, scorpions and various stick insects. They had loads of info and a little herd of dogs outside that were very fun to play with. One left the zoo on my backpack though. We found it at the bus stop and Brian had to run back with him before the bus came (he is much faster than me). At the bus stop we learned Brian's watch was 10 minutes fast so at this point we realised it was completely broken. We then went to the gardens that were very picturesque. There were a lot of different styles and an indoor and outdoor area. There was also some fountains and things. It was a really nice walk around. On the last day our plans for beach walks and trips to the park kinda failed. We missed the bus cause we didn't know the time and the bus was 38 dollars which was way to much for one day but yo had to buy a pass or something. Then we wandered around town and went to a book shop and I returned a book I had previously got for two different ones.

We got the the airport and I took my phone out of my bag only to find the screen was completely black except for some lines of coloured pixels. I turned it off in the hope that it was just temporary (I had to hope). Anyway in thee end it was definitely broken. So disappointing, especially while away. I was very attached to the phone. Usually I do something to them ut this had been in a net pocket in my backpack so it was safe and wouldn't have been affect by anyone bumping into to me or putting it too heavily on the ground. So it just broke. Also we lost pancake Tuesday coming over the date line :(