Vancouver

Visited the Toronto Zoo yesterday and saw my first bear. Unfortunately, the 2 Grizzly's didnt seem to have been let in on the fact that this was my last chance to see a bear! They slept in their holes, occasionally getting into another position, but pretty much just slept. I sat there for, oh i dont know about half an hour, hoping that they had had enough sleep and that any second now they would jump up and do some circus tricks or something, but apparently it was not on their agenda.

Not really that photogenic, this was the best i could do.

The polar bears however were much more entertaining, well one of them,so i watched it swim around for a while.

The zebra was a poser and didnt mind me taking pics of him, he jus kept eating his grass. He was nice and close though.

The ostrich seemed to be a little upset about something but took great photos.

But the highlight of the visit for me was the baby Orangutun. He was born in Janurary and there is a contest going to give him a name. He was sooo cute. They were both so close, sitting right next to the window. He didnt have proper control of his arms n legs so they were just flopping around. Then she started feeding him and after that pulled some straw up and put the sheet over it to make a bed for him. She plonked him there and then let him suck on her fingers. It was hard for me to pull myself away from them.

After the crappy weather when i got here, yesterday turned out to be a really good day, even got a little sunburnt from walking around the zoo.

Today looks to be another nice day so i might head up the CN Tower and snap the great view, then head down a little further to walk along the lakeside.

Hope u are all well.
Take care & love ya, Bec

I have arrived in Toronto safely. Liss, Baz and Bianca where great at meeting me at the airport. From there we pretty much jus made our way home, made some pizza, caught up and went to bed.

Today we are hoping to go to a baseball game at about 1pm (if Liss is feeling up to it, she's feeling crappy-poor chicken) and i will get my first proper look at the city. Had cloud coverage pretty much all the way to the ground from the plane so am yet to see it.

Its great to be here,
Lots of love Becsta

This is a pic of Vancouver (cant remember if i have used it already)

My bedroom at Em & Kris place

Hey guys

Whislter Village with Blackcomb Mountain in the background.

This is my last day in Whistler. There has been the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival happening here. i havent seen a whole heap of it but for most of the arvo u can hear the music pumping from (i think this is right) canada's largest FREE open air concert. if im not right its close to it. last night we listened to this really cool dj for a bit then left to do some shopping, then came back n listened to this other dj who jus wasnt that good (he couldnt keep the beat while changing songs which made it hard to dance to, plus he would intro these songs we knew but then wouldnt let us listen to the best bit of the song). we started to get annoyed with him after a while and he took forever cause after him this huge band called Jurassic 5 was coming on. Em and I had never heard of them. they were ok, but not as good as the first dj so we listened for a little while before heading home for some pre going out drinkies (malibu & coke and Vex's).
oh yeah and must tell u that there was pot every where at this concert! we couldnt get away from the smell of it! (another reason why we didnt stay to long) but yes the rumours are true, there is alot of it over here and they aren't afraid to smoke it in public. I, of course, kept my distance.

This is the address to see some of what has been happening here
http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/todo/events/detail/twssf.htm

This is the website for Whistler here in case ur interested (and now that im leaving, yes i know!!!)
http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/index.htm

Will be in Toronto at 7.30pm on Sat, and Liss and Baz will meet me at the airport and take me to their house which is only 1 hour away. so keep in ming that Toronto is canada's largest city and is said to be pretty stuck up (if a city can be that way!?)Apparently its into the arts heaps. check out this site and it might give u some insight into what i'm headed for
http://www.torontotourism.com/visitor

Emma & Kris' collection of bottles to be recycled. They actually give u some good money for them, and so they should because u pay an extra .20c for them at the checkout register. By the way the boxes are full of bottles.

Gotta head off now and do my last rounds of the shops while i can. There are all open late over here.

Emma & I at a pub in Vancouver.

Take care and lots of love, Becsta

Hey guys,

Things are still going well. I think I have covered most of Whistler Village now, been into most of the shops and spent alot of money. The next couple of days i will be on the mountain (spare a thought for my muscles wont ya), will also be doing some walking around the neighbourhood checking out the scenery.

Looking forward to boarding, a little scared but Em will b there to hold my hand (ALL the ways down!!!) lol The view from up there will be excellent. Em had the next couple of days off to look after me so that will be great.

Easter was quiet here, made and ate some rocky road instead of easter eggs (very few to choose from). Didnt see any easter snow bunnies (they turn white in the snow!!!) or any bears yet either. Am really hoping to see one cause there are heaps around here but am also a little scared about actually seeing them up close and personal. Apparently they are more scared of us than we are of them so last night when i was walking home alone (about 9pm, not late but dark) i was purposefully walking very loudly and even singing at some stages (no im not crazy, was jus scared! plus im a good singer!!!!)

So will put some of these pics on for ya.
Love yas, take care, Bec

Hi All

Have been keeping busy the past couple of days. Monday we travelled back into Van to go to an Ice Hockey match. Had a great time, unfortunately the Vancouver Canucks lost, but its a great atmosphere and the stands were pretty packed! Encountered a few homeless people afterwards whislt trying to find somewhere to have a drink. Plenty of them around unfortunately. We bought a pitcher (jug) to share and tasted some of the local Candaian beer (truefully i cant tell the difference between beers, so any is good). Stayed the night in the YWCA, was a nice room and had yoghurt n a muffin for breaky at the Vancouver library food court.

Tuesday spent some big bucks buying plenty of souviners etc. Sears is a pretty cool place to shop (like our Myers) and found an awesome little shop called Claire's (so u can guess where your pressies came from Claire)! After spending all our money we headed back to Whistler to catch up with some of Emma & Kris' friends for drinks.

They have a great mixture of friends here. Lets just say having a group made up of Quebecer French (they speak French but its a little different to 'normal' French and live in Quebec in Canada), Kiwi's and Pommies makes playing drinking games very interesting, yet very confusing!!!!

Wednesday was a quiet one. Took another trip to the supermarket where all products have to have english and french. It can make it difficult to do things in a hurry when there is so much to read. Some products will have the english version facing forward with the french version sitting next to it, others have the french underneath the english. Quite confusing.

A couple people have asked me about seeing Mounties. Im yet to be that lucky, however i have seen plenty of police and police cars. Even saw them arresting a homeless guy for hanging around the library food court. Apparently they dont like that too much, they put him in the cuffs n all.

Okay guys well thats it for now. Keep up the comments and emails, its still nice to hear whats been happening at home.

Hope you all have a good Good Friday (haha funny i know) and a lovely Easter. You all get a couple days of holidays now like me so have fun!!!

Take care, Becsta