Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Ok, so to elaborate on the short summaries.....
Basically all we did tues was drive to van, when we got there we got a room at the ramada for one night and headed over to pho hoa for dinner. Even though it's a franchise, it's much better in van than here.
The task at hand was to find another hotel, we got a room at days inn for 3 nights. On wed, we went to chinatown where we bought wushu shoes from a nice chinese man who gave us a discount because Stephen happened to be wearing his Ging Wu jacket. Then we set out to go to gastown and accidentally stumbled across pacific shopping centre... we went back to gastown to get a typical standing-by-the-steam-clock picture. For dinner, we had some really good chinese food.
Thurs, we went shopping on robson street and pacific centre. I bought a few items from AX since we don't have one here. We spent some time looking for the gucci store which surprisingly not a lot of locals knew the location of. For dinner, we had sushi which of course was better than edm sushi.
Being chinese, we went back to chinatown fri morning then to richmond. We shopped around a bit in parker place which is basically a small chinese mall. The food court is all chinese food and bubbletea. Had some really good taro bubbletea. We then headed over to the night market a bit early to beat the traffic.
On our last day in van, we went to metrotown shopping centre for a couple hours then hit the road for kelowna. Days inn overcharged us $10/night at checkout and claimed that they told us the price they were charging when in fact they had told us something different when we booked the room.... but we didn't let that ruin the trip and gave them a second chance by booking a room at their kelowna location for 2 nights....
We arrived in kelowna only to find that the hotel was overbooked and we didn't have a place to stay! What's the point of a reservation?!?!!? Jokes about trashing their lobby were thrown around to try not to get too angry.... Kelowna was mainly booked since it was a sat night, we had to go to a dinky hotel in a tiny town next to kelowna... felt like the middle of nowhere and the room smelled a little funky. We stayed there for one night and in the morning we went to the travelodge right next to the beach in kelowna to ask for a room for 2 nights... it was a nicer room and a little cheaper even. Go figure. It was a great location so I guess somethin good came out of days inn bein totally stupid.
On sunday, we went to a few wineries trying to find some apple wine but we had little luck. We went paddleboating for a bit. We had some really nasty "chinese" food that was really meant for white people so it sucked for us. Later, we had to have some bp's wings and dry ribs to tie us over.
Monday was the best part of the trip for me. We went parasailing and it was awesome! It sounds like a ripoff when I tell you it was almost $90 for a mere ten min of "flying" plus a t-shirt and photo, but when I was up there I felt like it was worth every penny. Some mediocre real chinese food was for dinner.
Tues morning, we were alberta bound. We had a deathly gloomy ride home. It rained quite a bit and I was wearing shorts because it was really nice in kelowna but by the time we got to edm... I looked like a fool. We headed directly to jumbo restaurant for yet another meal of chinese food and I ran into bowie who made fun of my attire.
Basically all we did tues was drive to van, when we got there we got a room at the ramada for one night and headed over to pho hoa for dinner. Even though it's a franchise, it's much better in van than here.
The task at hand was to find another hotel, we got a room at days inn for 3 nights. On wed, we went to chinatown where we bought wushu shoes from a nice chinese man who gave us a discount because Stephen happened to be wearing his Ging Wu jacket. Then we set out to go to gastown and accidentally stumbled across pacific shopping centre... we went back to gastown to get a typical standing-by-the-steam-clock picture. For dinner, we had some really good chinese food.
Thurs, we went shopping on robson street and pacific centre. I bought a few items from AX since we don't have one here. We spent some time looking for the gucci store which surprisingly not a lot of locals knew the location of. For dinner, we had sushi which of course was better than edm sushi.
Being chinese, we went back to chinatown fri morning then to richmond. We shopped around a bit in parker place which is basically a small chinese mall. The food court is all chinese food and bubbletea. Had some really good taro bubbletea. We then headed over to the night market a bit early to beat the traffic.
On our last day in van, we went to metrotown shopping centre for a couple hours then hit the road for kelowna. Days inn overcharged us $10/night at checkout and claimed that they told us the price they were charging when in fact they had told us something different when we booked the room.... but we didn't let that ruin the trip and gave them a second chance by booking a room at their kelowna location for 2 nights....
We arrived in kelowna only to find that the hotel was overbooked and we didn't have a place to stay! What's the point of a reservation?!?!!? Jokes about trashing their lobby were thrown around to try not to get too angry.... Kelowna was mainly booked since it was a sat night, we had to go to a dinky hotel in a tiny town next to kelowna... felt like the middle of nowhere and the room smelled a little funky. We stayed there for one night and in the morning we went to the travelodge right next to the beach in kelowna to ask for a room for 2 nights... it was a nicer room and a little cheaper even. Go figure. It was a great location so I guess somethin good came out of days inn bein totally stupid.
On sunday, we went to a few wineries trying to find some apple wine but we had little luck. We went paddleboating for a bit. We had some really nasty "chinese" food that was really meant for white people so it sucked for us. Later, we had to have some bp's wings and dry ribs to tie us over.
Monday was the best part of the trip for me. We went parasailing and it was awesome! It sounds like a ripoff when I tell you it was almost $90 for a mere ten min of "flying" plus a t-shirt and photo, but when I was up there I felt like it was worth every penny. Some mediocre real chinese food was for dinner.
Tues morning, we were alberta bound. We had a deathly gloomy ride home. It rained quite a bit and I was wearing shorts because it was really nice in kelowna but by the time we got to edm... I looked like a fool. We headed directly to jumbo restaurant for yet another meal of chinese food and I ran into bowie who made fun of my attire.
Home sweet home... I guess.... the weather is just horrible! Anyway, I'm back from my vacation and I thought I'd give a day-by-day summary.
tues, 9th: drove to van city as fast as possible. went to pho hoa for dinner, much better than e-town pho
wed, 10th: went to chinatown. had really good chinese food
thurs, 11th: went shopping on robson st and around that area. had sushi for dinner
fri, 12th: went back to chinatown, then to richmond (had really good taro bubbletea). later, checked out the night-market
sat, 13th: went to metrotown, then drove to kelowna
sun, 14th: rented a paddleboat for a bit, then went to wineries tryin to track down some apple wine... no luck
mon, 15th: found apple wine. then went PARASAILING!
tues, 16th: gloomy drive back home
I'll probably give more in depth summaries of each day later. For those of you who are curious. And in a vain hope of tracing back what happened to all of my money!??!?!
tues, 9th: drove to van city as fast as possible. went to pho hoa for dinner, much better than e-town pho
wed, 10th: went to chinatown. had really good chinese food
thurs, 11th: went shopping on robson st and around that area. had sushi for dinner
fri, 12th: went back to chinatown, then to richmond (had really good taro bubbletea). later, checked out the night-market
sat, 13th: went to metrotown, then drove to kelowna
sun, 14th: rented a paddleboat for a bit, then went to wineries tryin to track down some apple wine... no luck
mon, 15th: found apple wine. then went PARASAILING!
tues, 16th: gloomy drive back home
I'll probably give more in depth summaries of each day later. For those of you who are curious. And in a vain hope of tracing back what happened to all of my money!??!?!
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Evenin ladies and gents. Only one month of summer left.... but that's ok cause I'm goin on vacation soon! Yay! I'll be in calgary this sat and sun for my cousin's wedding, back in edm on mon just to pack for van city! Leavin early tues morning; I should be back by the 18th or 19th... somewhere around that time, nothing's set in stone so I'll cya when I cya.
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