Van-city day 2

Vancouver, 8C Fine and sunny
Well it's day 2 here in Vancouver and the city is starting to grow on me. Managed to sleep from 6pm last night right through to 11am this morning, aside from the hour or so I spent awake discovering that my room is right above the outdoor area of the Beaver Bar downstairs, where they like to have late-night listenings of Dizzee Rascal and the The Beatles albums. Fortunately they also played a bit of Pendulum and SebastiAn hence I wasn't that upset about the situation.

I also picked up a new sim card today so you can now reach me on 604-9027-385. If you're sms'ing from Australia I believe you put +1 on the number, and if you're calling you'll need to put 0011+1 on the start of it. Shock of the day was that almost all Canadian phone companies charge you for "airtime" which is every minute you spend talking on your phone, whether you made the call or not. You also need to pay an extra subscription to be able to call 911, which seems a bit irresponsible. Cap plans pretty much dont exist either, I always thought we had it bad with mobile phones in Oz but these guys get charged for every little thing.

Alas, I basically spent the day wandering around Vancouver scoping out the city, which became very easy to navigate after only 2 days of being here. It truly is a sea-side town here, with the city going right up to the waterline and seagulls flying all over town. The picture above I took from the upper concourse of Waterfront station, I just love the fact there's another half of the city on the other side of the inlet that goes right to the base of the mountains, then just stops. And the fact those mountains are shrouded by clouds all day long, very picturesque!

Sunset begins at around 2pm which puts the sun on a hard angle, casting nice long shadows down the streets and giving the whole town a great golden glow. By 4pm you're walking with streetlights as the only light source, really messes with your body clock, save for the triple-shot coffee I accidentally ordered on the way back to the hostel, or maybe they did it because it took me so long to count out 72 cents.

Ah well, this is starting to become a pretty long post so I better wrap it up. The meetup for the people on the Moose Kickstart is tonight which will be good to meet some people. So far I've spent the past couple of days as one of those people that seem to survive without conversation, it's killing me! The kickstart is basically just a little 2-day package that they set up for the Whistler staff, you get a package on arrival that tells you where to get your social security number and whatnot. Then there's the meetup in the bar tonight, and all of tomorrow is spent touring around Vancouver in their bus, then on Monday we spend the day heading up to Whistler. The move to Whistler is very excitement, I've just been looking at their website and it looking pretty awesome, heavy snow in the village that's sticking around! Let alone the mountain now being officially open!

I've posted up some pics on facebook of my travels tonight, if you don't have facebook or are lazy you can click here to see the album.

That's about it for tonight! Do hit me up with comments and stuff!