Last Post :'( Goodbye Canada

before i start this entry, i'd like to say a big thank you for following our journey, and i hope you've enjoyed reading about it as much as we have enjoyed being here...

I am going to miss Canada and the people in it, we have met so many nice people that we will never forget and we have been taught some great life lessons!, like Steff learning to be responsible, me learning not to worry as much. We have had our ups and downs (mainly ups) along the way and we have had great fun, the outcome of this is i am never going on holiday with steff for that amount of time AGAIN....nah i've loved every minute of it!!!!.....would i do it all again...YES!...highlights: kelowna first time round and white water rafting! and everything else..singing at the top of our voices to scare away bears...the scence musuem haha. The fear of walking through chinatown! and the greyhound bus journeys and seeing a baby bear....i have sent 24 hrs a day for 5 weeks with Steff and surprisingly she is still unharmed...could i spend another 5 weeks with her...yes! i have loved it...funny times! great times...i'm never gonna forget it..my facebook friends count has gone up bout ten yesssssss¬¬.Our plane hourney home is nine hours long and we land into edinurgh at like really early in the morning on thursday! im dying to see my proper friends again...=] and mum and dad =] we secretly missed them alo!!!! altho its like weve never been saway what with this facebook nonesnese haha!

for our last day we went to the beach! we went to the art gallery and took alook around vancouver city one last time. Our hearts broke as the realisation of we are not gonna be here again in a long while sunk over us...we will find it hard to leave! lets hope the journey home is stress free and relaxing haha naaaaa!!!!

Apples =]

Today Steff and I made a journey to the 'party place' in Vancouver, the place where anyone who is anybody wants to be...the music and the partying was still going on from yesterday celebrations and the street was a mess, full of cups and empty beer bottles everywhere and the streets were just full of drunks!, oh yes we were at Granville Street!, we went shopping for some gifts for ourselves and had a look around, everything was so expensive, Emily brought a jade buddha and steff brought a moose hat (see picture on facebook!), we felt good spending money on ourselves and not on basic supplies..a homeless guy came up to us and asked if he could have money to "get some cocaine and a whore", we were like Dude we don't have no money!!....we then headed back to the hostel, when we got there we realised we had left our keys in our room so we had to get the guy at the front desk to make us new keys and they didn't work so we asked him again and third time lucky......it still didn't work! so he had to open the door for us, it was really embrassing!..Steff decided to go and see some friends and Emily spent the remainider of the day reading her book on the top patio with some sweets and sunbathing! i did have lots of suncream on!! =) this is my second last post of the holiday....=(

Mike, Sun, Granville, FOOOTBALL

The streets were packed due to the football game...Spain against Netherlands!...the atmosphere was great, personally we never watched the football game but we loved just being in the midst of it all, watching all the drunk british and all the spainish shouting "england suck" when england wasn't even playing =S. We went to Granville Island to look around, it was an floating market on the sea, there was lots of delicous food, and strange things that we would never eat like pigs feet and monkey brains!, everyone was out, it was so hard to move about, and to listen to all the mayhem that football causes is so funny.

Emily accidently kicked a homeless person! which was not so good, good job Steff didn't see!. The music and the noise coming from everywhere really enthusized us, it was the time when we wished we loved football!, a kid blew a big trumet in our faces and took a photo of us!, which was so strange...Steff and i had to swap shoes again cause her feet were sore!...

On granville island we watched a british street performer perform magic, he was really good, and while we watched it we ate cherries..we felt sorry for the poor guy next to us, he was on the phone and the street performer went over to him and snatched the phone off him and went "oi mate do you know your disturbing my magic show!, everyone in the crowd say hey...oh by the way im gonna hang up!" into the mobile and switched it off and gave it back to the guy!, he was a real grump i'm telling you...the street performer then carried on..he said some funny things like "hey i'm british and i have clean teeth" it was like...what do canadians really think we are?!....

Steff and I then met up with Mike, he brought us coffee and we spoke and laughed, i really enjoyed myself....Steff went to the loo and i was smiling as i was talking to mike and he said
Mike: "what are you smiling at? have i got something on my face"
Em: Yes you do
Mike: What do i have on my face then?
Em: your beard

and he burst out laughing, Steff came back and said i was being cheeky but he found it funny, i really loved our evening spending time with him!...

Emily put lots of suncream on so she didn't get burnt!...

A guy was sitting on a post smiling at Emily, like he knew her and she couldn't remememeber where she had met him, she then realised she met him in kelowna in the second week of being in canada and she just passed him in the street on Granville Island wow the world is a small place!...

I think this has been the best holiday ever!!!, i will NEVER EVER forget it!, as its drawing to a close i really wish we could of stayed longer...Steff says if she stays here any longer she would become diabetic because there is so many cakes!....

we passed a buliding that said BIRKS on it so we decided to take a photo for the Birks family! =) cause we found it funny!

Steff was getting annoyed cause nobody was texting er due to the football, she then realised she doesn't mean that much to people! and she thought she did hahahaha! i awlays tell her 1.football 2.beer 3.girls! thats what guys think bout! haha...

Brownies! Old Faces! A Proper Breakfast!

Sorry about not blogging yesterday, i was so tired, i couldn't keep my eyes open!..

well yesterday we awoke at like 9.30 and went down to get some breakfast where we bumped into this lost puppy who was only sixteen and didn't know how to make pancakes or toast so Emily showed him, it was very funny to see him making pancakes and it was very entertaining! we still had two eggs left over from the meal we had the night before which was spagetti, tuna, and egg, with no sauce it was really dry and sticky. We then decided to make chocolate brownies (altho we never thought how we would tranport them to Vancouver...), everyone was jealous they all wanted them and Emily iced them with chocolate sauce and Steff went around putting chocolate sauce on peoples faces, i am suprised they never hit her!...the time came where we needed to set off for the greyhound bus..so we placed the chocolate brownies into a plastic bag (it looked like a bag of poo) and steff wouldn't put them in her bag as she said she didn't want to be stopped carrying a bag of poo!...so i carried them, they sweltered in my bag for six hours on the bus! ewww!, on the bus a woman sat next to me and said she was part english as her great grandparents came over from England and settled in Canada...it was rather interesting to hear her stories...when we arrived in Vancouver, we had an hours walk to get to the hostel, it was very easy but i imagined it to be harder than it was probably because i have been walking alot, we entered and there was free chocolate so we munched on that for a few hours as it has been five weeks since we have had proper chocolate..we then bumped into the moose tour we met in kelowna and a few guys from Lake Louise and a guy we met on our first time to Kelowna it was so freaky, it was like being reunited with old friends...we then went to our rooms and fell asleep..i rememeber falling asleep around 9pm cause i was so tired...we then awoke to a free breakfast of everything it was so great!!!!, my sunburn is really bad so i am gonna stay in the hostel as i can't move!

All that glitters is gold, only shooting stars break the mould!! (8)

Steff and I moved into room 210, last night and it was great to awake and be in the same room as her!...i felt really lonely and kinda paranoid in the other room!...we got ready and headed to the beach and spent the whole day..where we swam in the lake..it was awesome the weather is sooo hot its still 39C and its six aclock, and we are both sweating and its yicky but i feel better!, we went to subway for lunch and got a litre bottle of slush puppie each, very cool!, we then went for a walk!!!....today has been great! i really have enjoyed it..i was so embrassed on the beach a guy walked past and said "hows the water" i thought he was speaking to us as he looked like a guy from the hostel and so i replied and he gave me a dodgey look and laughed...obv he wasn't speaking to me!, this is our last day in Kelowna(YAAAAASSSSSSSSSS) before we head to the last stop in our journey which is Vancouver..time has flew by so fast!, ah we don't wanna leave!..i wanna leave Same Sun Hostel but i don't wanna leave Canada..our greyhound is at 11.00am tommorow!...woop!

"Hammocks!"

The people in my room must be so annoyed at them, me and steff are seperated into two different rooms...and i stood on this woman which i didn't mean 2, then i kept russling and this guy was like RAWR!, it was seriously so bad! so i awoke at 4.30am and went for a walk, i saw the sun rising and it was very pretty, then i went on the hammock till 7.30am, got breakfast and didn't see steff till around 3.30pm, i spent the day with Marc and Melaine, we went to the beach and went swimming!...it was awesome!, i met Toby one of steffs friends, they are away playing volleyballl but i can't play so i decided to stay here with Marc!....it is like 39*C! its totally hot hot!..melting! sunscreen! =) music ,its cool! =)....! Mel fell off the hammock, it was funny! =)....we stayed in the sun!! it was awesome and we moved room to room 210! later we are going swimming in the lake! =_

Here Again Back To The Days And I Remeber You Always =(

So here we are! again in the Same Sun Hostel! in Kelowna! i don't know how we ended up here but we did and nobody else is here!...its so weird i expected people to be here and now they aren't!....i wanted at least to see Mathieu again :/ hmfth!...well we are here cause Steff wants to see Toby! and stay in the sun! secretly its cause she wants to get drunk :L only kidding!...=( i am not happy bout not going to jasper and coming back here but its all cool!...really! i just don't see the need to be socialable! cause i miss everyone!!!!......=) well what can i say!...i should of voiced my opinion when i had the chance too!....=) me and Steff are in seperate rooms which is cool!...gives me a chance to be by myself! haha!....=) and i can hog the computer!...=)and i have the straighteners and the hair dryer serves her right for bringing me back to this place lol!....=)

Sore Feet!

Well.....................................

Haha, sorry i have nothing funny to say...and i can't think of anything witty or interesting to say!...and this is probably just a waste of ink cause i can't think of anything to say....hey you would be too 30 days into a journey!!...haha!

this morning we went to a musuem it was FUN!.....Emily made fun of the art gallery "i can feel the anguish of the painter in his strokes of red!"...Steff looked not amused...

she then goes onto tell me that i sound too posh and that i should sound more scottish than english..well sorry if i am proud to be english...we have had so many people coming up to us and sayin "you don't sound scottish" "well guv! thats cause we are from england"....i reply then Steff goes "naw mate we're from scotland ya bass..2k10 in da mix man!!" haha not really something along those lines anyways!...

we went to a buddhism part of the museum which i was really interesting in!...i was like "i knew that and that piece of information is wrong" and i was tellin Steff all about buddhism and she looked disinterested which was really not cool, we then went to a mineral rock part of the museum and steff went on and on it was like a chemsitry lecture! dad you'd of been proud!...Steff was moaning about sore feet as she had brought some new shoes and had yet to break them in...so we were walking extra slow!...i said enough is enough and we headed back to the hostel where we spent the rest of the day reading!...Steff brought cookies!!!

The Bagpipes were playing by a group of eople who were preteneding to be scottish...which is awful steff abandoned me! cause she couldnt listen to it anymore!!

Rainy Days Are Here Again!

We thought we had nothing to do, so we had a lie in! which was a terrible idea!...Emily awoke at 9am and got up and ready and Steff stayed in bed till around 10.30am. We looked at the weather forecast (not "WE" more like Emily!) and she thought it would be lovely and sunny(the weather forecast did say it was to be sunny!!) so we both put dresses and suncream on...as soon as we left the hostel it started to pour down with rain and didn't we stick out like a sore thumb, anybody looking at us would of spotted we were tourists straight away!...the rain didn't stop us from going out, we walked in the rain like it was a normal day where as others ran for cover under bus stations roofs and what not!...it was an eventful morning and Steff was rather peed off at Emily but she just laughed...it was lovely to walk in the rain, we went to the shops to get some food and Emily couldn't find the exit to the store and the shopkeeper was laughing at her!...we then went to get Steff a new pair of shoes cause hers were stinking and the soles kept coming out and they had holes in them and they were awful!!!....she desperately needed a new pair of shoes!...they were quite minkie!....the rain was pouring and wouldn't stop so we headed for a walk around to see what was what..Emily had to stop Steff from going to macdonalds!..the tempatition was far too much for steff but i reminded her that we didn't have enough money to waste on such things as macdonalds!! so i literally had to drag her away from the entrance to macdonalds!...we headed back to the hostel, hungry and cold!...we swapped into warm clothes and curled up and watched "Blast From The Past" in peace and quite...the hostel was really quite which was a surprising change from yesterday..

Chair Theft!

Well we are in Calagary!!...its a city! yay no more warnings of bears!! Steff is pleased about that...
We awoke at around 9.30am and went and got breakfast before we packed...we had nutella oatmeal it was rather awesome!!....we then put some nutella in a cup of milk to make hot chocolate for us both it turned out terribley wrong and it exploded in the microwave :/. We then packed up everything and went to sit upstairs and guess who we bumped into! Simon, the rafting instructor ..we now have the feeling he is stalking us..he was like "are you trying to get rid of me" cause we ran away!! haha it was not so good. The time came when we hopped onto the greyhound bus...there was so many junkies on the bus it was unbelivable..this was at 4.50pm, we arrived at calagary at 7.15pm and got instructions on how to get to the HI hostel, because i wasn't there and Steff didn't listen (but she said she did!) we headed half an hour in the wrong direction to be told it was 2 hours in the other direction, so after much grumpiness and muttering from Emily we headed to the HI hostel, Emily insisted we got a taxi and she was afraid of it getting dark and being with all the druggies! and she had the laptop in her bag and it was showing...Steff told her to quicken her pace and a millon swear words went through Emilys head (i'm sorry but Steff is annoying sometimes!) 10 minutes into the journey back Steff said "we shoulda got a taxi" i was like grr right we should of got a taxi!...i was not in a very good mood...tired and thirsty and feeling like i could rip her head off!....we then got to the HI Hostel where we were met by a bunch of drunk people who walked off with our suitcases while we were checking in...only for it to be returned by a sensible young man...we were not very impressed...Steff was raging! going mad and calling them a bunch of thiefing gypies it was very very funny to see her go red with madness...they just laughed at her!...they were only playing it wasn't like they were actually gonna steal our luggage....They walked us to our room where they managed to steal our room chair and replace it with a linen basket! it wasn't very funny.....It took me like half an hour to get logged on to the network!...and tomorow we are going to look around..so its goodnight from me!!

Don't Arrest Us!

We awoke in the middle of the night due to a woman talking in her sleep, it was very freaky and we both couldn't get back to sleep. In the morning we set our hearts on plans to go back to Banff for a day trip. We were stoped in our thoughts and the buses were not regular and we had missed the earliest one!. So what to do??? we got ready and then we decided to hitchhike to Lake Marine. We got a lift and not ten minutes after we set off, we got pulled by the police. There was 3 of us in the front seat with no seatbelts on, the copper came to Ems window and said "gid day mam", he asked Em if there was any reason why she wasn't wearing a seatbelt. She was struck dumb, she couldn't remeber how to talk. The copper preceeded to give the lady driver a lecture on why her bundles of joy weren't wearing a seatbelt, repeadtely calling her mom. He asked our ages and was quite taken back when we said we were 18 and 20 and not related to the woman at all. This did not spoil our day, it provided us with laughs for the rest of the day. We went to lake marine with Tammie, "our mother", altho she was only ten years older than Steff.The Lake was blue like pepsi...and it was glittering with the rain, it was very beautiful. On our way we had to slam the breaks on cause a baby bear cub ran across the road, we were quite glad we never saw the mother bear!...Steff would of pooped her pants!....we then left to go back to the hostel, where we met some girls and played monoply and uno and different card games, we then got nachos!...and felt lazy for not walking anywhere today!....

If you get chased by a bear..you might need to change your underwear don't worry be happy..(8)

Haha, today is Canada Day wooo!, we awoke this morning with the thoughts of free food and drink...however we were so wrong. We woke up half an hour after the free pancake breakfast and we were gutted but there was free cakes at the reception desks so we gobbled up the whole plate! you can't put free food on a desk and expect the scottish to ingnore it!..haha, they were delicious!. We then went for a hike to Lake Louise which took us an hour and fifteen minutes even tho we wnt the wrong way, the woman behind the desk said it would take an hour so we were like yay!...but we were also gutted cause we had packed our swim suits and wanted to do the annual dive into Lake Louise but we were also late for that and arrived when it had just started!...to get to Lake Louise from the hostel we had to go through a "bear-zone"...(we saw no bears! thats probably because they had heard mine and steffs horrible singing(we were singing at the top of our voices to scare them away)....we took a walk around Lake Louise! its beautiful!...the lake was like blue! and i was speechless...we decided to get some lunch at lake louise but thought twice about it and decided not to (cause prices were over $50 for like a meal), there was a BBQ on at Lake Louise but it cost $25!!!!!! so we decided to go back to the hostel, on our way we heard there was a cheapy BBQ for $6 so we headed to the BBQ!...we were shocked! it was like going back in time, everyone was younger and there was lots of screaming kids around, i had flash backs of dollar gala, it was exactly like that...we felt awkard so we quickly gobbled down our burger and drinks and went back to the hostel. We saw a man with dreadlocks standing infront of the door, he had his back to us and meand steff were staring at him like we regonized him (even tho we couldn't see what he looked like!) he turned around and looked at us funnily(probably because we were staring at him!) he said hello and we replied and steff went "who was that" and i replied at the top of my voice(so the guy would regonize us cause i instantly regonized him!) ITS SIMON!, he came over to us and was like "hey girls you came rafting? i was your instructor eh?!" and we got talking to him, it was so freaky we met him here...we never thought he was gonna be one of the people we would see again...it was a strange experience....today we are relaxing after 10 miles of walking and my feet are killing me!!!!!!!!.....there is a free bbq tonight at the hostel so we might eat and eat!! haha!