We woke up this morning bright and early around 4 am and were at the airport by around 5. Our plane was scheduled to leave at 7 am, so we had a quick breakfast at Burger King (damn airport prices lol) and then we finallly boarded the plane at around 6:30. Unfortunately, due to some mechanical issues we weren't able to leave on time. We took off around 7:45 and had a nice, smooth ride. Our plane landed around 11:30, an hour and a half later than our scheduled 10 am. But that was the least of our problems...
After we finally left the plane and entered the airport, we stood by the luggage carousel waiting for our suitcases. And waiting...and waiting...and nothing. The carousel stopped spinning and we still had no luggage, along with a few others on our plane. Turned out that because of the snow some of the luggage carts weren't able to make it to the terminal so they were delayed a bit. Fortunately we were able to finally get them there.
We then headed out to look for the Airporter, a lower fare shuttle (compared to Taxis) that goes to all the major hotels in the Dowtown Vancouver area, which is where we were staying. The driver was really cool, very nice and friendly, reminded me of Hans, the tour guide we had in our 2005 Eurotrip. About the weather here...it was snowing non stop all afternoon and the whole city was covered in snow. I had never really seen anything like it....so we were in awe. It was a Winter Wonderland. Unfortunately, this also meant that traffic was moving quite slow. Turns out that despite getting quite a bit of rain here, they don't really get too much snow. But at least we got a mini-tour of the area as the bus wound it's way from hotel to hotel. We also got a glimpse of some stores having their Boxing Day sales, such as the Coach store which had a huge line of people outside. They're still doing a bunch of Boxing Day/Week sales around here. Who knows we may have to take advantage of a few sales. hehe
In the end, we ended up finally reaching our hotel at around 3:30, checked in, and then went to grab some food because we hadn't had a bite since the early morning BK breakfast. lol We were looking for a Subway but never found one, so ended up at a Numero Uno pizza joint, and had a couple of slices. Near us were a few other spanish-speaking people...so it was nice to see other latino people. hehe Once we walked back to the hotel, I noticed there was a Subway just about three doors down from our hotel! But it was in the other direction from when we left the hotel...so we missed it! lol
On our way back to the room we just grabbed a few snacks at a market and then took a short nap to recover a bit. After waking up around 9 we showered and got ready to head out and hit Davie St, the local gay neighborhood (a la' West Hollywood). While doing so, "Celine", the Celine Dion story, was playing on TV. hehe
We ended up at Numbers for our first night, a somewhat smaller 3 floor bar/club. We both had a couple of drinks and just danced all night! It was really fun, and the people are really friendly, especially this one guy that kept going around to everyone. He'd come by and hug us and tell us he loved our happiness and we were beautiful and loved to see us happy and whatnot. hehe He was quite the friendly guy. There were quite a few hotties too, and apparently we weren't half bad ourselves cuz we did notice we caught a few looks. LOL Nice to know we still got something at our age. hehe
So now we're just here chilling a bit before knocking out. It's 3 am. Tomorrow we'll figure out what we want to do...and most likely hit another club at night. We still have to figure out our New Year's plans.
Aside from a bunch of delays due to the snow at the start of our day, it was a pretty good day overall. The snow apparently is ending and we'll have more rain, but it's cool. As long as we have our winter apparel it's not as bad as we imagined outside, not even at night. :)
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