The Adventure begins!

It is now day 2 of Aaron and my adventure starting in Canada. First we flew to Sydney with QANTAS for a 6hr stop over then flew to Vancouver with Air Canada which took around 14hrs. We had a two hour stop over in Vancouver where we took 30mins to get through Customs, 20mins to get our luggage (thank goodness it all turned up!) then 40mins waiting in immigration for our work wisas... which led to us missing our flight to Calgary.. Aaron was freaking out but I knew there was a flight that was leaving an hour after ours that we could go on as Steve, who I sat next to on the plane, was catching that flight. He warned me that we were pushing for time with the flight we were originally scheduled for. He was very nice, used to live in Australia but had been living in Canada for 25 years so his accent was funny. He invited us to his place in Saskatoon over the winter and he could take us on his snow mobiles! He has two daughters my age so we might just have to pop over there for a visit!

So eventually we got to Calgary and had to wait outside in line for a taxi and OMG IT WAS -14 DEGREES!!!!!! I knew then that we were in desperate need of more warm clothes! The taxi ride was $40 to our hostel HI Calgary 520 7th Ave (its funny they dont have street names they just number them!)

We went shopping at The Bay where I bought some Ugg boots for $300 but it was so worth it! My toes dont go numb anymore like they did when I was wearing my runners. We went to MEC (Mountain Equipment Corporation) where you have to be a member to buy there. So we signed up for $5 and I bought some more heavy duty gloves, a neck warmer, two beanies, some thick socks for snowboarding and some goggles also for snowboarding.

We then went and applied for our Social Insurance Number which was easier than we thought it was going to be. It was harder finding the place! They will be sending our SIN card in the mail to Panorama in about 2wks time.

It was really hard to find a place to eat but we managed to find a subway for lunch (missed breakfast). I lost count of how many iced coffees Aaron tried... and there was nowhere for tea so we just had a hot chocolate next to the public library then went to bed..