Departure and Vancouver

Well, we arrived into Vancouver yesterday, after 26 odd hours of transit from melbourne to auckland to vancouver. watched beowulf, enchanted, sydney white, juno and ratattouie. sydney white and ratattouie are the only ones i'd recommend. we forced ourselves to stay up til about 9pm and then slept for about 13hrs.
Thursday we took the skytrain to town and caught the world's smalles ferry to granville island, where we checked out the granville island market which was really good, had heaps of good produce and food, much nicer than the vic market, no pushing, everyone gives way. crossing roads is really weird, pedestrians have right of way, in canada drivers dont like the half cross that we do in OZ. they stop and let you finish crossing, and at all intersections without crossing lights they will stop and let you cross. anyway from the market we walked to the major shopping district to get Fi some ski gear. after a major unscheduled detour (we walked about 2km the wrong way - i blame Fi) we found some nice stuff and headed home.
Sara and Westy met us at home then we headed into the city to watch the hockey. it was a sensational game, heaps of entertainment, svancouver scored 37 sec into the game (shorthanded) score was 6 -2, vancouver won, keeping their playoff chances alive, and there was a heap of fighting in the last 2 mins and a shite load of penaltys were given out, about 80 mins at a guess.

Beer is pretty pricey here, $22 for a 12 pack at the bottle shop and $8 a schooner at the hockey. checked out the granville island brewery which was pretty good. winner of the 2007 best brewery in BC. winter ale is good.
Got to get some sleep, some big days ahead of us.