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Day 32-
XMAS EVE- had a lazy morn this morn and Skyped both the parents for NZ Xmas day! Was good to see everyone but very jealous of both invercargill and aus sunny Xmas days! Wend and picked Kiel up then drove back to hotel to park up. Went out for a nice lunch to an Italian restaurant then had a look round downtown Vancouver. Ended up going to the Scotiabank theatre to see the Hobbit again with Kiel to kill some time in the afternoon, absolute rookie error cause as we got out of the movies we went to go to the supermarket but everything closed at 6pm Xmas eve! EVERYTHING! Couldn't find a bloody food shop or store that was still open so b*****ed that up, should've gone to movies later on! So drove round looking for somewhere to eat for bout an hour, ended up having romantic McPhee Xmas eve dinner at McDonald's! Started getting worried nothing was gonna be open for Xmas day lunch now possibly may be a MCDs Xmas as well :(
Mr and Mrs McPhee xo
Day 33-
Christmas Day - MERRY XMAS! Great start to the day today woke up and opened all our presents we got from Reeses family, who went absolutely over the top and gt us so many presents and a stocking so that we didn't feel left out being orphans for Xmas! Emm got a nice Tiffanys necklace, forever 21 voucher, smash box makeup, Michael Kors make up bag and lots more! I got a sweet Pittsburgh penguins game jersey, hat, tshirt, coach toilet bag and more! Very lucky! Spent an hour on the Internet and phone ringing places tryna book us in for Xmas lunch with no luck ! Ended up going and picking Kiel up then just driving round downtown but still nothing was open except subway! Was gonna be a turkey and cranberry footling at this stage. Ended up finding a place close to kiels called white spot that was open for charity all day so had a great big turkey lunch was real nice, except they didn't serve booze as was for charity, we just survived. Went back to the hotel and had a few beers and played some drinking games then Kiel went and met his mates while we went to Reeses for Xmas dinner! Poor Reeses moms oven broke down and she couldn't cook anything so they had to head to the border to pick up meat etc, she sill put on a crazy amazing amount of food and dessert! Was great to have a family Xmas, very spoilt! Off to sleep now before braving the Boxing Day shopping sales!
Mr and Mrs McPhee xo
Day 34-
Had a fun day today, Reese came round early and met us at hotel then headed off to face the crazyness of Boxing Day shopping! We wandered in to town and caught the sky train into the Metrotown shopping centre! Holy s*** I have never seen so many people in one place at a time in my life, and they were all f'in crazy. A lot of the shops were open but had there doors closed with people lining up like airport lines out front and people couldn't go in til enough people left. Some lines would've take an hour to get in and when you finally did there was b***** all left on the shelves! But anyways we persisted and did get into the shops we wanted and got some killer bargains, so stoked to have more stuff to try fit in our suitcases to take home! From there we went back into downtown and had some lunch then CJ (Reeses mate who came and stayed with us in Noosa and co inventor of Beersby) came and picked us up. CJ works for the Vancouver police in the emergency response team which is basically like an elite SWAT team so took us back to his work and showed us some unreal things like a fully armoured tank like truck and heapsa the guns and weapons they get to use, had a massive amount of job envy. After that did a bit of sight seeing round the city in CJs cop truck which was fun, luckily for him but unlucky for us didn't get to see any live action.. Quiet night in tonight before big day of hockey and Scotty P arriving tomorrow!
Mr and Mrs McPhee xo
Day 35-
Had a big sleep in this morn didn't get up til bout midday! Wet and had breakfast/lunch brunch with Emm at a awesome Cafe Crepe place which had thousands of diff crepes both sweet AND savoury! Emm then went off shopping on her own for the day while I drove out to Reeses to pick up him and his brother then we went to the ice hockey rink to play stick and puck. This is where you can just rock up and skate with a just a stick and gloves and hit a puck round, some people play a pick up game we just shot around was heapsa fun. Stopped in at m favourite shop sportchek on way home just to do some more shopping, then went home to chill for a bit. We went out for dinner to the keg steakhouse with Reeses family was pretty nice place. Had a real nice prime rib there which was an epic steak. Dropped Emm home then went back out to the airport to pick up Scotty and Megan, they got through customs super quick. Finally back home and off to bed!
Mr and Mrs McPhee xo
Day 36-
We all got up early this morn and walked down to yaletown for breakfast, yaletown is this awesome lil street that's got the old brick and footpaths and is just like a street full of wee bars and restaurants, apparently all the swanky Richy riches live there. Picked up the nut from his place and then we drove to Gastown to have a look around. Ended up at a Mexican bar drinking coronas for a couple hours. Got our pic with Little Ben, a miniature version of londons big clock. It's some famous steam clock. We went back to the hotel and met up with Scotty and Megan's mate from uni Sean, great Jesus looking bloke. We then sat at the hotel drinking for a few hours before getting a couple of taxis to the Pacific Colliseum for the Vancouver Giants vs the Kelowna rockets, the local junior hockey team. For a competition of u20 was crazy professional, packed stadium with the big screen in the middle etc! We met Reese and his brother Ryan and his mate there, plus poon was back home so him and 3 of his mates came, total of 13 of us to a junior hockey game. Giants lost 5-3 but not before buying some more sports memorabilia! Went back to hotel and tried to hit the spa up but was bloody closed. Gutted. Off to whistler tomorrow!!
Mr and Mrs McPhee xo
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