So this time in 50 sleeps I will be sitting in Auckland airport waiting for my connection to Vancouver after a 3.5 hour flight from Brisbane. After about 6-7 months of changing plans, ditching things, being convinced it would be a good idea to do something else and playing out loads of money, I finally have my itinerary set in stone...
On the 3rd Sept I will be departing Brisbane for Vancouver via Auckland on Air NZ and spending 5 nights in this Canadian city. I hope to head up to Grouse Mountain, go to the aquarium, see a Hamlet play at Bard on the Beach and roam the streets of Vancouver. Then I join my friend, her husband and young child on a 7 day cruise up the inside passage to Alaska where we will be viewing glaciers and hopefully whales & the Northern Lights (if we are REALLY lucky). From there I head to Victoria for 3 nights to take in that beautiful part of British Columbia before heading back to Brisbane on the 18th Sept.
My plans have changed and changed again. I was originally going to go via Christchurch so I could spend at least part of my mum's birthday with her but unfortunately airfare prices being what the are, it was a little too expensive to do that. So I am going to send her a HUGE bunch of flowers instead and now because of the prices of flights, I actually get 4 extra days in BC so I get to spend more time in Victoria rather than doing just a day trip from Vancouver! So I guess all in all it has worked out quite nicely - well for me anyway.. those at work will have to suffer without me for a few extra days... Which it looks like they will have to do for my next year's holiday too :) But more on that later...
I am really looking forward to this holiday. I have heard so many good things about Vancouver, Victoria and the cruise we are doing too. None of these places are really places that I MUST see or go to but I am looking forward to getting away and doing something different to the norm. I still need to decide what (if any) tours I am going to do in Vancouver but I think for Victoria I am just going to do the hop on hop off bus and also just booked a tour out to Butchart Gardens - which by all accounts is a must see place! In Vancouver I really want to go to the Aquarium and I have just purchased my ticket to go see Hamlet at the Bard on the Beach in Vanier Park... can't wait for that one!!!
I have also just booked a day trip to Whistler - I wasn't going to but then I figured.. if I didn't then I would probably regret it and when am I going to head back there again?? Anyway, it's done now so I can't take it back :D Other than getting hop on hop off tickets & the aquarium, I think everything has been paid for! So that's a bonus... all my money now can go towards spending money .. I am looking forward to this very much!
