Wednesday 6th May - from 'Confused of Vancouver'

I am now blogging from Vancouver. We have been on the go for over 28 hours, most of which time was spent travelling, Air New Zealand to Sydney then Air Canada to Vancouver. We have settled in to The Howard Johnson Hotel in downtown Vancouver. It is OK - not plush nor a skyscraper type building that most other hotels seem to be - but clean, and fortunately we have a room at the back of the building because road/sidewalk works are going on in the front. Our guess is that the city is being tarted up for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

We do not, at the moment, feel too tired so we will have a quiet afternoon, eat early this evening and fall into bed early. The flight passed fairly quickly. Terry had a few hours sleep but I only managed to catnap occasionally for a few minutes at a time. We have ‘gained a day’ as we crossed the international dateline so I feel totally confused time wise - we actually landed in Vancouver before we left Auckland. I had just got used too being 11 hours ahead of the UK in NZ, now I am 8 hours behind!