I’ll skip the getting the train to Tara’s house on Thursday the 15th and getting delirious on wine and taking pictures of her dog in a fur coat…wheeeee!
Anyway, Friday 16th March finally dawned and we were off to Heathrow Airport- After deliriously blowing smoke in the bar for a few hours we boarded the 10 hour plane ride where we met the lovely Lia (A friend of Skater Dons we were told to look out for) and craved cigarettes…LOL. Luuurvely flight over the Artic- Tara got all ‘Environmental’ on me going on about all the unspoiled space and how the plane emissions were polluting it.
Anyway- Yay! Vancouver Airport at 5pm local time (1am Sat- To us still in a UK time void).
Through the customs and we picked up our luggage and thought we were so out of there--- Ohhhhh noooo!
Foot and Mouth Disease carriers ain’t we? LOLOL- Had to walk through disinfectant, swear that we didn’t have any joints (of meat-LOL) in our bags and that we hadn’t visited any farms recently- The only thing that kept us from going insane during the 2 hr wait was the thought of all the European Skaters, especially Diva Babs having to have done the same thing! Wheeeeee!
Anyway, finally got through and into the melee – Met Skater Don and Lia again and prepared to go to our Hotels (By all smoking 3 cigarettes in quick succession- YAY!)
Don wanted to get us a limo as a treat, but due to some POLTIK limo strike, we all had to pile into a taxi- Which had a crash on the way to the hotel! Yay! Very Voidy. Some idiot pulled into us on my side, Tara was convinced I should have sued. We were in North America after all.
Arrived at the hotel to another shock- “That’ll be $2700 please” …Huh???! No don’t you usually pay when you check out? Gawd- Anal or what. After a bit of bartering over the fact that another friend was arriving the next day- The anal Vivien was happy to take $1400 and then wait until the next day when we could get to a bank etc… She didn’t think that $1400 was good enough security to switch the telephone on in the hotel though!!! Bitch- Hatery Canada and I wanted to go home.
Cheered up when very porny and talkative Bell Hop took us to our room, Very pleased it was a smoking room – Yay! Blew lots of smoke and then Ulrike, a German friend who was staying with us that first night and had arrived earlier, got back from ice dance practice and gave us reports and then we all sat about in a bit of a void and Ulrike was going to bed when I said to Tara that it would be good for us to stay awake and just go and freshen up and go to the bar for a quiet drink- Hahaha!
So we went into the bathroom (Not together…LOLOL) Both peed laughing at the very low bath and the fact that the toilets in N. America look like they are flooded because they have entirely too much water in them, but I digress…..
So in the bar! Yay! ‘Can we smoke?’ …Oh nooo we couldn’t could we? Grrrr. So we sulkily ordered 2 Canadian Beers to toast our arrival and sat in a non perky mood for about an hour. Tara went out for a cigarette and then so did I. I ended up taking to some guy called Sherman who promptly scooped us into a delirious void sat with him and his girlfriend at the bar. To cut a long story short- There were a lot of Long Island Ice Teas (‘Give me something that’s Canadian other than beer!) and we went to bed after 30 something hours of no sleep where we woke up Ulrike; and Tara was hallucinating and we sort of passed out.
Yay! We luuurves Vancouver!
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