Jet Hopping, And The Trip Begins..

Yep, year 2009 has just gone and everyone is welcoming year 2010 with a big heart. While i am still fighting my battle with the cold bug, i feel much better now. All thanks to Panaldo Cold! Just like its tagline, clears you up fast!

My family managed to pull a 12 days trip to Vancouver, London and Paris as a way to say bye bye to year 2009. It is never an easy task to travel in a big group of 8. You will need to spend twice on cabs, food, accommodations, basically anything but the fun was twice as much too.

"Daughter-in-law" said my dad to the London Immigration Officer! *Shy*

We begin our trip from KL in the evening of 18 dec only reaching Vancouver airport on the 19 dec. Bear in mind that Vancouver time zone is one day behind of Malaysia/ Yep! That is right! We have flown from KLIA to Abu Dhabi to Heathrow to Vancouver airports for approximately 48 hours before we managed to reach Vancouver. It was terrible! Especially all the airports were full with people due to the holiday seasons.

Oh no! 10 hours transit time in London and we are only starting!

The fun thing though about having a big group is sometimes we are given the chance to experience things that otherwise we will never thought of. Just like hopping into a limo to get us to the hotel! Good for 8 passengers, 6 huge luggage bags, 2 hand carries and 1 stroller. It was great to be able to experience sitting in one. And the best thing was, it wasnt that expensive after all. It cost only 90 canadian dollars which is about RM270 compared to the KIA Van we had to take when we were back. The van was dirty and old and we had to pay RM200 for that! Duh!

Black Limo! Woohoo!

Free water anyone?

A very tired me after the 48 hours jet hopping...

Now Vancouver is about 16 hours behind of Malaysia which makes it a day behind Malaysia. For the whole trip in Vancouver, we are slept at 8 or 9pm only to wake up automatically around 5 or 6am. What do we do then? Since we can no longer sleep, we had no choice but to beat the cold and geared up with lots and lots of warm clothing and begin our day by having continental breakfast to start the day. After much considerations, we decided to go to the Vancouver Aquarium in the first day. Weather was not that welcoming thought. It was gloomy even in the morning and starting to pour around noon.

Do we look alike? Hehe

Piranhas!

Like i said, the weather wasnt welcoming and it poured rather heavily by evening. We had to end our tour and head back to the hotel. And since we were so lazy to go out for dinner, we went to the 7-eleven around the corner and did what most Asians love to do! We bought cup noodles and canned soup and ate them as dinner.

One of the greatest invention of the century!

Where's my soup???

And as you can guessed, by the time the clock ticked 9pm, we were all asleep....