Trip to Sea-at-all! Greg cooks a Curry! Templetons!

So last week was a really good week. On Monday me and JP went on one of our walks around the harbor and had a chat. I need to take a camera some time and show you lot why its such a good walk. We stopped and had a Mc Flurry at Mc Donalds. I finished reading Tom Sawyer, which is a pretty darn good book, and I'm currently reading Huckleberry Finn. On Thursday Rosie and JP came over and I cooked them a shrimp curry, with coconut rice pudding for.... pudding. Afterward we went and had a couple of cocktails on Granville street. It was a really nice evening, the only downer being I now have an in growing toe nail, which was giving me a lot of jip that night. With all the sugar and shots in me I slept badly that night, but survived the Friday at work by drinking a lot of coffee, it was a tough day, but conner bought me my dinner that evening, so I got a joeys flat bread for the journey to Seattle, which I ate with some Mc donalds fries at the greyhound terminal. The greyhound was an experience in its self. The seats were all pretty comfortable, and the bus was impressively fast. I'm pretty sure it could have out accelerated my little Clio. But it has been a while since I had been above 20 miles and hour. The journey took longer than expected, as they don't account for border time at all, which took an hour. The states charge you $6 for your visa, which you have to pay is US dollars, me and Chloe didn't know this, but managed to blag $20 of an Iranian dude who didn't speak much English. I wanted to give him sweets with the Canadian currency we swapped it for, but Chloe wouldn't let me. 4 hours later the bus pulled into Seattles Greyhound station. After drawing out some cash, using my hand made map we navigated to the Green Turtle Hostel, which turned out to be a really nice hostel. Feeling pooped, we headed straight to bed. When we got up in the morning I consumed a huge free breakfast of two pieces of eggy bread, some pancakes, fruit, a cup of coffee, and a cigarette in the smoking room. We then headed out into Seattle. First stop:- The needle! We decided to take the monorail, which goes from downtown to the Needle, both were built at the same time. Its only a mile long, and has two stops and one train. It would have been quicker to walk, and it cost $4.50, so a bit of a rip off really. To get up the tower cost us $16 but it was worth it, the view was really good, and we had a coffee and a peanut butter bar at the top of the tower. We could see the water front from the tower and thought it looked a good walk, so we headed there next. It was a nice walk along a park area that had recently been renovated. After that we went to Seattle fish market and had a look round there. We stood outside the first ever starbucks, which was a complete non event, because being a starbucks, it looked like all the others. We also saw a guy do tricks with his parrot. Standard tourist stuff but it was good. After that we headed out on the Ferry to Bainbridge Island, a small island were Seattles upper middle class live if they want to be outside the city. We had a walk round as the sun started to set, then went to a restaurant, were it became apparent we couldn't afford any of the food. So we just ordered an appetizer and legged it. Chloe never finished any of her food, and I ate all of mine in .05 seconds so by this time Chloe had developed a look that meant I could devour any of the food she had left over. Once we got back we decided to get some pudding from the cheesecake factory, A kind of chain pudding restaurant, it was pretty tasty. We couldn't go drinking as Chloe wasn't 21, so we went back to the hostel. We were going to buy some booze to drink in the common room, so I asked some random hipster types were they had got there booze, and they offered us some of theirs. They were really nice, and we were joined by another American guy later on. We drank and smoked until around 1am, before retiring to bed. Good times. The next day we were leaving, so after another massive breakfast we packed up our stuff, moved out, and had a look around the downtown shops. After that Chloe decided the Aquarium would be a good way to use the last of our cash, and she was right. It was standard aqarium fair, but the largest type of octopus in the world lives in Seattle bay, so it was good to see one of them. It was up and moving around when we saw it as well, I have the freakiest video of it moving around. After that we got on the Greyhound at 3:30, after a brief stop for some tax free shopping and some border control capers, we were which finally dropped in Vancouver 4 hours later, only 1 hour later than it was meant to. On Monday I went to bed really early, and recovered from Seattle, I hadn't slept to well as we had a snoring fat guy in our room, and kept us awake all night. Then on Tuesday Me Rosie and JP went for a meal at Templetons. While chatting I consumed Veggie chilli with cheese and chips, and had a battered and fried mars bar for pud, it was bloody nice, except I didn't sleep to well that night, thanks to the 15kg of sugar going through my vains. This week the weather has started to get pretty cold. Canadians could take on the Brits when it comes to discussing the weather. They were all moaning, but to be honest I'm really excited. The mountains are starting to become snow capped now. Plus I've been eyeing up some scalfs and hats. I'm looking forward to A bitter winter.

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Kirsty- "Greg, were did you say you were from?"
Me:- "Oxford, England"
Kirsty:- "Whats it like there?"
Me:- " Really nice, and only two hours from London"
Kirsty:- "Want to get married in Vegas? I want that visa.'
me:- "Well I'm free next weekend...."

Good ol' Kirsty, one of the few servers I get on with. The others tend to talk about girly stuff that I don't understand, like clothes and shit. And have an annoying habit of saying "eeeeewwwww gross!" when ever a small amount of ketchup falls on them.... while I'm practically bathing in the stuff.

At the Candian border:-

Border lady:-"Were have you come from?"
Me:- "We've come from Vancouver Canada:
Border lady:- "... I don't think you have, unless I woke up on the wrong side of the border this morning"
Chloe:- "We've come from Seattle"

I was pretty sleep deprovated thanks to fat snorry man is my excuse.