.when you find out the road ahead of you is painted on a wall

debi here - so we arrived back in vancouver on monday i think, anyway we headed to the hostel only to find we'd only booked for one person, doh!! and they were full, so they arranged for us to stay at there other hostel on the beach about 20mins by bus out of town, so we'v been having a bit of a beach holiday for the last week or so and then moving into town on wed, which is good since we'r fed up geting the bus home after a night in the pub, not that we'v done much of going out at night. so we'v been hanging out on the beach, topping up the tans and trying a bit of skim boarding but generaly just chillin out in the sun

we managed to hook up with sol and milla for a couple of ciders in the sun






thats downtown vancouver in the background




we rented some skim boards and took to the water, they were offering lessons but after watching a couple of people doing it we reconed it must be pretty easy. took a while to pick it up but once we did we loved it, we'r doing it again tomorrow, it was soooooo much fun








we managed to encourage milla to come hang out with us on the beach with some ciders, unfortunately she had to carry all the ciders from town, poor thing, but we really apreciated it




you gota be sneaky with ciders on the beach as its illegal to drink outside and the police patrol the beach, we hid them well


there was another lovely sunset


we also attended spain and canada's entries for the fireworks competition, we went into town to english bay on sat to watch canada's attempt, id post pics but they never come out great and you all know what fireworks look like. this is us waiting for it to go dark, as you can see it was still very sunny


we even seen rod stewart, teehee


the sun finaly going down


on saturday we went to the world freestyle skateboarding comp, was well good, guys were skating old school on a flat bit of ground, we have a good vid of one of the best guys buy youtube is so rubbish these days we cant get it uploaded, might try again later, grr

and debbie bought some new shades, remember these from the 80's kids?


and some new headphones, looks like she slept in them


and here's a pic from our walk we went on today, along the beach and up to the uni which has a huge campus. there was a guy who drove his car of a cliff last week, it was in the news and as we were walking along the beach the police were having the car hauled away by a crane!


so thats the story so far, got loads more stuff to see and do before we head home, which is geting scarily close now (calm down i know your all very excited) so i recon you'l have maybe 1 or 2 more updates before you see our lovely tanned faces in the flesh

- yo its debbie kelly. i love vancouver so much. im bored of writing blogs so il tell all of you in the flesh. 22days !