Vancouver Experience

Currently I'm sitting in Hotel Vancouver - a lovely Fairmont property relaxing after being a bit of a tourist here in Van, walking around enjoying the city life at night. It is dead outside and I love the feeling of the cold city and the bright lights. When I first got here 3 months ago I was in Vancouver for about 2 hours and only stayed at the airport then drove through it for about 20 minutes to get to the highway!

Today sort of ended in a strange way. Yesterday my roommate Tiffany said she had to go into Vancouver for a doctors appointment and would I like to come. "WOOOOOO hells yeah!" is what I said, and now here we are in our hotel room. Justin, Tiffany's friend from Scotland who worked at the Fairmont in Whistler over the summer is here with us too. I've got a whole bunch of pictures we took tonight and there will be more tomorrow too.

We are going to stay here tonight and tomorrow as well. It is relatively cheap - $99 /night split between three of us...and any of the food and beverage outlets we get 50% off...so needless to say...I had a big steak meal tonight and a lovely martini for only $25 plus tip! It pays to work for Fairmont! I have a week off (because the hotel isn't too busy right now) so I thought I might as well make the most of it as I had been working A LOT the past two weeks!


Here is Tiff crashing out on the bed before going downstairs for our HUGE meal!


Justin creeping through the curtains after checking out our view.


Our mini bar which is billed to the room as it is weight sensitive and knows when you've taken something....kinda creepy I've got to say....


This hotel was one of the original Canadian Pacific Hotels and this is a picture of the mail chute! They say this place is haunted....we'll have to see in the morning....


Our martini's - Tiff got a Lychee one and Justin and I both got something called "Million Dollar Legs"- which is chambord, malibu and pineapple juice - it was DELICIOUS!


My steak ....didn't like the steak or the Yorkshire Pudding...but the mash and veg were great! (Tomorrow we get to go to Fairmont Gold for FREE and have breakfast there...oooh the perks of working for Fairmont. They REALLY do treat their employees well! - Thanks Tiff for hooking that one up!)


Justin in front of another Fairmont hotel in Van - the Waterfront (there are 3 hotels currently in working order for Fairmont in Vancouver and one more on the way).


The countdown to the Olympic Opening Ceremonies clock!


The Vancouver Art Gallery at night. Really really interesting spin on the Canadian flag.


This is sort of an inside joke...I actually thought this was a store that sold rocks...turns out it was some sort of museum HAHAHA It boggled my mind in the short span of me thinking that it was a rock store of how this store could make enough money to be open!

Thats all for tonight. More tomorrow!

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