Merry Christmas

Had a wonderful Christmas day; spent the morning relaxing, eating and opening presents. Then went to my cousins for a lovely dinner. Hope everyone had a joyous day!

Breakfast; French toast and fresh strawberry smoothie

 Presents from Mum, Dad and Dylan

Presents from my cousins

 Lunch; beef kebabs with haloumi, capsicum and onion, and pesto pasta

Dinner; pork, crackling, beans, potato, sweet potato, carrot

Ginger bread men

American photo diary. Day 25:

Today was our last day of our amazing holiday!
For breakfast we went to Top Pot Doughnuts- I had the best doughnut I had ever had in my life.
The weather was lovely today, so we walked up to the Space Needle and we wanted to go to the EMP Museum about music, but we unfortunately didn't have enough time to really enjoy the museum without rushing. Instead we walked up the steepest hill in Seattle to Kerry Park, with a great view of the city.

We got to Seattle airport at 1:30pm, for a 3:00pm flight. In the airport, we had to catch a train to our terminal. We got to LAX airport around 5:30pm, and got on our flight to Sydney at 10:10pm Saturday night. Got into Sydney at 6:00am Monday morning.

 The place was so crowded

 Getting in Seattle spirit, with my umbrella socks!

 Space Needle up close

 From the museum

 Steepest hill in Seattle

Beautiful views from Kerry Park

American photo diary. Day 24:

Today was an action packed day, as it was our last full day in America. We woke up and had a big breakfast. We then walked to Pike Place Markets- it was raining. We saw 2 huge walls completely covered in gum. Completely cool, yet revolting. We went to Delicatus- a Seattle Delicatessan for lunch. When the rain stopped and sun came out (luckily), we went on a ferry! It was lovely. After the ferry ride, we went to the tallest building in Seattle, the Columbia Centre. The views were awesome. After this we went to the main shopping area in Seattle.

The lovely views from the ferry

 Views from Columbia Centre

 Columbia Centre

 Dinner

Space Needle

Canadian photo diary. Day 23:

Today was our last day in Vancouver, and Canada altogether!
We caught a small boat over to Granville Island. There were lots of nice markets and little shops.
We went for a 2km walk, and then caught the boat back.
We went to the bus/train station to catch our train to Seattle. We were supposed to have business class seats, but the train unfortunately had a derailment so we had to catch the bus. It took about 4 hours, and we crossed the American/Canadian border which was a cool experience. There were lovely views on the ride in. The sun was setting beautifully over the Seattle city sky-line.

 The boat we went on

 Granville Island view

 My delicious chicken, mushroom and cream pie

Canadian photo diary. Day 22:

Today we went on a walking tour around Granville Street and Gastown. It was really interesting. Then we walked all around town and looked through some shops. Another tiring day, probably walked about 10km again. For lunch we went to this place called meat & bread- the line was out the door!

 Buildings and sites around the tour

 Lunch

Dinner

It was our last night in Vancouver/Canada!