Roberts Creek and Sechelt

Community spirit is what the town of Roberts Creek in British Columbia, Canada is all about. A large ground art mural decorates the landscape along the beach where children and adults donate their time and come out to paint this colorful work of art.....

The Gumboot in Roberts Creek where we enjoyed a London Fog. mmmm.......

Taking Toby for his nightly walk....

Granny and Grandad xo

Granville Island

Amazing little tea place...tea for Neo....coffee for me!!!

Homer Street, YALETOWN!!!!!

Well it sure is time for an update! We're 1 month in our new apartment today and we're both LOVING living so central....we're within walking distance of everything amazing!

They say a picture speaks 1,000 words so heres some pics.

The view from our apartment is AMAZING!...

the apartment building...

Quiet beers in the park by our house....

This is the sea wall just down the road from our house....

Monday night training session....

Here's what Neo and I got up to tonight. Neo's attempting to teach me Photoshop....

Big Boi - Sumthin's Gotta Give ft. Mary J. Blige

Big Bois coming to Vancouver!! oooooyeeeeah!!!!!

The 210 bus...the inspiration that led us to our new abode

Everyday we caught bus number "210" to downtown Vancouver...a 45 min trip.

Our down town bus stop....

Passing time on the bus....

Our North Van apartment up until 1st September

We came home late one night and a skunk was blocking our path!....We were too scared to go around it incase it sprayed us!....ewwwww.....that would be gross. It took us a good 5 mins of yelling from a distance to scare it away!

The backyard:

The lounge and kitchen:

To the river...

The walk down to the river....

This is "bedrock"...an area of Lynn Canyon created over time by the locals; they've made lounge suits and a coffee table out of the rocks...complete with a decorative fish! The perfect living room if you ask me...till winter comes anyways!

Ryan, Neo & I

The local Lynn Valley skate park

Deep Cove

This is around where my Mum grew up.

SUPER BEAUTIFUL!!!

Putting a new spin on "hump day"....

The PNE (Pacific National Exhibition)....woop woop

The PNE is kinda like the Christchurch Show but WAAAAAAAY cooler!...pretty much like 150 times cooler!

Neo managed to talk me into going on the screw driver roller coaster...I was totally terrified...Neo claims I was crying....but the wind was just in my eyes...OK!!!!!

Here's some snaps:

I little chill out spot to take some time out from the crowds...

A very very old school roller coaster....No this is not the one I went on....heeeelllll noooo you would not get me on this wooden thing with a cart rolling around it!

There were some pretty sweet sand castles...here's a couple of my faves!

What a weird feeling....

I'm sure it's waaay weirder for all you guys in Christchurch but here's THE earthquake from our perspective.....

So we've just moved into our new apartment and are SOOO happy....life couldn't be better and then I'm on Facebook reading all this crazy stuff like "is your family ok?", "that was scary" etc. and I'm like WTF, what's going on? so I check the trusty stuff.co.nz and read about this huge ass earthquake in Chch...I'm like....freaking out at this stage. You feel so helpless being over the other side of the world! It was insane seeing pictures of Chch with knocked down buildings and I'm a little sad that Chch won't be quite the same when we return from overseas. I was happy to talk to my family and friends and here that you're all safe...for those of you I haven't spoken to; hope you haven't had too much damage and you're all safe.

It's all over the news over here FYI.

Love you all

Ness and Neo

Getting settled in Vancouver

So we've spent the last few weeks back in Vancouver finding jobs, and a semi permanent place to live. All has been panning out pretty well for us.

We're currently living in a basement suite in Lynn Valley which is in North Vancouver - it's really pretty here but a little far out from where we're working so we have just found a KICK ASS apartment in Yaletown which is down town so fully central. We move in 1st September and we're both totally amped. It's on the 13th floor and has a WICKED view of the city, the building has an amazing gym, swimming pool and sauna and the best bit is....wait for it....(Nomey you're gonna love it)....a laundry room JUST like the one on Big Bang Theory, so can't wait to do some laundry...be warned I will be posting pics of the laundry room!

So on the job front....I am working at a restaurant called Milestones, it's on Robson St which is the main street in downtown Vancouver...it's where all the action is and I'm also working at Lush which I LOVE!!!!! everybody knows how much I love Lush products so this is an awesome job for me...it doesn't even feel like I'm working when I'm there!...part of the training is testing out the products...NICE!!!!!

Neo is working at the Gap clothing store also on Robson street, hence why we need to be down town.

Bonus just came through from work = awesome!

We're looking at getting a car so we can start road tripping it up!

Life is good!

xo