Wow - what a bus trip. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to sleep on the bus, but it looks like I did ok. I kept closing my eyes and then a little later would look at my watch, happily surprised to see that another hour or two had somehow teleported past without me even knowing it. So I think I got a several hours sleep, but I don't think it was too deep. Anyhow, I'm not really a deep kind of guy so it all works out ok haha.
So I got into Prince George at about 8am, and was confronted by a whole town under snow. I've never lived in a city that was like this so I was rather scared and amazed. You couldn't walk on the footpaths because there was none, and I didn't want to walk on the roads, so I got a taxi somehow, and went over to the Visitor Information Centre and the lady there helped me out and showed me where heaps of the motels where. She also told me where to buy a day pass for the buses, which has proved to be one of the best pieces of information I've gotten on the whole trip. I've been cruising around on the buses (there are about 5 routes - and they all go round and round in a circular pattern) and exploring the rather big town that Prince George is.
Day 10 (Tuesday) was great I walked all over the city and it wasn't that easy as the footpaths had been cleared but it was still a bit slippery and patches of snow that hadn't been cleared made it a bit tricky every once in a while. I went and saw the Civic Centre, the Art Gallery, a Hockey Skating rink (no game on though dammit), and a few malls, and good stuff like that. I also found the towns indoor heated swimming baths. They were open till 8:15pm so I went over there at around 7pm and went for a swim. Brilliant! I entertained myself by bombing some poor Canadian kids who got too close to me as I came off the swing rope hehe, also off the diving boards and down the hydro/water slides a few times. hehe Not so much fun doing it by yourself, but I wasn't going to not do it just because I was alone. Felt really good and fresh after that too.
Then I went across the road for dinner at a place called Shooters. I actually went in there for lunch, and the service was quite bad, and the main bartender loved himself, and that just pissed me off even more. Anyhow, there was another bar right next door and so I tried to go in there but it was closed so I thought I'd just go back to Shooters and give the place another try (thinking that the lunch time bar staff wouldn't be there). I was right and the place was quite different with the 'uber' friendly evening staff, including one very cute little bartender with awesome eyes, (such a sucker for nice eyes) and other certain body parts as I found out later. I had a delicious pizza and then dug into some bourbons. Of course I was watching hockey with the locals in no time telling them how amazing the game is and trying to pick the Vancouver team as my team hehe. Had a great night thanks to one particularly cute bartender (mentioned above), so much for needing to go to the gym for a workout... damn! Also, didn't really have a hangover the next day due to my amazingly smart method of one alcoholic drink and one diet coke, then rinse and repeat. Thank god for no hangovers.
Anyhow - I think I have a few photo's of the town in the snow so I will upload them soon. Great day and enjoying everything!
Thanks for all the comments so far - I'm publishing all the nice ones :-)
Cheers
Matt
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