We just moved to Vancouver (yay!), and I dislocated my ribs (doh!).

The first and good bit…

If you’ve been following our story so far I’d like to thank you! No doubt, you’ll be friends and family from back home, or someone who’s just amazing and interested! Who ever you are, thank you.

You’ll be pleased to hear that my blog will now begin to get VERY INTERESTING and truly begin because guess what – we finally made it.

On Wednesday 19th July we set off at 4:30am with my Mum and Dad to head on the long journey to Gatwick Airport. I tried to snooze but couldn’t. I really can’t sleep whilst travelling on any form of transport usually and I guess it was a mixture of being excited, apprehensive and also feeling sad about saying goodbye to my lovely Mum and Dad.

I had to say a rather quick goodbye to Mum and Dad as I felt so sad leaving them and didn’t want to drag it out or cry too much. Its very hard saying goodbye to the ones you love, especially when you’re moving so far away so thank god for Skype and WhatsApp!

We flew with WestJet from Gatwick to Vancouver. Our tickets were £388 per person direct, with the flight time being at 10:55am British time, landing in Vancouver at 13:05 Vancouver time. Pretty good times!

We got off the plane and my god it was HOT! The great thing about this area of Canada is that the Summers are so fantastic and most importantly consistent. You can trust the forecast here unlike in the UK – you have to pack for all weather back home!

The bad bit…

I’ve always struggled with my bad back, and unfortunately it got the better of me this week. Over the weekend Willow and I popped on our backpacks and headed for a great weekend in Vancouver (blog post to follow). I was feeling quite a lot of pain over the weekend but thought hey, power on – SILLY ME! Tuesday we went into the Coquitlam Centre Mall to hunt for some cool apartment accessories and essentials to be delivered next week when we move in on the 31st July.

However, the days were ruined as I was suddenly in such pain I couldn’t breath or even talk! I managed to find an Osteopath who helped me, saying I’d done some serious damage to the back left side of my ribs dislocating them. Apparently its the 3rd worse pain in the whole world and I can vouch for that! So, thats why this post probably isn’t the post you’re expecting. I’ve been trying to rest up and feel better as tomorrow we’re going into Vancouver to watch the Festival of Light. So things should get much more exciting as of now…

Em x