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episode Week of October 12, 2008 Google Earth File for this Episode Monday
Over the weekend, we traveled to Vancouver, Canada. After a long flight we went right to investigating! Dewey had indeed arrived on a flight from New York City to Vancouver – yesterday. And then guess what happened? Last night Dewey was sent on another flight from Vancouver to Seattle, Washington. The strange thing is that none of the airline employees are certain why Dewey didn’t remain in Vancouver. Smells like trouble to me. Fortunately, Seattle isn’t very far from Vancouver so Meri and I can easily take a bus there first thing tomorrow. Right now we need to head to our hotel rooms and get some sleep. It has been a long day. Before we go to bed, we want to look at a map of the Vancouver and Seattle area. Check out this hybrid map (we attached the link below), it is so cool and combines satellite images with street names and even landmarks.
- Geo See the map Tuesday
This bus ride today is awesome – I am writing my blog entry while we travel. Wait until you see the beautiful pictures that I took of Vancouver. Vancouver has these gorgeous sculptures called Totem Poles (although Geo keeps calling them tadpoles. No Geo they aren’t baby frogs)! Anyway, these towering sculptures are carved from trees and are so amazing. I wish I knew how to make these beautiful works of art. Holy Idaho! We just had two enormous cruise ships sail by us in the distance. I didn’t know that Vancouver was a port for cruise ships. I have never seen one of those mega ships. On the bus we can hear people speaking French and English. I will be back in a moment; I am going to go research online about Canada.
Okay I am back, are you ready for this? English and French are the two main languages of Canada, and Quebec is mainly a French-speaking province. However, a lot of Vancouver’s residents also speak Chinese, German, Spanish, Punjabi, and Tagalog (Filipino). Holy Idaho! That is so cool that there are so many languages spoken in this area. Geo wondered why so many different languages are spoken in one area. I researched the facts and found out that the multiple languages spoken is because many people from Asia have immigrated from China and other Asian countries, making this area a multicultural mix not unlike New York. The yearly temperature in Vancouver is fairly consistent with the average highs only ranging from 42 degrees in January up to a comfortable 74 degrees in August. Okay, we are in Seattle now – we will write more ASAP. Pandora to us:: U 2 still on the east coast? J2lyk – I know u r in NYC. I wont tell- mlas. Us to Pandora: Yes, we were in NYC. Now we traveled NW. Cul8r We arrived in Seattle earlier today. We tried to go to the lost baggage offices at the airport to ask about Dewey, but they closed at 6pm. We will have to come back to the airport in the morning. Since we had some free time, we decided to explore this unique city. Seattle is located on the northwestern side of the USA. The weather here is a bit cooler than New York City, but only a few degrees. Today it was raining pretty consistently. Geo and I researched the weather for Seattle, and 50% of the days have some rain. Holy Idaho! According to our research, the rainfall is the greatest from October through May. The summers are surprising dry and comfortable. Today we went to see the Seattle Space Needle (see my picture below). We actually got to go up in the space needle and look at the city; it was amazing (Geo wouldn’t go close to the edge by the windows – but don’t ever tell him that I told you). I attached a street map of Seattle - take a peak. - Meri  Totem Poles in Vancouver  Seattle Space Needle See the map Wednesday
We arrived at the Airport and were excited to find out that Dewey was still in the lost baggage claim. The airline agent went back to get him and his crate and we heard a scream! We waited for what seemed like an eternity, finally the agent came out and said – “I don’t know how to say this, but the dog is gone.” I knew finding Dewey this quickly was too good to be true. The agent allowed us to go back to the baggage claim storage area where Dewey’s crate was. We searched for clues, and found nothing! As we were leaving the baggage claim storage area we came upon a custodian picking up a ton of garbage. We decided to take a moment to help him out. He asked us if we were the teenagers looking for the dog. Then he handed us a driver’s license that he had found in the wastebasket – he said that he saw the person on the license running away in a big hurry (with a dog that was identical to our picture of Dewey). Holy Idaho! Dewey has been taken! His name was Claude Equator. His driver’s license was issued in the city of Vancouver! I don’t believe it – we were tricked. Now we have to go back to Vancouver. How should we travel this time? We could call for a personal driver (and start traveling immediately). Our second choice is to wait until tomorrow afternoon and take the next flight to Vancouver. Our third and final option is to head to the train station and jump aboard the 7pm train BACK to Vancouver. What do you all think?
- Meri Tell Geo and Meri what to do: Links to learn more : Seattle
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