Vancouver or bust!

Vancouver is only 175 miles (281 kms)  from Seatlle but we managed to make it 200 miles and an 6 hour trip!! Went to put my glasses on at start of trip and screw had come out - drove around looking for optician to fix - found one and bought a screwdriver - back to car - lost the screw - back to optician who fixed it. Uneventful trip to to the border of Canada. It was a gorgeous day and the border area has beautiful gardens and scenery which was just as well as there was a half hour delay. Once we got into Canada it was most interesting....to add to the driving on the other side of the road dilemma we are now in a car that has a speedo in miles but Canada works on kilometers so brain is trying to do instant metric calculations. As it turns out there was no need - there was an enormous traffic hold up and it took us over an hour to do the last 20 miles - couldn't have speeded (?) if I wanted to.  The first view of Vancouver is quite awe inspiring...it's the biggest city we have seen yet and all the high rise buildings are bloody high and all look very similar. Lots of huge bridges and a beautiful harbor add to the spectacle By this time it was Friday evening peak hour and there was lots and lots and lots of cars. Our Satelite Navigator wouldn't work in Canada and we got a text from our US phone providers saying we were now on roaming and all calls would be very expensive - upshot is we couldn't use the navigators in the I Phones. Result - we got lost - very lost! Also we had no Canadian money (oversight). They won't take US $$$$'s and won't let us use our travel cards as they are loaded with $US only.  We drove around (now 4.30 pm Friday) looking for a bank. We finally found one and had to change our last cash US money into Canadian $$$'s. Not a good exchange rate. We finally found our RV park after going over the same bridge about 4 times lol. Pretty unforgiving roads here - you make a wrong turn you live with it for some time. It seems we were about 2 miles from the park originally but we turned that sucker into 20 miles mwahahaha. Once again the traffic was horrific and the drivers less accommodating than the Californian ones. We finally got settled and flaked. bugs # 431