The arrest of three East Pictou Middle School students was the only option to protect a young male who endured weeks of bullying, said the operations commander with the Pictou County District RCMP.

“In general, if there is an alternative solution to judicial action available we’ll exercise that,” said Sgt. Law Power. “But in this particular case arresting these males was in the best interest of the victim and the school.”

How can you be serious about this news article when the policeman is called Sgt. Law Power!

Ant and I got back from the USA yesterday morning. My bodies a bit jet lagged at the moment. I feel perfectly awake, but my body feels like it should be sleeping. Very weird sensation.

We’ve had a great month and have taken in a lot of sights including: Fenway Park, Cheers bar, CN Tower, Rogers Center (Skydome), Niagara Falls, Space Needle, Pike Market, Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, Hollywood, Grand Canyon and many other places.

We did so much it’s going to difficult reviewing it all in one post, so I’ll try and make a series of posts outlining each location. What I can do in this post is list the locations in order of how I liked them.

My list goes as follows.
Toronto Everyone was friendly in Canada and we both felt safe when out and about. We were five minutes away from the CN Tower and the Rogers Center, which helped too!

Las Vegas Amazing place. Vegas had a great atmosphere and was one big party town. Most things never closed.

San Francisco Nice place to go shopping if you’re that way inclined. The streets are unique because they’re so hilly and all over the place. The Golden Gate Bridge is something worth seeing too.

Vancouver Like Toronto, everyone was friendly and you felt quite safe. Some lovely scenery and generally good atmosphere.

Boston Nice flat area of the US. The parks were all well kept and the streets were clean. They did nice seafood and the Cheers bar was good fun.

Los Angeles I really liked Beverly Hills. Some very nice houses, but definitely a city you need a car in.

New York Been several times before, but it’s always a bustling city. MOMA is a great gallery to visit.

Seattle Definitely a place I’d think twice about going back too. Far too many beggars and homeless and the space needle has too many tacky attractions like Brighton/Blackpool.

So we’re on our last evening in Vancouver, getting ready to greyhound ourselves into Seattle tomorrow morning. It could be an interesting journey as the lady we spoke to when getting our tickets said I-5 is currently undergoing construction and could add an extra two hours to our journey. Six hours on a coach, with Ant is going to be interesting!

We had a good walk around Vancouver today, we reckon we’ve covered about six or so miles. Don’t walk the wrong way into Vancouver, you find all the building sites and run down areas. Our initial thoughts were that Vancouver was a pretty rubbish place to go, but luckily we managed to get into the right part of town for lunch and things improved dramatically from there.

We stopped by a place called The Old Spaghetti Factory for lunch and we had a great meal. Three courses, including complimentary bread loaves before the starter and complimentary ice cream and coffee afterwards. All for a bargain price of £25 for both of us. Top notch service and a very friendly waitress who seemed quite interested in our little journey topped the lunch off.

Once Ant realised that we were actually going the right way, we had a mammoth walk around the shoreline all the way into Stanley Park. That’s where our journey ended, as we stopped for some water and an ice cream (not a Cornetto unfortunately, they don’t have them out here). We then walked back to our hotel taking in some shops where Ant was determined to buy a gay t-shirt.

We’ve got some entertaining photos that will form the content of later posts. But I shan’t spoil anyone too much by writing two posts in one day. That’s it for now.