Goodbye Team Family. I'll miss you.

Thursday sees the end of an era with three-quarters of Team Family leaving Vancouver. Greg, Rosie and Piers will be heading off for a travelling adventure down the USA's west coast. I'm not sure what exactly is planned, in fact I'm not sure they know either, but I know Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles are scheduled stops. It sounds like an awesome trip and I know they'll have a great time. From there they all have their own plans and ultimately it means the next time we'll all be in the same country will be several months from now in the good old UK.

In the spirit of the occasion I thought it would be fitting to go through some of our highlights of the last 10 months. Plus I get to write it in bullet points.

- Meeting Greg for the first time. We were both sharing the same hostel room and came to the realisation that we were in fact the same people who had spoken on Facebook the week before. But not before one of the first things (in my jet lagged, hyperactive state) I said to Greg was "Nice sink. I wonder how many people have got up in the night and had a slash in it"

- After watching the fireworks on the beach at English Bay, the Mounted Police coming round and clearing everyone off the sand. Rosie's reaction to this: "Do we have to leave because of horses?"

- Just as I came out of the back room at work hearing a familiar English voice say "JP!" and turning round to see Piers. So strange that the last time the two of us saw each other would have been on a football field in Cambridge, then going for lunch in Vancouver.

- Christmas 2009. This was a highlight for everyone else you understand. How they managed to get to sleep on the floor of the living room I'll never know. Having the oven set to Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, the smoke alarm going off almost constantly, Greg dropping a full tub of pancake batter in the kitchen; the fun never stopped.

- The waitress in The Templeton constantly trying to predict our orders and getting it consistently wrong. Also that she seems to know Piers has a regular order even though he eats there the least out of all of us.

- Finding another regular venue in The Furniture Warehouse, sorry I mean The 'Famous' Warehouse. The reason we like this place is because all the food is under $5. If I had a dollar for every time I've heard the suggestion "Works Burger?" then I wouldn't have to sell games to teenagers.

There's plenty more; snowboarding, Erik's tour (the random old guy in the above video), gay bingo, Halloween, the list goes on. So I guess what I'm saying is it's been a great few months with you guys and I love you all. Except Greg since he dumped me on Facebook, the swine.

So we have the emotional goodbye drinks on Wednesday. It's going to be messy, isn't it?