Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Canada, EH!





































So, my husband afforded me the opportunity to get away with a friend for four nights and five days! We went to Vancouver, BC (hoping to get our passposrts stamped) b/c my friend had a free hotel stay for us at the Hyatt which is right downtown. It was beautiful and truly an experience. Our first night there we turned in pretty early and slept until our hearts content......8:30am. We filled our first full day with a trip to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. This was quite a feat for my friend because she is afraid of heights. It took a pep talk to get her across the bridge and then she wanted to be air lifted back. That did not work, so she resigned to walk and not stop. I included a pic of myself with her in the background not stopping. So funny! After that we proceeded to the "tram" portion of the trip on Stanley park. We rode this ski liftish thing up the mountain, had lunch and went to view the bears. I will say that the bears were held back with electric chicken wire. Not the safest thing if you ask me.




The theme through our trip was the search for all things "Bobbert". We are into the twilight series and as you may know, Robert (aka Bob, or Bobbert in our case) was the main character. We hoped to catch a glimpse of him as they were filming the second movie there recently. Unfortunately no Bobbert sightings, but we did see some people that may have belonged in La Push. We tried to be sly about taking a pic of them, but I think they saw us. While sitting at the beach, we smelled that you never forget once it has been smelled......pot. (Both of our childhood upbringing made that knowledge possible) We looked at each other and I said, "I wonder where that smell is coming from?" and with out missing a beat we both said, "La Push!" We were hilarious. If you are not rolling on the floor laughing I dont know what to say, that was some funny stuff!




Our favorite activity we did was to rent bikes and ride around the perimeter of the Stanley Park Seawall. It was beautiful and cheap. We rode for an hour and a half and it was only $10 Canadian. We later paid for this as our rear ends are yet to recover for being on a bike for that long. We got to see a lighthouse, houseboats, beaches and lots of people. This was a very diverse city and the streets were crowded Thurs-Sun. Our favorite restaurant that we ate at was called Elephant and Castle. The french fries were delish and so were the main dishes. We actually ate there for lunch on Sun and then went back for dinner. They had live entertainment and the music really made the atmosphere enjoyable.