Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Leaving a cloudy Seattle we began our journeys once more, first stop Canadian customs..it was fine we were just questioned how we knew each other and so on. so after that little tail back we were moving once more.like all the other places i didn't know what to expect of Vancouver but had head some great things about the place. We as usual wondered around downtown for the day taking in the sights...before we knew it we had just walked onto Hastings street which was completely populated by homeless/street people..it was weird like as if we had just literally stepped from one scene in a film to another.....i was told later that the amount of homeless people doubled there between 2002 and 2005 and is now estimated to have approximately 2,600 people on the streets...very strange and sad seeing such a thing...needless to say we high tailed it outta there in no time. after a while we found ourselves at the Coal Harbour (deliberately) where all the boathouses were and rather nice yachts were docked also...i think i might put one of those on my list to go with "sleepless in Seattle" boathouse :)
While in beautiful Vancouver we rented bicycles downtown and cycled around Stanley park. we saw the traditiional totem poles and other wonderful sites on the bike ride even a sprinkling of rain which was the first time in 3weeks for me, thats long. Oh and living the traditiion of being me i went and did myself an injury on that bike ride by slipping off the bike and ripping my foot to pieces..i should have known to wear runners..it is me afterall..Miss accident prone herself!! :) but sure it could have been alot worse, i could have ran a duck over...oh wait maybe i did that too!
