Vancouver

Monday, August 7, 2006

We didn’t leave the hotel until almost noon because we had so much sleep to catch up on. We stopped at Starbucks and then bought tickets for the “Big Bus, hop-on, hop-off bus tour.” The tickets are good for two days and the busses hit all the major tourist attractions. We plan on this being our main mode of transportation for our stay.

Our first stop was Granville Island where we looked in many of the shops, wandered the public market, and had dinner. We also watched some of the musical entertainment and saw dozens of sailboats motoring by. The weather yesterday and today has been beautiful. Warm and sunny. It’s a far cry from the first day that we were here a week ago.

We spent all day there and finally caught the last tour bus home at 5:00. It took about an hour, but it has a recorded dialog and was scenic, also since the weather was nice and the bus was open-topped, we were happy.

Back at the hotel, we took a nap and then went for a walk down Robson street (the shopping street) and eventually stopped at a Thai restaurant for dinner. We got the two-person prix-fixe menu which was quite good, although my Margarita left something to be desired. We took the left-overs back to the hotel as we have a fridge and there’s a kitchen for us to heat it up in.