On Vacation!!!

! Today's adventure was the Vandusen Botanical Garden.  Dane got us through the maze. We saw a lot of birds, butterflies, and dragonflies. In addition to ducks, fish, and a coyote.  After the gardens we checked out a few anime shops and then headed to our hotel to relax before our travel home tomorrow. 

This morning we ventured out to the Pacific Museum of Earth.  It was not a big museum, but it had quite a few rocks and minerals and a Lambiosaurus.  Then we headed out to Jericho beach Then we went to go check out the Grandville Island Public Market. it was crazy busy and not a parking spot in site, so we decided to keep on trucking and headed back to our hotel to rest and relax.  Remember you can find all of our photos here.

Today we drove 20 some miles south and visited Blaine, Washington.  Wr had lunch at the Gateway 1890. It was a pretty cool restaurant with a lot of history.   We took a walk down the street overlooking the water and harbor and then drove out to Seimiahmoo Park where we found the APA Museum. "The Alaskan Packers Association" We learned even more about the salmon industry and the history of the canning process.  Then we went for a stroll on the beach. And then back to Canada for the night. 

We started this morning with our last breakfast on the cruise ship. When we disembarked, we stashed our luggage and hiked over to Stanley Park. Vancouver has a great walking path along the water. Vancouver has their own version of the Little Mermaid, the girl in a wet suit. Sorry, we are partial to the original in Denmark, but we still had to hike over to check this one out.  We checked out the collection of totem poles and then went to the Aquarium.  The aquarium had a temporary exhibit of Monsters of the Abyss.  After the aquarium, we made it back to grab our luggage and headed out of downtown to pick up our car and check into our hotel.  This evening has been a bit of work and lots of laundry at our hotel. We plan to take it easy this evening and pick up the adventuring again...

Dane has been busy with his art on this trip " To explain the last one..  On our first night in Vancouver we were given a welcome letter at the Pan Pacific that gave us contact information with who to call of we needed anything, including help finding lost pet goats :).  This was a truly remarkable experience.