March 20, 2007

  • OH CANADA (Part I)

    we just spent the week in Canada...Vancouver and Whistler.... It was my first time to those two places and only my second time to Canada... the last time was when i was in high school for a basketball tournament for like 4 days in December in Edmonton... brrrrrrrr... ANYWAY... the trip.....

    Vancouver
    we flew in Friday night...and with getting the luggage and then getting the rental car we didn't make it to our hotel until 11ish... by then we were suuuuuuuuuper hungry... and looking out the window across the street was a korean bbq place... so we decided to walk around to see if we might find anything to eat... found a small japanese convenient store called konbiniya.... they had little bento boxes and got a mini katsu donburi and pat got a larger beef donburi... it was the perfect amount of food and sooooooo YUMMY


    the next morning we woke up and headed over to this chinese restaurant that pat saw in the travel thing s you get at the hotels or from the rental companies... we had some REALLY good dim sum... maybe it's b/c we haven't had dim sum in awhile...but it was soooooooooooooooo GOOD!



    after dim sum we tried to find some things to do indoors since it was raining.... first stop was the telus world of science....

    this place was AWESOME!  they had all sorts of interactive things... puzzles...


    pat on a bike, keeping the ball above the red line....this one you have to jump and hit the button... and pat hit the 270 cm...i think it was in cm.. and i got 240

     

    of course there was area for rock samples... a whole section... and here's a HUGE microcline they had there...  and they had a dinosaur puzzle that was pretty difficult b/c the freakin' thing wouldn't stay together....video isn't very exciting...but didn't have a picture of it... so this was the closest thing..

    more cool stuff... giant hamburgers...funny mirrors...pulleys...fans...etc...

    afterwards we headed over to the vancouver aquarium in stanley park...

    the aquarium was really cool... like most aquariums are...but they had this one exhibit on the amazon... so we got to see these.....

     
    they also had some whale exhibits... a dolphin show....


    and more whales...

    one of the cooler things we happened to see was feeding time for the octopus...

    drove around stanley park and stopped off at prospect point and get a view for the lion's gate bridge...had some maple syrup ice cream...

    dried off at the hotel and met up with pat's family friend for yummy hot pot....packed everything up to get ready to wake up early the next morning..

Comments (6)

  • WOAH!! Cool Octopus!
    I'm totally jealous of your nerd days at the science museum and aquarium.

  • funnn. i wanna go to the science museum.
    poor whales. they should be freed. :[

  • that's the second biggest hamburger i've ever seen ...

  • In Dec. there was a really, really bad storm in Stanley Park that knocked down all the trees! It was the worst ever! They had to close down the park and clean it up. When I visited, they had just opened the park and there was so much traffic because everyone wanted to see the damage to the park. How'd it look to you guys?

  • I'll show more pix of Stanley Park in part 3.... yeah.. .the trees... a TON were knocked down!

  • Dude... those science museums are always the best!

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