April 9, 2007

  • OH CANADA (Part IV)

    Whistler to Vancouver
    Britannia Beach

    woke up early saturday morning and said our goodbyes... and we were off to the BC mining museum! it's on the way driving from whistler to vancouver...there's a HUGE dumptruck you just can't miss!  the steay rain continued throughout most of our trip so we were used to it by now... and going to the mining museum... forget about complaining!!!

    before we went all around...they had a whole wall of different shows and movies that had filmed there...course had to take one of 'the x-files'

    first thing we did was go straight to the HUGE dump truck... apparently they had to take it apart to bring it over there!  anyway.. it's HUGE!


    birthday boy standing in front of one of the wheels... and the whole thing... with pat for scale...
    next we proceeded to head over to the mine tour... which they just so happened to have that weekend!  we totally lucked out... had to put on our hard hats...and we were off....
     

    inside the mine... where the geologist marks an area for miners to drill....looking out

    the guide showed us some of the really cool tools they used... unfortunately there was a litttle kid so he didn't turn on one of the drills.. but oh well... the other stuff was really cool... and then we walked out....


    outside the mine...and the MILL

    inside the mill... it's just HUGE!  and i think it'd be kinda creepy at night...

    panning for gold... we found one! (our hands were freeeeeeeezing!)


    more cool exhibits


    one last picture of the MONSTER dump truck!

    we were STAAAAAAAAAARVING... so we drove back up to squamish realizing we def could not make it to vancouver without food


     blurry squamish sign b/c of RAIN!  whitespot for lunch....mmmm

    drove into vancouver, watched the ucla game, and went out to a pretty good thai restaurant...but SLOOOOOW service...

    the next day packed up everything, and went in search of food... saw this japanese ramen place, but when we went there we found out they didn't open till 12...decided to wait till they opened... we were the first ones in...and by 1210 the place was packed and a line already out the door!  so we were def happy with our choice!  and it was definitely YUMMY ramen...

    afterwards we headed to stanley park one last time before heading to the airport... FINALLY got to take pictures of the totem poles....


    and took pictures of the fallen trees from the really big winter storm... it was definitely crazy seeing these huge trees just broken in half! 
     
    it was a definitely a fun trip... at least i finally finished writing it up.. .like a month later! anyway... nothing really too exciting to report... but LOTS of SPRING CLEANING!!

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