Well, this past weekend we decided to have ourselves a little adventure. I had some unused hotel points from the good old days when I traveled for work (which I miss a lot!), so we decided to cash them in for a weekend getaway to Vancouver, Canada! The drive wasn't too bad for being about 8 months pregnant, which I was happy about!
Thursday night we got to the hotel. So, in my family, sometimes when we go on vacation and if we'll have a kitchenette in the hotel room, we will take cereal, paper bowls, and plastic spoons with us to save on the cost of eating out. Then once we get to the location we buy milk at a local grocery store. Well, we decided to do the same thing on this short trip. So we went to the front desk and Matt asked where a grocery store was located. The girl looked at him like he was speaking a foreign language! And we felt dumb, till another employee and hotel guest chimed in and said "Oh, a Superstore!" We laughed about it and figured they don't use the word "grocery", but later during our trip we saw stores with the word "grocery". So we're still confused as to why the girl acted like she had never heard the word before!
Friday morning we went to the LDS Vancouver, Canada temple to do a session. I wish we would've taken a picture to actually document us being there. It was a first for both of us to go through a session in a foreign temple. And this one was SO beautiful! I loved it!
After the temple we went to the main attraction of our trip. The Capilano Suspension Bridge! It was a lot of fun and very beautiful! (I'll try to not put too many pictures! But like I said, it was really pretty so we got carried away with the camera and the nature shots.)
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| The trees were huge! |
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| The bridge. It's surprising how much it actually sways. |
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| Matt may have been trying to make people lose their balance as they walked across... |
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| I just love all the green trees! |
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| They also had a "Treetop Adventure". Smaller bridges through out the trees. |
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| We spent 2-3 hours walking around. |
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| This refers to the picture up above. Like I said before, HUGE trees! |
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| Matt's span is about the same as the Canadian Goose. The really long one is the span of an eagle. |
After the bridge we went to Stanley Park. This park was huge! We made a stop at a look out to enjoy some scenery. We got there and saw Meeko!
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| Meet Meeko. He was just going along in broad daylight minding his own business. |
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| When all of the sudden he heard something... |
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| And along came Crazy Eye! |
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| Crazy Eye hissed and scared Meeko away. |
We thought it was weird these raccoons were out in the middle of the day.
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| I'm pretty sure Crazy Eye had rabies. |
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| The beautiful view of North Vancouver from the lookout! |
Well, after Stanley Park we drove through Downtown Vancouver. Really, it reminded us of Seattle or any other big city in the U.S. It didn't feel so much like a foreign country. But we did get lost driving around downtown; best way to see a city is to get lost. :) (I had directions from the hotel to each location, just not from the location back to the hotel...)
I don't know if we were staying in the wrong location, but it seemed kind of hard to find nicer restaurants to eat dinner. All we kept seeing were American fast food places. Maybe we should've just asked the hotel.
Saturday we headed home. It was a nice little adventure before the baby comes! And I'm pretty sure Matt didn't mind having a reason to take a day off work.
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| There's just something about coming home to the U.S. |
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| Saw this on the drive home and thought it was a pretty interesting name... |
