Hello everyone,
I’m
currently in Vancouver, Canada for the next few days. My mom, brother
Joe, and myself are on another road trip this summer. We are spending
some time exploring the land of our Northern neighbors before we embark
on an Alaskan Disney Cruise this Monday, July 3rd. If you don’t know,
and how could you not, I’m a gigantic Disney fan and am ecstatic to go
on this magical cruise for a week. But for now, let’s see what Canada
has to offer.
We arrived in Canada last night (Wednesday) after a
three hour flight that was a bit tight. Usually, I’m not bothered by
the limited space on most commercial flights, but this was on a smaller
plane and my broad physique felt fairly squished for most of the travel
time. Oh well, maybe I’ll upgrade to those spacious first class seats on
the return flight.
We
landed safely at Vancouver Airport and for the first time, I legally
entered a different country than the United States. For those of you who
don’t know, back in 2015, I technically entered Canada, but not
intentionally. If you want to read the full account of my first true
international trip, you can click here.
Suffice to say, being detained at the Canadian border is an experience I
was happy to avoid this time around as we exited the plane, went
through customs, grabbed our luggage and rental car. We made it to our
AirBnB and rested for the night.
Today,
after a late morning, we headed to Dylan’s Diner for some breakfast and
then sped off to Stanley Park for our first road trip adventure.
Stanley Park is quite large and filled with lots of trees, walking and
bike paths, and a surprising amount of smokers. We spent about 90
minutes walking around this peninsula’s sea wall path, admiring the
balancing rock art, geese swimming on the coast, and the occasional
tandem bike riding past us. We decided walking around the entire island
was going to take too much time, so we took a different path to head
back to our car and see a few more sites at Stanley Park. We briefly saw
Beaver lake which was filled with so much plant life, it was hard to
tell if there was even a lake under all of it. We also walked past a
rose garden that featured various colors of the famed flower. Once we
found our car again, it was time to drive to the next destination.
We
rode on the AquaBus to a few different ports in Vancouver. The first
stop was Granville Island which featured a public market with a
multitude of shops. We caught the tail end of a street performer who
juggled knives while balancing on a skateboard stacked on top of a
couple different objects. We walked through the market and looked in a
few of the shops. We traveled on the AquaBus again to David Lam Park.
Mom and I walked around for a little bit until I noticed the area looked
kind of familiar. I thought the area might have been where some scenes
from a TV show called the Flash was filmed (the show was mostly filmed
in Vancouver), so I took a few pictures in order to compare the two
late. On further inspection, it was not the same area, but David Lam
Park was still a nice area to visit. Afterwards, we took the AquaBus
back to where our car was parked and head back to our AirBnB. 
Mom
and I went to the grocery store to buy some breakfast and dinner items
for our stay in Vancouver. Dinner was pizza, pasta, and salad which was
all pretty good. The rest of the evening is being spent relaxing, typing
up blogs, and catching up on sleep. Speaking of sleep, I better go get
some. Tomorrow, we got more adventures planned.
If you’d like to read the day’s events from my mom’s perspective, you can read her blog here.
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