Day 2 in Canada was a little more adventurous. Woke up, ate breakfast, and then we headed up to Vancouver, to Stanley park. On an interesting note, you have to go through a tunnel and over a bridge to get there, and they have quite possibly the most insane traffic control system I’ve ever seen. There’s between three and six lanes, depending on what part of the system you’re on, and on the bridges and in the tunnels, one or two lanes in the middle actually change directions depending on how traffic is flowing.
Anyways, after we got up, we went to Stanley Park, a really massive park in Vancouver. That up there is my Aunt Rhonda, posing on a great big fallen log (they had a big hurricane come through in ’06, did a lot of damage to the forest there). Then there’s a couple of ducks, a big one and a little one, that we found by the Beaver Pond. Also, a nice little shot of the Beaver Pond, and its assorted flora.
After that we headed on up to Grouse Mountain, which, amazingly enough, still had snow on it. Saw a birds of prey show, that’s the first photograph below. Then my grandpa took the camera for a moment and photographed me in…a snow bank! It’s all warm up there, but it was so thick that there’s still some left in places. There were also some (contained) bears, which I added with a nice Colbert-ish twist. And, the obligatory mountain view. I’ll just go ahead and finish there, because it’s late now. Turns out trying to sort through and process photographs and write a lengthy blog entry all in one sitting is just a little too much…
