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Vacation Part 2

Tourist in Our Own “Hometown”

Hiked the Grouse Grind. Time: 1:32. This is the view from the top:

Vancouver

The big white blob in the top center is BC Place.

If you go: bring a fleece (it’s cold at the top) and money for the gondola down ($5) and the coffee bar. The latte and brownie (mmm) at the top were definitely a highlight of this adventure.

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When we were in elementary school, all BC schoolkids got PNE tickets in their end-of-year report cards. Despite this, neither of us had ever been to the PNE until last year (!). This year, we were veterans. We toured the prize home, checked out the farm animals, and watched the SuperDogs show. And, of course, we ate donuts (1 bag plain, 1 bag cinnamon sugar):

Those Little Donuts

and rode the wooden coaster:

Wooden Coaster

This coaster is literally throws you out of your seat. It’s wicked!

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Walked to the end of the Iona Jetty (4K each way):

Iona Jetty

Iona is close to the airport (YVR) so you can watch planes taking off and landing, as well as marine traffic, birds, etc. There were some crazy fish jumping out of the water while we were there.

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“Braved” the Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge:

Lynn Canyon

Just before I took this photo, a guy slid down the waterfall. Ouch.

Unlike the Capilano Suspension Bridge, this one is free! Parking is also free! As you might suspect, free means it’s uber-popular, so you might not want to go on a long weekend like we did 😉 Would be a good place to take out-of-town visitors.

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

We went to Seattle!

First stop: Wallingford (tee hee).

Wallingford

At Gas Works Park, we watched people sailing on Lake Union:

Space Needle

Discovered the Ballard Locks (Hiram M. Chittenden Locks) are an endless source of entertainment on a sunny Sunday afternoon:

Ballard Locks

The Space Needle may be a cliche destination, but you can’t argue with the views:

West Seattle

Downtown

Gas Works Park, Lake Union

Pike Place Market: like Granville Island, but bigger and less yuppified. The fish-tossing is a bit silly, but the Market Spice tea is yum!

Pike Place Market

This post has nothing to do with books

White Tulip

But a picture’s worth a thousand words, right? (Nothing like a glib cliche to cover up one’s deficiencies ;-))

As astute readers may discern from the above photo, I finally got a digital camera. I know. 21st century and all that. Which means the flickr account I set up a while ago in anticipation of such an event will now actually have photos in it … and all 4 (or is it 3?) of my readers can anticipate more photo-posts from me.

So I’m just playing around with it at the moment, learning all the things it will do (it shoots movies!). I think my favorite feature so far is the continuous shooting setting–that will be awesome for taking triathlon photos.