We woke luxuriously in our 5-star hotel king size bed, contemplating whether to order caviar or boiled goose from room service. Well, the first part is true. Unfortunately our luxurious, all accommodating hotel felt it unnecessary to provide free internet to its guests. I think our 2.5 star hotel in El Paso had free wifi. WTF. We had breakfast at a coffee house across the street that did have the precious internet. After, we headed out to the VanDusen Botanical Gardens. This place was amazing. If you ever get to Vancouver, check this place out. It is acre after acre of beautiful ponds, lawns and gardens. They even had a really cool hedge maze. We were really blown away by this place. We spent two hours walking around looking at all the neat plants, trees, ferns... I can only imagine what someone who knew something about plants would say. I got to get my mom up here. Highly Recommended.
After the gardens we went out to a place called Granville Island. Not really an island, but a sort of dock area under a bridge which has a bunch of neat shops/artists/restaurants. It is kind of like Seaport Village, back in San Diego. Lots of neat artists and things to see. We took in the sights, grabbed some lunch and then headed back to our hotel room. For a nap. Lots of walking.
When we woke up, we headed down towards Gastown, a neat historical kind of area, not unlike the Gaslamp in S.D. We took a picture in front of the steam powered clock, Gassy Jack (The Founder of Gastown) and then found a nice restaurant for pizza and beer. After we decided to hop into a local brew pub for some more beer. We sampled their collection merrily. On our way home we passed Canada Place, a sort of central Hub for the Olympics, you saw it, it had all those big white sails on it.
Vancouver really is a world-class city. It has amazing sights, great vibe and is pretty darned cool. Despite having to pay for that world-class-ness, we really enjoyed Vancouver.
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