WendyWeather wandering

The view from my window today. Actually, this is from almost the end of the day, I’ll get back to this, let me tell you where we went first.

Today was a good day for rule #6 ‘embrace the weather’. I reckon there’s no point railing against rain or whining about wind or waiting for the sun. Whatever holiday weather you get act like that’s the weather you wanted and plunge in. Today we were plunging in to some very typical Vancouver wet weather. Personally I have no problems with it. Give me cool, cloudy & rainy any day (known in our family as WendyWeather) so it just made the day better as far as I’m concerned. 

If you’re wondering about rules 4-6 (these ones are more like mantras than rules) 

#4 enjoy now, worry about the bills later*

#5 eat, drink & experience local specialties

#6 embrace the weather 

So as we were embracing the WendyWeather today we ubered up to the Calpilano Suspension Bridge park to take a look at some big old trees and scare the livin’ daylights out of ourselves on this sucker …

And yes, I walked across it, and no, all you doubting Thomases, I did not fall over (not for the lack of trying). It gets alarmingly swingy bouncy, MGM & Tony even had a bit of motion sickness, & was a bit slippery slidy in the rain but the view was worth it …

On the other side there’s lots of activity options, the call of the Swiss family Robinson was too strong to ignore so up into the treetops we went. What a wonderful way to experience Mother Nature.

Another walk took us along the river and back to the suspension bridge. 

We had some company that will make Becca happy along the way. The locals were surprised that I was so excited to see this little cutie, he’s probably the Canada’s bin chicken equivalent. 

Lunch, after all this amazingness was, for me, the equally wonderful and worth traveling to this part of the world tuna melt. Nowhere else but North America does the tuna (pronounced toona) melt to this stunning perfection. You’ll have to work for it though. If you ask for tewna melt in your best Aussie accent “nope, we don’t do that”. So either point to a menu or learn to pronounce it. 100% worth it. Seriously I could live on them. 

Something else you can’t ask for is the toilet. Even though they sit on the same piece of equipment that word is like Voldemort. Ask for a washroom though and suddenly you’re speaking the same language. It is the strangest thing. 

After our 3 hour kip (jet lag you rat bag) we took the ferry of the aforementioned window view over to Erin’s place. The public transport here is brilliant. I mean look at these cute little ferries that ply the Bay. They buzz around all day, are walk on/off no tickets required, clean and efficient. As are the trains here. Tap on/off no tickets, opal card etc. fast efficient clean trains simple and easy to use. Vancouver, you really have your act together. 

We met Erin at this pretty marina 

And went out for some delicious sushi, very handy having a local selecting your dinner place. We would never have found it without her. Another thing Vancouver excels at is seafood, I am in heaven.

* T&Cs apply. Responsible service recommended