Vancouver: Day 2 (Our Crazy, Awesome Day!)

Aka "Haley puked on the Seabus"

We set out in high spirits, but on the bus, Haley announced she had a headache. It wasn't quite bad enough to return to the hostel, but she was not a happy camper. Pressing on, we boarded the small passenger ferry (Seabus) to go to north Vancouver. It was a migrane after all, cause we had to beg our fellow passengers for a seasick bag. Luckily a couple of people had empty shopping bags :) Haley napped for a few minutes at the next bus stop, but then felt much better. Kind of an accelerated, mild migrane.

Grouse Mountain was a lot of fun. We took a skycar up the mountain.


We got to see a Birds of Prey show with trained birds flying about in front of the audience. We saw a hawk,


a turkey vulture,


and a bald eagle. He was too young to have a white head, but he really wanted to cruise the neighborhood. He took off during the show, and it took them a while to get him back. He got to spend the rest of the show being held by his jesses.


The lumberjack show was a lot of fun! They had various contests like a sawing race


and a log rolling competition.


But when nobody was looking a drunken tourist stole some equipment and climbed up the pole. "You're crazy!" the announcer screamed at him. "No, I'm Canadian!" he responded. (He turned out to be part of the show)


We got to ride the chair lift down the mountain and back up. The view was great!


Next we went to the Capilano Suspension Bridge.


I got Haley to take my photo too!


On the other side of the bridge they had tree platforms connected with smaller suspension bridges, à la Swiss Family Robinson.


Here's a view of the Suspension Bridge from further away... Wait a minute, we have to go back over that?!


We had a nice dinner at the White Spot. It ended up being our only sit-down restaurant meal during our whole trip!


Then we hustled back to the hostel to watch the fireworks from the beach. It was awesome to sit in the sand and watch the fireworks across the bay.


The fireworks show was choreographed to music. Luckily, another group had brought a portable radio, so we could listen in! Here's a movie so you can see and hear it too!