Not going to belabor the rest of the trip. It was a good time but nothing as fun as the whale watching.
On the 8th, we did a bus tour of the city of Vancouver. Something to help us get our bearings in the place. More for a future trip than this one as we pretty well booked up the time we had this trip. The bus tour got us into the Harbour Place tower which has a circular observation deck with great views including this one of 
Canada place with a cruise ship docked.
It took us thru the major districts of the city, Gastown, Chinatown, etc. And out around Stanley park for a good look at the 
Lion's Gate bridge (which was, obviously, designed by the same guy who did the larger Golden Gate). The last stop on the bus tour was the 
Granville Island Public Market
. Looked like a great place to shop for produce, art, and wine.
On the 9th, we had booked a trip up the Sea to Sky route to Whistler/Blackcombe. We took the 
Whistler Mountaineer train up and bus back. That gave us about four hours in Whistler. Which turned out to be about three hours too many. The train trip up was great, took tons of pictures as the train wound up Howe Sound and then up into the mountains. In Whistler we wandered thru one art gallery where nothing was under several thousand dollars and a few souvenir shops. There were opportunities to go zip-lining or ride a ski lift gondola to the top of the mountain. Alice doesn't do heights well so those were pretty well out. So we had lunch at an Irish pub and bought a shirt and an Inukchuk (an Indian symbol of welcome that's being used as the mascot/symbol of the 2010 Winter Olympics to be held at Vancouver and Whistler).
After the bus ride back down to our hotel in Vancouver we cleaned up a bit and went out for some shopping on Robson Street and dinner at the Imperial Chinese Restaurant. The restaurant used to have a real nice view over the harbor but it's now blocked by construction.
2 comments:
Alice won't go to the top of a mountain!? Must be that flat-land childhood -- the Red River Valley is so flat you can see the curvature of the earth; elevation from the river changes about one foot every mile.
Can't recall the name of the mountain, just on the north edge of V. -- the city lights from the top of the mountain at night are pretty sweet.
It's not the top of the mountain that bothers her. Solid ground is fine. It's the ride up in a ski lift.
I think the mountain you're thinking of is Grouse Mountain.
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