Doug Turns 10

Well the highlights of yesterday were checking out the sea wall and Canada Place as well as the capilano suspension bridge.

I slept in while doug went for a run in the morning. My body is exhaused and I can finally catch up on sleep in a real bed.

Then we went to the grocery store for a picnic lunch and caught a shuttle up to the bridge. It is just north of the city.

This bridge is a long swinging cable bridge across a canyon. When we arrived, we got a tour of the history of the bridge by Matt.

During the tour doug first began acting like he was
10 years old, as him and the other little kid freaked out when they saw ice cream. Then we went inside the gift shop for free fudge samples, where again, 10 year old doug and another little kid loved the cookies and cream fudge. Well when we went across the bridge, it was confirmed - doug is 10.



So the bridge was large enough for just two people across, and it moved alot! It was pretty neat to walk across but also to watch other people walk across. We had our picnic on the otherside in the rainforest as we learned on the tour. Who knew there was a rainforest so close?

Then we walked around looking for banana slugs and learning about Douglas firs, red cedars, and hemlocks. I also told a joke - what were tarzans last words? Who greased the vine? Doug just shook his head.

Coming back the bus driver was crazy - he was giving us play by play on the loud speaker of his driving situations. It was funny and he was nice enough.

Then we got off at Canada place and saw this digital whale art. I liked it alot.

By this time is was getting late, so we spent a while walking around to find pho, ate it and then watched a movie. We also wrote and mailed some postcards. Good day.


-- Diane and Doug

Location:Vancouver