We slept in a bit and got up ready for a day of adventure. Although it wasn't supposed to be sunny the good news was that they weren't predicting a lot of rain for our last day o the west coast. Our first stop in the morning was for breakfast at some crappy diner in English Bay. It took them three tries to get Amy's right and I had an omelet with canned mushrooms in it.......yum? After that we struck off for the aquarium! We were surprised when we went through admissions and they took our picture against a green screen for a souvenir photo. I have a cop of it to take with me, but don't have one to post on here. The aquarium was really cool despite being crawling with bawling bratty kids. One of my favourite parts was the jelly fish tank. They used a blue background and great
lighting to really highlight the jellyfish. We toured around looking at all the interesting creatures and taking in the sights. We were also waiting for both a Beluga show and the Dolphin show. When we went to get our seat for the Beluga show the rain started a bit, but we weren't scared! There was one area with an awning, but it was labeled clearly with 'Splash Zone'. That tells me that that even though it might be raining, I would be better off in the spitting rain then in the way of a splashing Beluga. Some other people obviously didn't see the signs because that area filled up mighty quick. Before the show started the fella on the mic said to be warned that those people might get wet. They didn't listen....tisk tisk. The show was okay, not great but okay. It was mostly information about Belugas and they did some things while the guy was talking. Then at the end of the show the Beluga gave a huge splash to the crowd! It sure was funny watching that from the dry zone!
Next up was the dolphin show. It was certainly more exciting then the Belugas and the dolphins impressed us with their height flying acrobatic moves. They were very well trained and really impressive to watch. After that show we did the rest of the aquarium and hit the road in search of a food truck. Amy and I are both fans of the food network and the shows, Eat Street, You Gotta Eat Here and Man vs Food. So before we travelled we looked up online if there was any food trucks that were featured on Eat St. in Vancouver. We found out that there were actually 4 different trucks featured on the show from Vancouver. Amy has the Eat St. app on her phone so we thought we would look up where the trucks were and then just go and find one. Turns out......the Eat St. app is crap! We spent a good amount of wasted time looking for the food trucks where the app said they should be. We went the whole time in Vancouver without eating from and Eat St. food truck! We did however have a great burrito from the Red Burrito on Robson. We were headed to Robson to go to Beard Poppas. They are supposedly the best cream puffs around! We bought some and took them back to Calgary with us. They were pretty good, but not life changing. I really thought they were going to be so good they would change my life.
After a bite to eat we hit up Cyprus Mountain before jumping on the highway and heading back to Abbotsford. The drive was shorter then we thought to the first look out and it was a really great view to downtown Vancouver. Not to mention there was a truck full of fellas that just got done mountain biking in the mountains :). After snapping a few pictures we thought we would head up the mountain some more and see if there was a higher look out. There was in fact a higher look out but it wasn't nearly as good as view as the first one, so we didn't stay there very long. We did take a little drive up to the top where they had a ski hill. There was still lots of snow the higher we got on the mountain. At one point there were banks along the road that were taller then the car. Amy said, we should stop and get a picture of you next to the huge snow banks. So we did. The whole drive up the mountain there were caution avalanche signs along the road. We didn't pay to much attention to them until we got up on the road with the high snow banks. I was standing in front of the snowbank posing for a picture while Amy stood in the middle of the baron road taking my picture. As I was standing there a chunk of snow rolled off the snowbank and onto the ground beside me. There must have been 4-5 centimeters in that chunk........ For half a second the feeling I felt was sheer terror! When the snow hit the ground I thought it was the start of an avalanche and my face reflected that. I jumped out of the way just in time to see Amy doubled over laughing. Obviously there was no avalanche and Amy could see that from where she was standing, but mama didn't raise no fool. I was always taught to never turn my back to the snow bank. After that we headed back to Abbotsford to return the car and fly back to Calgary. I don't know how many of you have been to Abbotsfordmins and early for our flight so we decided to go to bar and have a beer or two while we waited. The waitress just brought us our beer when the announced that our flight was actually early and that they would be boarding in a few minutes. Amy and I had to chug our pints of beer before boarding! The flight was short and painless, and we were back in Calgary in no time.
So there it is, my west coast vacation. Now I am relaxing and all packed and ready to go. It is a bit surreal that I am moving to New Zealand tomorrow morning! I hope all goes well and I am sure I will update you all once I arrive.
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