WT - Vancouver Stanley Park

Spent a wonderful relaxing afternoon visiting one of the largest parks I have ever seen. This park has a board-walk along the water’s edge very similar to Brisbane, the difference being that Stanley Park’s board-walk surrounds the park on 3 sides, is concrete on solid land and is continuous. Of course both are very beautiful.

We all love our sunsets and especially Ronnie. I am so grateful for the digital revolution as this allows Ronnie to take as many pics as she likes without the delay, cost and frustration of the 35mm SLR camera (thankfully left at home). Dion and Tracy were surprised at the number of sunset pics that Ronnie took. (Filtering the good from the bad is pretty time consuming).

We had a look at the history of the park and of course took a stack of photo’s. Some very interesting native art displayed in the totem poles, the four of us introduced our own totem pole art however I’m not sure that we enhanced the scenery or the culture too much but we did have fun.

We decided to have a bite to eat, settling on hamburgers and kebabs as we had not long finished large ice-creams. While sitting on a park bench eating dinner (a new experience for some) we noticed a street performer on the beach some distance away. We ventured over to the performer once dinner and clean-up was complete.  The “Baron” an English street performer was quite entertaining with his quick wit, fire juggling and great escape.

A beautiful place with Ronnie on my arm, wonderful friends, great food (one of the best hamburgers I’ve ever had) and great entertainment made for a truly fantastic day.

WT - Whistler (BC)

On Wednesday Dion and Tracey took us out to Whistler a lovely little (the word little is relative by the way) holiday resort which is very popular with the tourists. Taylor came along with us to do a little window shopping which was very nice as it gave us a chance to get to know her a little (usually the last thing young people want is to spend a day with the older folk).

Isn’t it funny, one day we are the younger crowd avoiding the oldies and their health complaints (boring…) and the next we are the older generation with all the ailments under the sun – what the heck happened?

Whistler is a great place for young people to pick up work especially if they are students. A lot of Aussie’s working here. I would love to see it in the winter with snow covered mountain peaks. Now here is the thing about BC (British Columbia) while they do get cool winters snow is not guaranteed, Dion and Tray were telling me that they have only had snow about 3 times in 11 or 12 years – the temperatures and seasons are very similar to Toowoomba

 

We had a look at some of the housing in the area, very nice, love the logs. There is of course an abundance of timber here. What I wouldn’t give to get my hands on some of this for carving and not just the fiddly carving that I’ve done in the past but some real life size stuff.

We all had a wonderful day even if Taylor didn’t see anything she really liked:)

On the way home we stopped to take some pics of the sunset over the lakes and mountains. I have to say, this was a very lovely spot and the jetty just made it spectacular. I wish the kids and grand-kids were with us – they would have loved it.

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