Vancouver, BC

        Yesterday was a long day. Amanda and I got on the train at 5:30 am and didn't get to Vancouver until around 5:30 pm. The train and bus ride went fairly smoothly. By the time we got here, we were stressed and lacking in sleep. The bus/train station here in Vancouver is in a pretty sketchy area. We got a bit lost trying to find our hotel in the pouring rain. We ended up heading back to the train station and hailing a cab. When we got to our room we were starving, but couldn't decide on a place to eat. We ended up walking around the block until we settled on a BBQ restaurant and bar just down the street from our hotel. We went to bed a bit early...

       Today was a good day. We got up and took showers in our shared bathroom, before we headed to a coffee shop for breakfast. We caught a free shuttle to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. It was really cool. It was something like 205 feet above the Capilano river. In the park there were also several bridges set up that were up in the trees. We also did a cliff-side walk on these thin wooden walkways that were bolted to the rock face. We caught the free bus back downtown and then headed back to our hotel. we decided to go get dinner and some beer at a brewery a few blocks away called Yaletown. The food was great and the beer was awesome. They had one of the best IPAs I've had in a while. We wandered around a bit after that and then decided to head to China Town. It was starting to get dark around the time we reached the entrance of Chinatown, and the neighborhood made us nervous, so we headed back to the BBQ bar we had been at the night before to have a couple beers. Tonight there is a hockey game going on at the arena across the street and we watched a bit of it on the TV at the bar. Hockey can be pretty brutal...

       I would really like to add some pictures to this post, but the computer here wont let me... I also apologize for any spelling or grammatical errors, as trhe backspace key on this keyboard is broken and the spell check istn working so well... I'll do my best to fix these issues in the next couple days. hopefully the computer (if they have one) at the next hostel will be better and more user friendly.