I had the best birthday so far! It was not only for 1 day but 5 days of relaxation and having fun!
Day 1 – July 1, 2010 (Canada day!)
Early morning flight to Vancouver at exactly 9:22am. We left the house 2 hours before our flight. As we can’t bring the car, we decided to call a cab to bring us all to the airport. After all the airport procedures, we were by the pre-departure area exactly 15 minutes before our boarding. Didn’t wait that long which is good. We arrived at Vancouver 15 minutes earlier than our scheduled arrival time. It was Canada day so Vancouver airport is packed with tourists. We waited for our friend for few minutes and he gave us a ride to our hotel – Hyatt Regency. It was a modern hotel. I liked it! Reminds me of Shangrila Hotel Makati. Anyway, we went for lunch as everyone is starving and headed to go to Canada Place (Downtown Vancouver) and took some pictures. There was a big event going on as they celebrate the Canada day. Almost everyone had their face painted with maple leaf or Canadian flag. I love the spirit! Reminds me of Independence day back home.
Ella and I had our face painted with maple leaf (they used stick ons for Ella as they’re afraid she might get some allergies). So we took some picture, stayed for a bit to watch the show/concert. Couldn’t really watch it as there’s a lot of people. Just too afraid that they bumped into my daughter so after a couple of “photo shoots” with our photo enthusiast/photographer friend. We headed back to our hotel to take a shower and rest for a bit and off we went to Capilano Suspension Bridge. We love the view, we love the place. From the name itself, it is a long suspension (hanging) bridge and there is mini hanging bridges all over the place. The park’s attendants were all wearing clothes inspired during the 18th century. The décor and the place itself looks “old” but with lots of history behind it. In general, this is one of the most nicest place we’ve been to. Again, after series of photo shoots and basically enjoying the whole place, we went to another park (didn’t get the name) and again we enjoyed the view and took some pictures. It was drizzling so temperature is kind of chilly but we managed to enjoy the place. Stayed for another hour or so and off we went to our friend’s house for a much deserved dinner at 8pm! Filipino dishes (lutong bahay) were overflowing in their dining area – monggo, igado, chicken, fried galunggong, pancit, buko salad – YUM! I sooo missed this! I was so bloated after the dinner and made chicka chicka to our friend’s wife and called it a night by 11pm! We were sooo tired and Ella is already snoring in the car. Didn’t have time to check our pictures from our camera as we were all ready to zzzzssss….
On the sidelight, after all these activities, no one would ever think that I was suffering and survived a major stomach flu (read: LBM!) that day!
4 more days to go……. (to be continued)
