A Weekend Visit to Vancouver, BC

For Presidents Day weekend, I decided I'd fulfill my plan from the beginning of this school year to visit Vancouver, BC, with my friend, Fredolyn. I hadn't been to Vancouver since around first or second grade when my uncle used to live there.

After not being able to go on our trip for all of fall and the first half of winter quarter, we finally made the plans to visit Canada with my younger sister, Joanna.

We left early this morning around 9 AM and drove up I-5 in beautiful, sunny weather. Although the sky was clear blue, the weather outside was pretty chilly.

We headed up first to Richmond to do...what else...eat Asian food! We headed to Yaohan Center to eat in the food court. We all had wonton noodle soup. Yummm!

After this short lunch break, we drove north into downtown Vancouver.

The weather was fantastic and since we couldn't check into our hotel until 4 PM, we decided to drive through the horrendous traffic to visit Stanley Park.

I took a ton of pictures. Check 'em out!

After spending the afternoon at Stanley Park, we headed for our hotel and then straight to the Vancouver Lookout Observation Tower so we could catch the sunset from high up. At least there's a student discount to take the elevator up, and we managed to buy mini Canadian flags to add to our flag collections before heading up.

Right after that, I'd figured we'd find someplace good to eat in Gastown, the historic center of Vancouver, but surprisingly, it was hard to find any place to eat. We did find the famous steam-powered clock though.

We finally decided on getting dinner at a Japanese restaurant. It was pretty good for the price we paid. Tasty!

After dinner, we decided to return to the observation tower since one ticket lets you up as many as times as you want in one day. So back up the elevator we went.

Around 9 PM, we decided to call it a day and head back to the hotel. I came back and watched some highlights from the NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix. Brandon Roy did well again, and he made his alley-oop pass from Chris Paul off the glass this year although to be fair Chris Paul's pass last year was way too high off the backboard.

Well, I've finally finished another blog of my travels. Love it. It's been a fun trip up here in Vancouver, and I'm looking forward to exploring Granville Island's Public Market and then getting dim sum in Richmond before heading home.

This is a good month for the blog as I'll be traveling again next weekend to present a workshop on the Dream Project at the College Board Western Regional Forum in Denver, CO. Should be a fun time, especially since all the times I've been to Denver have only been transfers at DEN.

So, with that, TTFN!