FYI... the photos are not showing up correctly. If you click on the image it should take you to the full photo on Photobucket (as well as a lot of our other vacation photos). I'll try to figure out how to fix it.
This morning we woke up to our first view of the city out of our hotel window. Vancouver is a large metropolis with a beautiful, natural setting of the sea and the mountains. We loaded our stuff back into our rental car, a Chrysler 300, and drove to the Hyatt Regency in downtown Vancouver. Our second hotel of the trip. We will eventually stay in a total of 5 different hotels. Got to have variety.
After we got our stuff in our new room we ate some lunch (we were half starved) and then went to Stanley Park. Stanley Park is a fairly large park at the tip of the little peninsula on which downtown Vancouver sits. We rented a tandem bicycle and road around the sea wall that goes all the way around the park. It was a lot of fun! The views from the trail were beautiful. We got to see many varieties of ships and boats and several float planes taking off and landing in the water.
We walked back to our hotel and took a nap before going out to dinner at Cardero's, a seafood restaurant that literally sits right on the water - it's a dock. It got Cindy to try seared albacore tuna but she wasn't too crazy about it. She had a pork chop and I had wild Pacific salmon. It was pretty good but a little pricey.
Overall we had a pretty good first day and it's only going to get better!
-Peace, Love and Goodbye (that's what this bum/hippie guy yelled at us as we rode by him on our bike in Stanley Park, ha)
Driving into downtown Vancouver
Us on our awesome tandem bike. I look rediculous in a bike helmet but Cindy looks cute :-).
The sea wall bike path leading up to Lion's Gate Bridge.
Cindy and I going to dinner
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