Day trip into the City...

Took a day trip into Vancouver today.  The skytrain  is a great rail system and it takes about 20 minutes for me to travel from the local station into Vancouver downtown. 

The focus of today's trip was the aquarium in Stanley Park.  It was a good day and saw lots of mammals and fishies from all over the world.

The "donald" is building a new hotel in Vancouver... not sure how  many stories for the latest Trump Tower but it's a biggie!

The home of the local rowing club on the edge of the park.  A lovely spot.

The sea lions were not very happy with each other and made a lot of god-awful noises at each other to explain their feelings.

There were a lot of great animals, fish, reptiles at the aquarium.  It's a great place to spend the day. I actually took a lot of fotos but my camera setting was off kilter... soooo, you'll have to take my word for it that it's a great spot to visit...

Life is Good.

Knee is feeling better - Mr Kane no-showed our rematch race!

Since my old buddy with the cane didn't show for the final in our April madness race, I decided to take the skytrain into Vancouver today.  It stops it's final stop at Waterfront Station - AKA Canada Place and the Pan Pacific Hotel so after a brief visit to a Franchise show at the convention centre and a $35 breakfast, I followed the promenade down to Stanley Park.

There's probably $65 gadzillion worth of boats parked along this stretch of waterfront... something I don't think I'd get into even if I had the cash.. but they do make purdy pictures.

Into Stanley Park (Jewels would have loved this walk) and around lost lagoon.. a nice nature hike in the middle of the city - saw turtles sunning themselves on the rocks.. ducks playing hide and seek and lotsa swans and geese nesting in the area.. then along the sea wall back into the hubbub of the big city....

Finished the day with lunch at a great Vietnamese restaurant.. and just got back to scratch my cat's ears. 

Life is Good....  go JETs gooooo.

Knee hurts....

I followed up my hike from yesterday with an extra long walk today.  Probably about 10K and most of that on assfault and cement sidewalks...  by the time I was getting back to my homestead, walking - limping along the promenade, I heard a thumping noise behind me....

OK.. so what!  No one told me I would be in a race of any kind and.. did I mention my knee hurt like hell.  Stopped in to Shoppers Drug Mart and picked up some glucosamine  and I'll be ready to take on that old bugger if he dares to show up for a race tomorrow... or the next day.  I need to heal.

Life is Good.

Sunny New Westminster

After a couple of days of overcast and rain, the sun came out today and I decided to take my camera and stroll down the waterfront walkway.  It's still early in the season here but that certainly doesn't mean that the colors won't be out.  It was a beautiful walk - about a mile in all.

Now I just have to find a nice grassy area to do something "hikie" on.. like a golf course.  I'm sure there may be one or two in this area.

Life is Good.

Moving on....

I spent a week in Comox with my girls...  I'm so ashamed but I really didn't get any pics to post from my visit other than one Jill took with her phone early one morning.. 

The week went by quickly though - I had a lovely time with Shaya and Rylie with several trips to Serious Coffee in the mornings to get us going (Rylie actually doesn't need any help there!).  As previously, with too much time on my hands, I visited the local Nissan dealership and ended up trading my pick-up on a VW Jetta TDI so I'm into a new set of wheels now.

So, now I'm on the mainland again in beautiful New Westminster BC which is a suburb of Vancouver. I'm house sitting for a lovely young couple who are off to Columbia for 4 weeks.  I'm looking after their condo, watering a few plants, and baby sitting their cat Tipper.  The condo is on the 14th floor of their building and has a great view of downtown and the Fraser River.

I took a few pics this morning of the view from the condo - it was a bit overcast and rainy but still is such a pretty view.

Life is good.

Morning Wood...

Redwood that is... My decision this morning was to head inland.. I just don't think I can handle another 2 states following the coast... It's so beautiful but the driving is so demanding and I'm getting very tired...

So this morning brought me lots of hairpin turns.. again.. but driving through a redwood forest.. some very HUGE trees...

Life is Good...

The pics say it all for today....

So, here they are......

Poor man's Pebble Beach - or is it Bebble Peach?

Life is Good.....