Notes from the Promised Land, Days 4 & 5
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ciroccojDay 4
Puttered about Vancouver. Saw a Japanese fishing village. No pictures. Boo.
Day 5
The next day, my dad, Trinh, Emma and Mark started driving to Alberta. Dennis stayed behind, with a caregiver who was going to stay with him while the trail ride was going on, since he would have been pretty miserable if he'd come along. We also stayed in Vancouver, as we were going to be flying in to Lethbridge. Went to the Capilano Bridge, a 136-metre long suspension bridge that hangs 70 above the Capilano river.
Yeah, province of superlatives. It's a little scary, walking over this thing.
Anybody remember Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball?"
David Duchovny, who lived in Vancouver for about five years, said that it rained "about 400 days of the year" there. We were lucky - we only got rain the last day, and since we were visiting a rain forest, it was all A-OK :)
A Frigging Huge Tree.
After you've crushed every vertiguous feeling you've ever had by walking 70 metres over rushing water, you can climb up to a network of suspension bridges that girdle some of the giant trees on the other side of the bridge, and go for a little walk waaaay up high. And if you're a kid, you can play tag up there. And then get in trouble with your parents, because you're not supposed to be running and yelling and shaking the bridges and causing heart attacks in the other visitors.
Not Quite Fern Gully, but close enough.
Puttered about Vancouver. Saw a Japanese fishing village. No pictures. Boo.
Day 5
The next day, my dad, Trinh, Emma and Mark started driving to Alberta. Dennis stayed behind, with a caregiver who was going to stay with him while the trail ride was going on, since he would have been pretty miserable if he'd come along. We also stayed in Vancouver, as we were going to be flying in to Lethbridge. Went to the Capilano Bridge, a 136-metre long suspension bridge that hangs 70 above the Capilano river.
Yeah, province of superlatives. It's a little scary, walking over this thing.
Anybody remember Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball?"
David Duchovny, who lived in Vancouver for about five years, said that it rained "about 400 days of the year" there. We were lucky - we only got rain the last day, and since we were visiting a rain forest, it was all A-OK :)
A Frigging Huge Tree.
After you've crushed every vertiguous feeling you've ever had by walking 70 metres over rushing water, you can climb up to a network of suspension bridges that girdle some of the giant trees on the other side of the bridge, and go for a little walk waaaay up high. And if you're a kid, you can play tag up there. And then get in trouble with your parents, because you're not supposed to be running and yelling and shaking the bridges and causing heart attacks in the other visitors.
Not Quite Fern Gully, but close enough.
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Date: 2008-09-05 02:51 pm (UTC)I really hadn't thought of how scary it was until it was time to step on the thing. While it swayed. That was... myeah. ::gulp::