Visiting Vancouver and Meeting Our Loved Ones in Gastown

We were pretty excited as we would be meeting our loved ones and enjoying a great holiday with one of them. It made me happy just thinking about the next couple of weeks.

We left Toronto at 6am boarding a plane for Vancouver. It was an uneventful flight as everything went according to schedule.  The scenery while flying over the Rockies was spectacular!

We arrived at Vancouver Airport after  a three hour flight. We did not ask anyone to pick us up as it was easy taking the Sky Train to our downtown hotel.

We arrived at the hotel around 12pm and were able to check in and rested for a little while before we got connected with J. who was staying at a hostel on Granville Ave as well.

We met him at a Thai restaurant for lunch. J looked happy and he shared with us enthusiastically about his brand new ultra modern high resolution small camera that he bought recently.

We had a really good conversation at this fast food take our place.

We visited Gastown, Vancouver. We were there at a few  minutes before pm. I visited Gastown a few times but never was not there right at the hour for its hourly steam whistles.

We saw a few musicians busking at the street corners as well as a few interesting characters such as this big head character poking his huge head from behind trees and street lamps.

 My favourite was the musician singing Lenny Cohan's Alleluia while a huge lady figure dancing around on the street to this song.

We had dinner at a restaurant in the Vancouver Chinatown. The food was good and we had another nice conversation and caught up with what J has been doing.

By the time we walked back to our hotel,  I was exhausted from our activities and straight to bed!

R.T.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada