And Up to Canada

Mom and Dad flew in on Monday and Scott, Charlie, mom, dad and I drove up to Canada to spend a few days in Vancouver!

Border

I believe this is actually the border :)

Ohhhhh Canada!

Charlie, Scotty and Me in the backseat

We arrived at the cute little place we were staying and then headed out for dinner. Apparently Monday was British Columbia (BC) Day, so a lot of restaurants were closed, but we went down to Historic Gastown and saw this clock go off across the street.

Tuesday we got up and drove out to University of British Columbia (UBC) to see this whale exhibit! Then mom and Charlie went to the museum of anthropology while Papa, Scotty and I took a drive.

This is the LARGEST Blue Whale Skeleton in Canada!

When the whale was alive it supposedly weighed like 150 Tons
which is like 33 grown elephants... HOLY COW

Gram, Charlie and Scotty reading about the whale

UBC Fountain

View from UBC Campus

Gardens on UBC campus

Scotty, Papa and Charlie enjoying the view

Some crazy logging

Papa and Scotty watching the logs

How did Gram get in the back seat?

We went home to eat lunch, then we headed to Stanley Park for some adventures. Charlie went to the water park while Scotty and I went to the aquarium!

Water Park!

This Sea Cucumber is for Laura :)

Cool shark

Scott getting close to the life

Penguins!

This little guy was friendly!

Then, since Vancouver has a really high population of Chinese folks, the Chinese food is supposed to be spectacular. So we decided we would eat somewhere in Chinatown for dinner. We yelped a place and showed up there... nothing on the menu was in Mandarin so we left and went to a different place. The food was delicious!

Chinese food in Chinatown!

Charlie ate the rest of the bowl of fried rice... all of it!

Wednesday we got up and headed out to Whistler. We were taking a beautiful drive but had some fun stops planned on the way. First stop - Grouse Mountain. We (everyone but Gram) took the Gondola up the mountain and we could see the skyline of Vancouver. It was really spectacular!

Charlie looking at the map before we left!

This is one of the gondolas. They were pretty big and fit about
20 people or so

Scotty takes after Gram on heights... he
wouldn't look out the window

Charlie had NO issues

View from Grouse Mountain

Me, Papa, Charlie and Scotty

Panorama from Grouse Mountain

Beautiful on the drive to Whistler

Next up, we stopped at a waterfall for lunch. It was pretty beautiful! :)

Just watching the waterfall

One of the tallest waterfalls in Canada

Scotty and Charlie

Huge tree near the waterfall

Finally we made it to Whistler, we drove around a little, but didn't have a whole lot of extra time, we had places we needed to go!

Whistler

I believe this is Whistler ski slopes which are quite impressive
even from far away

Like the train museum!!!

One of the trains we went inside

And another

Gram and Charlie walking across the train museum parking lot

Oh and we totally had a ride on this MINIATURE train... yup

Charlie, Scotty, Gram and Papa 

Papa on the train

Yeah... this is at the train crossing

Then we headed back to Vancouver for our last night there! Got some nice views on our way.

Look how blue/green the water is

View from a golf course!