Vancouver

On August 17th, Ethan got home from work and was like "Hey. Want to go to Vancouver tomorrow?"So we went!!! It was pretty unplanned and pretty quick but it was so cool and totally worth it.
We ate dinner at Portage Bay (best place in Seattle) on our way to the boarder, spend the night in the Whistler hotel which included like 2 hours of swimming for the girls, and then went to the Capillino Suspension bridge on our way back home on Saturday. I'm sure we missed out on some fun things in Vancouver, but considering we were only there a matter of hours, we really saw a lot. We drove around the city, ate at Subway (shocker), looked at their water front, and took in all the beauty. We live in a beautiful place, but we were still blown away by how beautiful Canada was.
The boarder took a long time both there and back, but other than that, we really had no hiccups. In fact Kelsey still asks if we can move to Canada and its been like 4 months.

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While in Whistler, we just spent most of our time touring the Olympic Park from the 2011 winter Olympics and swimming in the pool which shocking was outdoors. While we were there there was a BMX competition and we tried like 4 times to go watch it but kept missing the shows/competition.

The Olympic village was super cool. They had all sorts of shops and restaurants and even a grocery store. There was a play ground that the girls spent a lot of time at and then little spots where you could tell the athletes would warm up or just play around when they were done. The spot we are at with the rings is where they handed out a lot of the medals. It was basically the Park City of Canada. There is so much more to do in Whistler but again, since this was a last minute trip for us we decided to just do sight seeing. I've heard there is some amazing stuff up there. We had a great time just doing what we did. I can only imagine some of the sights you can see up there.

 

 We stopped at this amazing ice cream place after dinner and I completely regret not getting more. It started to rain a little bit while we were eating but that was the only time it was cold and or rainy. For the most part we got to experience Vancouver in the sunshine which is not really normal.

This picture made me laugh to tears because I felt like it is the best representation of what our kids really have to see all the time. It was so funny to me and Ethan

Pretty much our only stop after Whistler was the Capilano Suspension bridge but we spent so many hours there. It was totally worth the time and money

We asked Kelsey to snap a few pictures of us. I don't know what we expected

Okay, seriously one of the coolest things I have ever done. You get in this line and the line just files across the bridge, but since its a suspension bridge that thing gets ROCKIN!! Both girls fell down in the middle because the bridge was moving so much. I normally don't get sea sick but it was making me super sick. It was so much fun.

Once you get across, they have built more tiny suspension bridges up in the tree tops and walk ways that all wind around and under each other. It was actually super cool

This is a shot from a bridge that sticks out from the rocks like a solid 15 feet. That bridge was freaky but super fun. Luckily the girls didn't get too scared because we weren't allowed to hold them.

These are shots from driving around Vancouver on Saturday. The girls had fallen asleep and so we just did a lot of drive bys which was probably best in the end so that we could get home at a reasonable time. With the boarder crossing I think the drive home was about 4 hours

Downtown was super clean and nice. I would recommend going to anyone. And Ethan was a champion at driving. We couldn't use our GPS because we left too soon to get an international thing so we just had to Wing a lot of stuff or write stuff down or WAIT FOR IT.... USE A MAP!!!! We rocked it old school most of this trip. I don't know if I want to do that every trip but it kind of added to the fun of it all.