CAPILANO SUSPENSION BRIDGE PARK

WHAT: 

A park with rainforest trees turned in to a tourist attraction by putting up a big suspension bridge over a canyon and some smaller bridges between the treetops.

ON THE SPANISH BANKS

DAY 22

SPANISH BANKS

Vancouver seems to be neverending with beaches, just as the time we spend on them. I got my first real sunburn for the trip today. It'll be perfect for the crayfish party season in Sweden that is very much in full swing when we return.

It is the last whole day in Vancouver and although both me and Julia misses our boys like crazy, it feels sad to leave the rest of the family. They are a bunch of globetrotting, funloving, (extremely) goodlooking people that I spend way too little time with because of the globetrotting, but I still love them for it.
They're constant traveling just too stay in touch with each other - we have relatives on dad's side in Germany, UK, Sweden and Candada, with inlaws adding Israel, Pakistan, Denmark and Russia to the list.
It's suddenly clear why I feel this aching hole in my chest whenever I'm not on the road...

NUDIE BEACH & WEDDING-TIME

DAY 19
Today was the day of Museum of Anthropology and, most importantly,

THE DAY OF THE WEDDING

and it was magical and amazing and tearfilled and everything you want a wedding to be. 

The start of the day didn't quite match the end of it though...

KITSILANO BEACH

DAY 18

KITSILANO BEACH

The weather gods has been our friends ever since we left Sweden. I've started to forget what rain looks and feel like. Here in Vancouver, skies are always blue and water is always blue and everything but our feelings are blue. Okay mine have been a little blue. I still miss Jonathan. But today, not even his nest of blond hair and his cute smile could make me wish I was anywhere but here. 

GASTOWN, VANCOUVER

DAY 16

A trip back in time?

GRANVILLE ISLAND

DAY THREE 

Last day in Vancouver, the first turn, we checked out Granville Island with all of it's markets. We met the cousins and aunts by the Water Park and then continued on to the Public Market, where we got some food. I'll let the picture speak for themselves.

STANLEY PARK-ING

DAY TWO
Apparently, you can't visit too many parks...

With little to none say in schedule-making, I nicely followed where my parents led me. And actually, quite glad I did. Stanley Park was next park in what seems to be the eternal amount of parks in this city, and what waited us outside the car when we finally found a parking lot was quite amazing.
On one side, we had the bay with the impressing silhouette of gas town. On the other, we had totem poles making an outdoors gallery for everyone to enjoy.

QUEEN ELIZABETH PARK

DAY ONE

The weather was bright, the sky was clear, the family behaved... 

After sleeping from 9 o'clock in the evening, the jetlaged forced us to wake up by 5 in the morning. Nethertheless, we were eager to see some Canada and asked our hosts where to go. Just down the block, or sort of, there was a park, they said and gave us directions.