Olympic clock, vandalized on the other side the night before. Their colors are lime green and cyan and the vancouver2010 gear, vastly overpriced. Beijing gear came at a better discount, my one fuwa sweatshirt, my only souvenir.
The obligatory skyline (is this the skyline?) from Stanley Park. Every great city needs a mass of green to call its own park and every great city needs a defined skyline.
This island exists under the overpass and contains a public market to rival that in the Ferry Building.
No, I didn't miss Obama's speech. We finished our izakaya meal and rushed through the shopping district (hikers don't shop) to return back.
Lion's gate bridge. Like SF, you gotta drive through the park to get to the bridge. On the other side, far off, is Whistler where the actual Olympics will be held. According to the tourbook, it's also where the rich vancouverites live. Although I visited Richmond (Chinatown) and Vancouver non-shopping district, and it all looked pretty good. I think they have a higher standard of living.
And in the airport, waiting for my return flight, I looked down at customs for people entering Canada. They're all from Japan. The tourbook said Vancouver has more Japanese restaurants, and more izakayas than any other type of restaurant.
And so that was our vacation. We go places thinking of going just once, so it was a lifetime of alpine meadows, lakes and trailmix crammed into two weeks.
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