Vancouver

Soooooooooooooooooo, three wonderful days later and my blog gets another entry.

As most of you know, I arrived safely, spending my first days with the wonderful mr. Daniel Woods. While visiting stanley park, I spotted my first bald eagle. Right now, Vancouver is swamped with tourists. It's not only summertime, a three-day national holiday is luring tourists and travelers from all around to join the celebrations. Pretty festive here, I can tell ya!

On Sunday, Timo and I visited the famous suspension bridge (not for those with a fear of hights). You'd think it would be a pretty steady bridge, guess again. It wiggles in a snake-like manner, even more so if you, like Timo and I, jump up and down on both sides!

After the bridge and a good walk, we enjoyed a home cooked meal at Daniels place, getting a good opportunity to hear some more adventurous stories. And after all the tale telling, it became time Timo and I got some stories of our own. D drove us up to a place above Wistler where we got to do a trail across three (although we only visited two) glacier lakes. Sure is an awesome site!

Today, a new member was added to our family. We call him 'Barrel'. I bought a 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier. It's in fairly good shape, although it kinda squeaks and every now and then treats us to a puzzling light show on the dashboard. Oh well, we got road assistance on it, so it should be fine...

Tomorrow, Timo and I head out for three days to hike up to Black Tusk. The hike takes us up to a glacier like high up the mountains. We''ll spend a day exploring the mountain top before we come down again. Since grizzly encounters are frequent, we armed ourselves with special grizzly spray (just your regular pepper spray), just in case Winnie the Pooh gets a fit. The guy from the store explained how it works: "so, if you see the bear, flip the safety lid of the can. When the bear attacks and is in three or two meters of range, spray the pepper spray in its direction'. YEAH, RIGHT! Two meters?! I'll have shit allover myself if a giant grizzly gets that close. The only thing scaring him off, will be the smell of my undies!

We'll let you know three days from now if we've survived the whole thing.

Funny facts:
If you wanna cross the road, just start walking. Everyone will slow down their cars and wait patiently untill you've reached safety across. Try this in Holland, and you'll wind up as road kill.

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Part of trip: Canada

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