{"id":15869,"date":"2019-09-04T19:14:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T23:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=15869"},"modified":"2019-10-21T08:47:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:47:04","slug":"exploring-beautiful-vancouver-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=15869","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Beautiful Vancouver, B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

September 1 – 4, 2019<\/p>\n

Vancouver remains one of our favorite cities in the world. It’s an enjoyable city to visit and seems very livable: great public transportation, outdoors activities, mild year-round climate, multi-cultural population, friendly people, and many cultural events and activities. Did I mention incredibly beautiful?!! There are many parks and gorgeous view of the sea and mountains everywhere.<\/p>\n

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Sunday afternoon we took a taxi to Vanier Park to see a performance of Shakespeare’s\u00a0Taming of the Shrew. <\/em>It was\u00a0performed by Bard on the Beach which is a professional summer theater group. This production was a very funny ‘Wild West’ cowboy version of the famous play and very enjoyable.<\/p>\n

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Before the performance, we sat on a bench near Kitsilano Beach and Jeff noticed a pink paper origami bird hanging in a tree. According to the label, someone travels the world and hangs origami from trees in public parks and posts locations on social media. The sign said: “It’s never too late to start again.”<\/p>\n

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The little ferries on False Creek are practical and so much fun!<\/p>\n

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Canada Place on the waterfront is a convention center, hotel, meeting place, world trade center, and cruise ship terminal with great views across the bay to North Vancouver:<\/p>\n

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We took advantage of a beautiful sunny day to explore Stanley Park. The thousand acre park on the edge of downtown Vancouver remains densely forested. There are public beaches, trails, lakes, a heated pool, an aquarium, and an outdoor theater. We went to see the collection of totem poles:<\/p>\n

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We enjoyed walking several miles along the outer walking\/running\/biking trail. There’s also a statue of a swimmer on a rock which reminded us of The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

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On another day, we visited Bill Reid’s Gallery of Northwest Coast Art. He was featured on the Canadian $20 banknote. The gallery also had several wonderful exhibits by contemporary indigenous artists.<\/p>\n

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Downtown Vancouver in the glistening sunshine:<\/p>\n

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Our time in Vancouver passed quickly and we said goodbye to Vancouver early Wednesday morning. This trip home ended the same as it had begun, with a long delay at the Seattle airport. I took this photo from the plane of Mt. Ranier poking above the clouds, with Mount St. Helens in the background.<\/p>\n

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The view was a wonderful way to end a great adventure to Alaska and Vancouver.<\/p>\n

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September 1 – 4, 2019 Vancouver remains one of our favorite cities in the world. It’s an enjoyable city to visit and seems very livable: great public transportation, outdoors activities, mild year-round climate, multi-cultural population, friendly people, and many cultural events and activities. Did I mention incredibly beautiful?!! There are many parks and gorgeous view […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15869"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15896,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions\/15896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}