We have a shortlist of 5 must do activities next time you are Downtown.
9.30am Breakfast at Elbow Room on Davie Street. Cheek by jowl (or elbow to elbow?) with a huge plate of bacon and eggs (mostly bacon) that you will need to walk off during the day. Customers not finishing their meal are fined a donation to the local HIV/AIDS charity. Repartee is a natural for the wait staff.
10.30am Walk along the foreshore past Coopers' Point, site of a former brewer and linguist. We loved the appropriate apostrophe in the name of the park.
11.30am Off to the Science Museum to rub shoulders with the families of Vancouver and test out our science know-how. Turns out we know as much as the average 7 year old. Just as well we went.
David with a new best friend outside the Science Museum
2.00pm was an opportunity to enjoy an iMax documentary about building the Trans Canadian Railway. If you don't already know, after Time Fisher, David is Australia's foremost train enthusiast. He had a great time. Chinese, Japanese and a host of rugged Canadians brought the engineering project to completion in half the time allotted. And this was in 1881 - approximately 120 years before Prince2 project management was invented. Go figure.
7.00pm Scoot on in to join the friendly locals and helpful staff at the Yale Saloon on Granville Street where you can get your fill of boot scootin', country music and mechanical bullriding (lucky we have experience at a certain family wedding).
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| Getting ready for boot scootin' with a sample of the local beverage |
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