Fun in Vancouver

It's fun when you have high-speed Internet and don't have to wait five minutes for every photo to upload to your blog. It's also a lot of fun in Vancouver.

Highlights of the day included: flat tire with nail before we left Seattle, which led to a walk downtown while we waited for the tire to get fixed. That meant a raspberry donut at that cool donut shop across from where Annie works. Lots of knowledge in there with all the old sets of encyclopedias and lots of every kind of fattening donut you'd ever want. We met Rich who works at Groundspeak. Telephone rang. Tire fixed. Then, on to Jeremy's---oops, I meant JT's catering shop for some yummies for the trip.

On to Vancouver where we're staying at the Residence Inn near the water but facing the "glass city" skyscrapers. We're on the 12th floor, so looking down off our deck is a bit scary, but there's plenty to see looking up, including the cranes involved in fast-paced construction for the 2010 Winter Olympics. What a venue for the Games!

Many photos were taken in Stanley Park, which seems endless and limitless in its features. The black and white of it with the squirrels and the beluga white whales. At least 14 million digital cameras at every turn, which means endless ducking to get out of the way of a camera which may be aimed at anything but you. It's a great place for an October Saturday stroll, and stroll we did for about four miles. Then, we caught the end of sunset near the Lion's Gate Bridge, and I asked a stranger to catch a photo of Annie and me. Dinner at the Milestone along the beach topped off a great day.

Today we're going to do some more geocaching outside the city, investigate the city some more and then head back to Seattle. We may try to see Sean Penn and Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild tonight. Not a bad weekend.

Happy Sunday.