Vancouver

It seemed like I would be remiss to be in Seattle and not visit Vancouver, the city people glow about. So, last weekend, we took the Cascades Amtrak up to Vancouver. Here's a few photos from the 48 hours spent exploring:

Yup, Vancouver had a one-room Jimi Hendrix shrine. It was well worth the five minutes we spent inside.

This is me making John lift up the house on stilts.

We strolled through Chinatown and found the usual assortment of bins full of spices, fish, and mushrooms. However, I've never before seen a bin full of lizard skins on sticks. They were not expensive either.

Vancouver likes to knit things for their bike racks. I think we should probably do something similar for the ones at school- it gets cold in Cambridge in the winter.

There were fantastic sculptures all around, many added to the city for the 2010 Olympics.  I especially liked this one- there was a circle of red squatting men, all identical to this one. The artist is Wang Shugang.

Stanley Park has a collection of beautiful totem poles that were created in the late 1980s.

And what trip to Vancouver would be complete without people watching- there were tour buses full of high schoolers decked out for the prom. The dresses were definitely a bit more elaborate than what I'm accustomed to.

Just part of Vancouver's beautiful skyline.

Ok, this is Rory. We hung out with him on Whidbey Island a few weekends ago but I thought he deserved to be included in a blog photo posting.