2024 Canada Rockies to Vancouver

  Today we are headed home in a couple of hours - we hope ! Our flight from Vancouver to Atlanta was cancelled due to a mechanics strike at WestJet Airlines. I worked with a wonderful agent from Delta to rebook our flights -now Seattle/Atlanta/Asheville. I have boarding passes but no seat assignments to Seattle so keeping our fingers crossed! Update: We’ve been assured we are on! Now to fun stuff!! Our last day in Vancouver was very fun:) we walked along Coal Harbor to Stanley Park and rode a horse carriage tour through the Park (lots of history and lovely sights). Ate lunch overlooking the Harbor! Girl in Wetsuit modeled after Little Mermaid, when Copenhagen artist refused permission to copy. "City of Glass" from across the harbor Restaurant wait on Coal Harbor Finally, I'm in a Tim Horton's at Vancouver airport The girls were overly-excited by Lynn finally returning home after such a long trip The End !!! Of a most fabulous vacation!! We are home in North Carolina a...

We explore Vancouver today:  Beautiful warm weather to walk Coal Harbor to Stanley Park - and then along English Bay (lots of walking!) to ride the False Creek Ferries across to Granville Island. The Market on Granville Island is amazing!!

  We were picked up at our Vancouver hotel today and found out we wouldn’t be returning for 14 hours!! We took the tour bus to the ferry, then the ferry to Vancouver Island harbor, then the tour bus to our destination: Butchart Gardens and Victoria, capital of British Columbia. We absolutely loved the beauty of the Gardens … were sad to not find the same joy in walking around Victoria we felt over 20 years ago on a brief visit during an Alaska cruise. Waterfront downtown Victoria, Parliament in the far distance Parliament, rear view!  waiting for the ferry in the hellish gift shop Ferry Princess Lynn "Quiet room" on the ferry home - they enforce it!