Lazy Ladybug: Vancouver- Day 1 & 2

We left the B&B in Schulenburg at 3:00 Sunday morning after only an hour and a half of sleep. My parents were so very kind to pick us up and take us to the airport in Houston. Our flight left a little before 7:00. I made sure to drug myself up for the almost 3 hour flight to Salt Lake City. And I'll throw this in here now...I really really dislike Delta. On every single one of our 4 flights, Josh and I were separated by the aisle and in the very back of the plane right by the bathroom! So, on this first leg, I had to get creative with my sleeping positions. I ended up with the tray table down and me fast asleep laying on it.

There was a 2 hour layover in Salt Lake that wasn't too bad. We got some breakfast and did some people watching. I've been in quite a few airports and I have to say this is one of the busiest! Josh also filled me in on the itinerary for the week. I had wanted to be surprised about which hotels we were going to be staying at, so I found out then. The flight to Vancouver was only about an hour and a half, but I got another good nap in, but this time on Josh's shoulder and the window. The plane wasn't full, so we were able to switch around. We got to Vancouver about 12:00, which was 2:00 Texas time (which means we had now been awake about 12 hours). We had to stand in line at customs for close to an hour, and then had to deal with an incredibly grouchy customs worker. I had put my address as the one on my license, because I didn't want to cause a fuss if they started questioning me. Well, she asks why we are traveling to Cananda? Honeymoon. Where's your husband? Right there. Do you live together? I told her 'no' because obviously our addresses wouldn't match. And she looked at us like we were crazy! We finally make it through, grab our luggage, exchange some money, get a taxi and we're on our way to the hotel. The Sylvia Hotel.

After a 30 minute cab ride, we finally arrive, exhausted, only to be told that our room was not ready. Seriously? So, they store our luggage and we head out to get something to eat. I think the place we ate at was called Fat Burger. Very good. We get back to the hotel and our room was ready!! Yeah! Our room was on a corner so we had gorgeous views two different ways.

I literally fell into bed and slept hard until about 8:30 that night. I had to force myself to get up to take a shower. As soon as I had done that, I fell back into bed until 8:30 the next morning. It was incredibly wonderful sleep.

*Now on to Monday, October 20

After we managed to drag ourselves out of bed and get dressed, we at breakfast at our hotel, and then set out to explore Vancouver. We made our way over to Stanley Park and the Vancouver Aquarium.

Along Denman St. Look at the beautiful foliage!

Looking back toward Downtown. It really is "The City of Glass"

More Fall Color

Entrance to the Aquarium

While there, we got to see them training some dolphins

This was one of their tricks. They would swim from where they were in the pic above and then jump onto the platform. It was pretty impressive!

These were two Beluga whales. If you look closely at the fin area of the closer one, there is a gray spot...that's a baby Beluga!

This is Lion's Gate Bridge. Built by the Guinness Family. Yes, that Guinness Family...the beer people. They built it because they had a residential development across the water that didn't have any access.