Visiting Vancouver, BC with Kids in Tow
Date: Thursday, March 16 @ 05:00:00 PST
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I’ll admit, I have almost no concept of time. With this in mind -- yours, not mine -- it should come as no surprise that our trip to Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada, that is) last year, though fun as it was, came and went without fanfare from pleasant, little me. No less, if you’re looking to visit Vancouver, BC with kids in tow, this may be an imperative overview for you, as my own articles about the matter assert that I had a really and truly great time, though I have no memory of it myself.
I half suspect I suffered some sort of international espionage plot as a result of this trip out of the country. I mean, I’m not so simple as to believe that I could forget a whole trip to some place as significant as a visit to a foreign nation, but yet, I have no personal account of what happened in that week aside from what I’ve been able to read since that time of what I’m told is “my own account.”
Who would brainwash a toddler to erase his memory of such interesting and potentially life-changing events? I’m as much disgusted and alarmed as I am inclined to suspect that my own parents drugged me to erase my memory of the event, but as to why I can’t even begin to guess, though that may be because of a subsequent series of reason-erasing drugs that haven’t even yet hit the market.
Don’t discredit drugs that haven’t hit the market yet, those were precisely the ones that helped Barry Bonds hit half the all-time records he currently holds (all of them without their due asterisks, I’d like to point out).
If you are considering a trip to Vancouver, BC with your small children, consider any number of the following articles as good, beginning guidelines as to what you should see and where you should start your voyage.
Day in the Sun for Non-Packing Dog
As is common around the Perplexing office here it seems we're knee-deep in preparations for yet another business vacation trip. Also, as is so common around here, I'm bee busy sunning myself while the frantic parents are a' prepping and a' packing.
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Bright Lights, Big Kiddies
Today we climbed in the Daddy-wagon and headed up north with passports and birth certificates curiously in tote. Little did we know we were fleeing the country, for however temporarily it may be. I don't think we're under investigation, but my investigation says this place is pretty slick.
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Howard Johnson Keeps Kids (in) Safe(s)
No trip is complete without a stay in a strange bed, and our trip to Vancouver may now be considered complete because we got us a highrise room where we can bathe, rest, refresh and consider ourselves safe. Maybe too safe; you might argue but maybe that's just good ol' Howie for you.
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Mini-Train Museum Boasts Mega Fun
I am only surprised by something maybe two or three times a day, but upon our wandering of Granville Island in Vancouver, Canada, I was really surprised. Not just really surprised, but really, really so, and pleasantly at that. They've got miniatures!
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Vacation Equally Exhilarating, Exhausting
We've been hitting the greater Vancouver, Canada metro now for the better part of a million-billion years and it's all kinds of footloose, fancy, carefree fun, but out of nowhere me and the brother men are flat out bushwhacked.
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Vacay Teaches Vocab Without Meaning
I'm always up for whatever and I always love learning new thingy-doos. Specifically* I love converting my expansive passive vocabulary into an active vocabulary. If you didn't know, it's possible to say things out ioud yourself that you've previously only heard.
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Won-Ton Destruction at Foo's Ho Ho
I know this may be hard to believe but there are restaurants out there that, sweet & sour as they may be, actually expect you to eat with chopsticks. That's a tough chicken nugget to swallow, I know, but what's even more unbelievable is that one of these restaurants is actually called Foo's Ho Ho Restaurant, and I'll assure you, we were the "foos."
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Chinese Garden Best This Side of Beijing
At the edge of Vancouver's Chinatown, barely a block from the night market and Foo's Ho Ho Chinese restaurant lies the most ultimate, complete, beautiful and authentic Chinese garden I've ever seen... well at least on this continent.
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Vancouver's Street People Less Smelly, More Juggling
What a difference a hundred-odd miles can make in culture, nationality, and caliber of street people. Where I live the biggest talent I see in beggars is poorly scribbled* signs of plea. But in Vancouver, BC they're truly talented.
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Grouse Mountain Sounds Grouchy, Certainly Isn't
Amidst our Vancouver vacation we departed to delight in the joys of Grouse Mountain, an allegedly stellar ski resort now devoid of snow as is seasonally expected. Attraction reps often talk up or lie about their benefits, but this place did the unimaginable opposite. They under-promised, over-delivered, failed to lie and gave us about three times our money's worth.
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Capilano Bridge Wobbly, Suspenseful
With our energy and attentions waning we ventured to hit one last big attraction in Vancouver before heading back out on the open & closed road. One could veritably argue we saved the best for last, but one could varitably argue just about anything they wanted, couldn't they?
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Luncheon Degrades to Blame-Game, Popcorn Feast
Man oh man oh Manitoba, what painfully little good can ever come from a work luncheon? We productive types around the Perplexing office gathered for a brainstorm session, but ultimately little was accomplished save for the consumption en masse of the very popcorn meant to keep us happy.
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And when you’re visiting Canada, consider all those indigenous folks to be a lot like Oregonians. They’ll ask you why you elected Bush (regardless of how or if your vote was cast) and tell you all about what it is that you (personally) did to destroy world security. What can I say, they have a distaste for war, invasion, subjugation and therefore, obviously, any remote sense of reason… Seriously, it’s our due responsibility to invade the whole world for whatever justifiable reasons, real or imagined, that we see fit, right?
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