Thursday, August 4, 2011

AN UPDATE IN VANCOUVER

We left LA at 9 and got to Vancouver by 11:30.  Easy flight.  Glenn met us at the airport, and we drove to his house.  Our first day, we walked up to Broadway and had lunch at the Banana Leaf, a Mallasian restaurant.  Later, we went to Tattilow Park and Kayley played on the slides. She's gotten so much better in the last six months.  She can really climb up all sorts of ladders and had no problem with slides - huge change.  For dinner we walked up and got sushi at a great place on Broadway and Balaclava.

Tuesday,  after breakfast, we drove over to Grenville Island.  Our original goal was to replace our daily tea pot that has had a bit of a difficult time of it recently (broken lid).  We also had a goal of buying groceries for dinner Tuesday night and Wednesday.  While Kayley and Krystie went to the children's park, Charlie and I stomped around finding things on the shopping list.  There were the largest cherries I have ever seen. We got some, hard not to, a pyramid of monster cherries is really a draw.  We found Kayley and Krysty later.


We had lunch at Grenville at the "Juice Shop".  They have Vietnamese wraps with smoked salmon (my special Grenville Island treat), they also had some salads which were delicious.

When Kayley went down for her nap, Charlie and I walked back to Broadway.  We first stopped at the tea shop and got some of their great English Breakfast Tea.  We also stopped at Safeway for more supplies.  I made orange chicken for dinner - great day.

Yesterday, we went to Bloeddell Conservatory.  Kayley chased around the circular route, and we watched birds.  After our chase around the interior paths, on the way back to the car, Kayley had a bit of a splash in the fountain.  It really is a great fountain.



We then went to a vegetarian Indian restaurant.  Delicious lunch.  And we picked up samosas for dinner.

During Kayley nap time, Charlie and I, again, tromped up to Broadway.  This time we stopped at the children's bookstore, then we picked up wine and beer for dinner.

At 5 Jim and Christie Tiempo came for dinner.  Glenn had cooked up a portabello mushroom dish and a barbequed chicken.  Both were really wonderful.  We had the samosas as well.  That was a GREAT indian restaurant, they were great.  Glenn made flan for dessert - he's good at that too.

Thursday, today, we went up to Glenn and Krystie's.  I walked Holly first thing (it's kind of my morning routine).  I'll finish our day later.