I logged onto Blogger to post some tourism links I found but then started writing a post about why Canada? why Vancouver? because I know my friends think I am going only because Jensen Ackles makes a show there, and thats only the smallest reason WHY I am going. BUT I want this to be about the tourism links I found so i will save that other ramble fest till another time.
So yeah – my interest in Canada in the past has been more on the eastern side (I have had online friends based in Toronto, Firda lives ina places called Waterloo in Ontario, I am the biggest geek for the Anne of Green Gables series so Prince Edward Island is like ‘OMGAWD I HAVE TO GO THERE ONE DAY!!!’ 😀
But when I decided ‘YAY I go to Canada’ there WAS a small bit of ‘ooh tv shows i like i made there’ but a bunch of things I would like to visit in the US are on the West Coast (the main exceptions that I want to visit are New York and New Orleans) so I figured if I am gonna choose a major Canadian city to base myself Vancouver would be the better choice.
I know very little about Vancouver…well I did – I HAVE been researching (yay they have public transport which I need because i cant drive). And there is a lot more I need to research about how things work in Canada, but today I decided to look up things to do in Vancouver because I am inherently lazy and will probably most of the time be too lazy (or broke – haha) to make an effort to leave the city, so I am looking for things I can check out near there.
Anyways I found a site called Canada.Travel and I went to the lil page about Vancouver and it had a list of 10 tourist attractions. I checked out all the links and the last one is the Capilano Suspension Bridge (which OMGAWD LOOKS SO AWESOME even though I get major vertigo with heights + movement). It had a link to a page to preview what its like to visit and the page has a bunch of videos of other tourist attractions in and around Vancouver. The guys in the vids is a completely annoying prat but I now have a bunch more places I wanna visit! WOO!
~ Capilano Suspension Bridge (OH MY GOD!!! AWESOME!)
~ Burnaby Village Museum – its like Sovereign Hill in Victoria! I LOVE FAKE HISTORIC TOWNS! HISTORY GEEK-OUT!!!
~ Grouse Mountain – the vid shows stuff you can do in summer which is what I would like to do, but right now their website is showing the winter stuff. I guess I should try skiing or snowboarding or something when I go eh? I do LOVE cold weather!
~ Hells Gate Airtram – cooool!
~Minter Gardens – omgawd so pretty! Maybe take one of the dolls there for a photo shoot?
~ Vancouver Aquarium – beluga whales? cute Sea Otters? OMGAWD I WANNA SEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just found Tourism Vancouver which I am having a poke around.
I need to do a lot more research yo. If anyone knows any places in or near Vancouver I MUST visit let me know!
Umm – yeah and I only realised the other week that Vancouver is holding an Olympics in 2010…so I am heading for a city in Olympic prep…why do I do these things to myself?? ARGH!
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