Some random observations from our first day:
- I’m not sure if it’s because we have gone from the middle of nowhere, then prim and proper Victoria with gardens everywhere, now to the city, but it seems crowded and a lot of chaos here, I guess this is our welcome back to the real world?
- Our hotel is fine (nothing like the one with a breath-right strip and sticky floors in the other Victoria, TX) but the scent in our room is kind of like a used car smell that someone tried to cover up.
- I told Alison “there are more hobos than you can shake a stick at here.” They are everywhere or at least it seems, just like Austin, however a few of them actually open doors and push people in wheelchairs into stores, so at the very least they are courteous. I’ll get the memo out to the Austin society of Hobos for thoughts on this.
- Also, I haven’t seen any plasma or flat screen TVs here, Canada loves the old CRT ones from ye olde yester year. Old TVs and VCRs – time warp. 1.21 jiggawatts makes time travel possible, Marty. Yes, that was a Back to the Future reference if you were wondering.
- We walked and walked and walked till our legs almost fell off, I’d like to write more but Alison has a schedule for us today and is telling me to hurry up but my fat fingers can’t type fast enough on this tiny computer. We will post some pics tonight. Off to Stanley Park and other what nots and what have yous in Vancouver.