If you are interested, I have thrown together a slideshow of some of the personal images I shot during the first week of the trip. (It will take a minute or two to load up after you press play! And again these are straight out of camera images, so please excuse the dust bunnies ona couple of them!)
The show includes;
- our jet-lagged meal at our favourite north american restaurant "The Old Spaghetti Factory"! We were joined by my brother Scott and sister-in-law Bobbie, as they were already holidaying in the Vancouver area anyway, and helped out with the babysitting to Jack, while I was at the seminar.
- our trip up Grouse Mountain. This is the 2nd time we have been to Vancouver; my most outstanding memory from the 1st trip 5 years ago was ice skating in the open air while it was snowing, on top of Grouse Mountain!! This time there was no snow so it looked totally different! We watched a lumberjack show, which Jack loved, and got some amazing views of the city.
- a sea-plane trip over the city. I have never been on a seaplane before, so Scott accompanied Jack and I for a half hour trip over the city, Stanley Park, North and West Vancouver, Kitsilano and back over the Burrard Bridge before landing. Jack was so overwhelmed with it all, he fell asleep!! One minute he was wide awake, the next...gone!!
- a "Vancouver Giants" ice hockey game. We are all big ice hockey fans in this family; my father is a director of the local team "Fife Flyers" of which I have been the official photographer for in the past. And Scott and Bobbie introduced Graham and I to NHL games in 2000. We have been lucky enough to since visit a number of north american rinks, and whilst in Vancouver, we saw a Giants game, and a Canucks game. Got to admit, I would much rather have been on a night out with the rest of the Bebbinar gang that night we saw the Canucks game, it was ................ there are no words to describe how bad it was! The Giants game was excellent, draw by the end and it went to penalty shoot-outs after extra time. If you look closely at the show, you will see a brilliant sequence of the game winning goal!
Vancouver is one of my most favourite cities in the world; it has everything; the city, the beach, the forrests, the moutains, the sea; all within close proximity of each other. The people are fantastic and the weather is very much like home, probably a bit better actually!! I can see why a lot of people emigrate to there!
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