Almost Canadians for life!
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Aug 3, 2008
It has been an eventful day in the life of the Staveleys. It all started with an early morning wake up call from a friend in the US. I completely forgot that I was international so who knows how much that call will be. Oh well! We all dozed off for awhile so that was good, but that meant another late start. We're getting pretty bad at those.
Vancouver is a beautiful city, but unfortunately very cool and cloudy the days we were there. Not sure if we experienced the beauty of it all. After we checked out, we needed breakfast and finally found a Dennys and found parking. Unfortunately it was metered and we had no Canadian money, but we found that US money worked fine. YAY!
I had noticed though as we had driven around looking for parking and as we entered the restaurant that there were a lot of rainbow flags around. Turns out it was Pride Week in Vancouver and we were in the thick of it. That made for interesting conversation with Michael as we explained homosexuality to him.
After breakfast, we headed to Stanley Park which is beautiful. The woods there were gorgeous and so many redwood trees. We drove around the whole park and snapped a few pics of the totem poles and the harbour. It was cool!
We decided to head back to Seattle as we expected it would be a bit of a wait at the border crossing. We got going and then Michael needed to go to the bathroom. We had to get off the freeway and finally we found a bathroom. It was getting close to 12pm at this stage, but we were doing fine. We finally found our way back to the freeway and headed for the border. The sign said 8 miles to the border and at about 5 miles we hit the line that was at a complete standstill. We ummed and aahed for a bit and then decided to turn around and head the way we had come yesterday.
It was getting towards lunch time so we stopped for lunch and found our way back to the border crossing we came through yesterday. At the same time the day before, the line out of Canada was about 10 cars long, maybe less. Today it was easily a 100 cars. Fortunately it was a beautiful day so we rolled down the windows, turned off the car and read thinking it would be 45 minutes or so. Well, 2 hours later we FINALLY crossed the border. For awhile there we thought that we were going to be Canadians for life!
Well, unhappy events were not over for the Staveleys, NO they weren't. That would be too simple and easy. Unfortunately, we took the wrong freeway in Seattle and ended up going in the opposite direction that we wanted to. We finally got that sorted, but that was extremely frustrating as it was now 6:30pm and we were getting hungry. Well, the day wasn't finished with us yet. We decided to go to IHOP for dinner and set the GPS. For some reason "Daniel" got confused and we had to do three U-turns, but finally made it. Whew!! We are now resting and re-energising at our friends' house before we head to Portland tomorrow. What a day!
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