Vancouver

Being that we were in Seattle, we decided to stop in Vancouver. Believe it or not, we were able to tour most of Vancouver within a day's time. Well, the day started with us finding out that we had to pay $ 70 for 2.5 days at our hotel!! That really hurt! Note to self - the next time we travel, figure out if a car is really necessary. The whole reason why I rented the car in the first place was so that we can drive to Vancouver. Well, we didn't need the car for the entire trip! I should have just rented for the day! So we wasted parking fee as well as rental fee!

OK..back to our Vancouver day. The husband drove and I accompanied him. The drive itself took about 2.5 to 3 hours which included a stop at the Canadian border with the Canadian patrol man asking us where we were from and what we were doing in Canada.

So what was our first destination? LUNCH! It was close to noon and we hadn't had breakfast so we were definitely hungry. I was about to do research on where to dine in Canada for breakfast/lunch. The first destination:

Paul's Place

2211 Granville Street

Vancouver, BC V6H 3G1, Canada

604-737-2857

There was a line but it wasn't too bad. The restaurant itself is on a quaint corner on Granville Street. There are shops on Granville Street like Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware. Back to our order, the husband ordered a Spanish omelette with toast and berry jam.

I ordered a mushroom eggs benedict on one slice of bread and pototaes.
I also ordered a Spinach salad with sliced egg, bacon, mushrooms in vinaigrette dressing that the husband and I shared.
The food was yummy! I throughly enjoyed our lunch and would definitely recommend this place for those who plan to stop by Vancouver. After lunch, we toured Granville Street before heading out. Then we headed to Capilano Park to walk on a suspension bridge. For $ 30 a person to walk on this bridge and tour their park, I would say it's not really worth it but, hey, we were on vacation.

After Capilano, we toured Stanley Park in our car. Did I mention it was raining in Vancouver? No? Well, it rained. (See that couple in the above picture with the umbrella.) Anyway, we made several stops here and there throughout Stanley Park.

After that, we headed to Chinatown, bought rambutans for the husband to munch on. OK, I munched on some of the rambutans as well. We also saw the people getting ready for the night market but we did not stay for it. I do think that the Chinatown in Vancouver is much better than the one in Los Angeles. There are a lot more stores and Chinatown spreads to several blocks. However, Chinatown still feels Chinatown. I guess it wouldn't be call Chinatown then. To elaborate, Chinatown is still dirty, grimmy and there are hobos walking the streets.

After Chinatown, we headed to downtown for dinner. (Sorry no pictures of our dinner.) I did not research on dinner places so we just stopped by an Italian restaurant (more like a pizza joint). The husband and I split a pizza, a salad and dessert.