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(Sophie) - Busy day today. We went on old fashioned trolley bus. It took us around the city and up to Stanley Park. we saw lots of totem poles. These were really interesting. My favourite one had two children poking their heads out from a bears ears. We saw lots of huge Cedar trees (my class at school was Cedar!) - one had two new trees growing out of it. another that had been blown down had plants growing out of its stump and another was a huge hollow one and had been nailed together as it was 1000 years old.
We went on the beach and saw lots of shells. Belle reached out into the water and pulled out a massive seaweed. I saw loads of really tiny crabs. One nipped my finger but daddy caught one for me to hold.
We hopped back on the bus and headed to Granville Island. We passed a window cleaner on a tall building that was swinging down on a rope from the roof like Spider-man.
The bus doesn't go on to the island so we boarded a tiny ferry. That was fun. Granville Island was very big and full of markets including a kids market! I bought a bendy stick man and a squidgy Hulk. We had lunch there and ice cream (raspberry and white chocolate - yum, yum.) Granville Island is like a mixture of Covent Garden and the South bank in London with all its street performers and markets. I saw a REAL pirate getting on to his boat - he had a REAL wooden peg leg!
We had pizza for dinner outside Vancouver Art Gallery and listened to street music. We found a big statue in the shape of a head with loads of chewing gum stuck to it. People are allowed to add the gum they are not being naughty. I stuck some on his neck in the shape of an S. On the statue's moustache there were twelve wasps feeding on the gum! Someone had put some gum on in the shape of a ghost head. If you look at the statue too long you start to feel sick!
We saw a TV series being filmed - The Flash!
We also saw people practising their dancing on the ice rink (no ice in the summer) including some epic break dancing and robot dancing!
(Belle) - In the morning we went to a restaurant for breakfast. I had an almond croissant. After that we caught a Trolley bus to Stanley Park. Our first stop was the totem poles. The totem poles were amazing - my favourite was the bird ones with a big bird on the top. There were some huge trees in the park.
At the beach I picked up a massive piece of seaweed from the sea. We made seaweed bracelets out of it! They felt very sloppy and weird.
We took a ferry to Granville Island. There were lots of food stalls. For lunch I had a blueberry scrumpet and a strawberry swirl ice cream.
Then we went back to the hotel and went swimming. I went in a bubbly hot tub - too hot for me though!
Later me and Sophie went to fetch ice cubes by ourselves from this big machine in the hotel.
We are going on a fast boat today!
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Emma That gum statue looks a bit disgusting! It sounds like you are having a brilliant time!