Sunday morning I went to church with the Podmore's ~ very nice service!! We then headed out to Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge for a mini-hike!! We walked over the bridge into the Lynn Canyon forest, amazing trees with moss growing like weeds on the branches ~ like a real rain forest!!! we hiked all the way down to the river, had a quick snack, then made our way to the top again!!! We then made our way to Park Royal shopping mall where we had a cafe', a few la...

We headed out to do a bit of sightseeing today!! We scouted around Granville Island Market - an indoor/outdoor food/flea market.... Great food stalls with every kind of imaginable fresh pasta on display ~ beautiful bright fruit & veg stalls, and many home industry type stalls. This opens out onto the Marina promenade, where many people were sitting around having their lunch.. very pretty scenes of downtown Vancouver from across the harbour. From there we...

I was collected from the Best Western Executive Inn in downtown Seattle by the QuickShuttle Coach www.quickshuttle.com which was to drive me up through the US and across the border to Canada. What a pleasant journey! The coach was very comfortable, and even had wifi access, so was a great opportunity for me to catch up on some of my blogging... The crossing of the border was rather uneventful ~ thank goodness. I had called immigration beforehand to check if I s...

Climbed on the bus and headed downtown to Pike Place Market for my Food & Drink Tasting Tour www.savourseattletours.com. The meeting point was at Seattle's Best coffee shop on the corner of Pike Place & 1st Avenue. We were greeted by our hostess Angela. She gave us an overview and a bit of history about the market. There were 7 of us on the tour with her, and I won the prize from coming the furtherest!!! The rest were all Americans I think the 2nd fu...

Had a great lie in this morning!!! Popped down to Starbucks for my morning coffee, then climbed onto a bus and headed down to the waterfront!!! Walked around the shops for a while, then headed down to Elliotts Seafood restuarant for lunch!!! Elliotts pride themselves on their Oysters!! As do many of the seafood restuarants in Seattle. I have never been offered so many different options of oysters anywhere else in the world!!! Very confused, so I asked the wa...