We woke up to rain today & it hasn't really stopped all day. We wanted to use the second day of our hop on hop off bus ticket today. The last bus driver we had told us the first bus would get to the Colosseum (the library) in the street behind us at 9.23am. We got there before 9.20am but after 15mins no bus had come. We were heading for Gastown & knew it wasn't far away so we decided to walk there. The rain wasn't heavy but it was the fine constant rain t...

We decided to go to the Capilano Suspension Bridge & Grouse Mountain today. We had seen a tour that took in both but we also knew we could do it by ourselves. We checked with our concierge who advised us to walk up to the Hyatt and get on the free shuttle to Capilano Bridge. From there we could catch a public bus to Grouse Mountain. We made it to the Hyatt in time to get on the 9.05am bus. We were at Capilano before 9.30am. There weren't a lot of people there...

We totally misread the weather today. It was so warm in our room because the fire had been on all night. When we got outside, the sun was out and it felt pretty good with a light fleece and a coat on. By the time we had found a cafe for breakfast & walked back to the street to get the hop on hop off bus, the sun had gone & it seemed to be getting colder. We expected the bus would be heated but it wasn't. In fact, there were a couple of windows open. We de...

What a long day! The flight from Sydney was uneventful but there wasn't much sleep to be had. I don't know why. I like that particular flight because there is usually a lot of 'lights out' time but there were some very noisy people on board. When we got to LAX, the usual immigration queue was there but after a while a lady told our line to go up to the US residents queue which was practically empty. Once we cleared immigration we headed to Terminal 2 where Westje...