Day 16 – Saturday August 21, 2010 – Vancouver
Kilometres: 7.8
Time: 10 minutes
Weather:
Another perfect, sunny day in Vancouver. 18 C at 9 AM
I was a bit behind in my emails, so I got up early and started replying to growing number in my inbox. Then I quickly packed up some clothes and rode out to visit my cousin Ian and his family for a pancake breakfast. It turned into a late breakfast, as I didn’t get there until almost 10 AM (Oooopps!) As soon as I parked my bike everyone came out to see it. The two kids put on my motorcycle gloves (I brought both pairs – one pair for each) and then sat them on the bike.
The bike is waaay too big for them, but it was great. We were all laughing and having fun. After a perfect breakfast, the five of us jumped in the car and went to Lynn Valley where we walked over the swinging bridge over the valley. The water was low, so it made the valley look even deeper. The fire rescue crews were there practicing their technique. It was all down hill from there, or for about 10 minutes as we hiked along the well wore forest trail to another bridge, but this one didn’t swing. It was really neat watching the water flow over the rocks and form eddies. Of course, what goes down must go up, and up, and up. Man that was a lot of stairs. I’m really out of shape because I’ve been sitting on a bike for the last couple weeks, but I made it up the steep slope without losing my breath.
The afternoon’s major activity was going to the car show, where old Jaguars, MG and British motorcycles were put on display by local car clubs. There were about 30 cars and half a dozen motorcycles. We looked under the hoods, and in the interior, and had a fun time comparing the different models and years.
We made it back to the house a bit early, so the kids and I played Wii before the entire family arrived for dinner. Originally we were going to have a BBQ, but the weatherman called for rain (he was wrong) so the nine of us stayed inside for a wonderful meal. All of us talked, and laughed, and had a really fun time.
But time flew by too quickly and soon people started to leave. But not before we had a good family portrait.
Soon, everyone had either left or gone to bad, except for my cousin and I. We stayed up for a while, and chatted, and we also made a slight change in my homeward journey.
