We leave on the cruise ship tomorrow for Glacier Bay and Alaska and are looking forward to all the sights we’ve been promised we’ll see.  This coming week should be more relaxing – we get to unpack and settle into our state room for 7 days, instead of having to repack and move off to the next destination each morning. Means we might get a sleep in now and then too.

Mixed feelings really. I am missing home and this will be our longest holiday in a long time.  But also am enjoying our trip so much and this next leg of our tour is the last leg.  Although I’ve been looking forward to the cruise because it will also mean being able to totally relax it also means we’ll be heading back home soon too.

We have friends meeting us on the day we dock back into Vancouver and we’ll spend 2 days and 1 night with them before boarding the plane to come back home.

Today we went on a tour of Stanley Park and Granville Island and then were free to wander at leisure in the afternoon so Graham and I walked along the marina and shore of Vancouver to Stanley Park, and then back again. Watched heaps of seaplanes land and take off (every 60 seconds or so it seemed) and saw a couple of blue herons, many Canadian Geese, lots of inter sting looking boats, a team of row boats practicing in the waters and so on.

This might be the last post for a week – depending on what internet access is like on the ship.  I’ve been told it is quite expensive so will have to wait and see.  Otherwise I’ll catch up with you all probably on our return home.

In the meantime, enjoy these pics by clicking on the image below.  I expect this one will play with your head a bit. Can you figure out how it was done?  And yes, the water was running from the tap to the can. We saw it at Granville Island in a store dedicated to gardening ornaments.