Some more shots of North Vancouver. On our last day, our friends also took us out on a boat one of them owns ( I think John). They are great friends because it was probably the coldest day of the trip, and it's easily twenty degrees colder on an open air boat, the sea breeze peeling the skin off your face, but they endured it because nobody should leave Vancouver without experiencing it from a boat. It does look beautiful from this perspective, and we toured lots of great little harbors dotting the North shore. We even picked out a few houses we might move to if we ever got around to returning to North America. But mostly we were cold, really really cold.

We did manage to leave downtown Vancouver for a couple of days thanks to our friends. We had a great day in North Vancouver, which is beatifully situated along the harbor, but is all houses rather than apartment buildings. It's got great access to the mountains, and we hiked a bit through the awesome pine trees, and played on a famous rickety bridge crossing a ravine, which is I think the oldest bridge in Vancouver, and still working! I also remembered going to some sort of pub for a very local breakfast, and felt just like a lumberjack.