Hi,
It is still 90 degrees here on Vancouver Island.  The humidity is low though so it is bearable and feels good.
We went to Duncan Christian Reformed today and afterwards some asked us to come to their home for coffee.  We had a nice visit with them.  The picture of the church is not Duncan Christian Reformed Church but a church we saw outside of Duncan.  The other picture shows miles of traf
We went driving along an ocean side road but the road was lined with trees and was very very curvy so we decided to go back to Nanaimo to our motel.
Jan

Hi Everyone,

I am filling in for Jan.  She was too tired last night to write.
We spent Saturday alternating between driving short distances, waiting for ferries, and riding on ferries.  We were on ferries a total of 3 hours, waiting for ferries perhaps 4 hours, and driving the rest of the time.  From Vancouver we went as far north as Powell River then took our last ferry across The Strait of Georgia to Comox.  We then drove south on 19 to Nanaimo where we are staying for the night.  It was a pleasant trip and the weather was wonderful, but we expected to explore some of the old villages along the way and found the old villages to be quite modern.

Don & Jan

Hi,
We rode on the trolley today and got off at certain areas.  The trolley is a "hop on hop off" one.  We toured Stanley Park most of the day.  We got off at the one of the stops and started walking on the seawall surrounding the park.  We intended to get on back on again at "the point" about a mile and half away.  When we got there, there was a huge rocky cliff and we couldn't climb up it nor was there a stair so we kept on walking hoping there would be a break in the cliff to get back to the road.  Well there wasn't so we finally ended up walking five miles before we could get to a trolley stop again.  Fortunately it was a beautiful day.  Sunny, temperature in the mid 70's and a nice ocean breeze with a beautiful scenery.
We then got off the trolley near Granville Island and took a cute aquabus to the island.  We went to the market there and had lunch.
We went back again on the trolley just in time to catch the last one of the day.
Vancouver is a busy and beautiful city full of tourists.  We are not going to be sorry to leave the hectic crowded city.
Our accomodations were great.  We didn't need our car for two days.
Jan and Don

Hi,
We started the day out with a breakfast of a Dutch pancake.  If you don't know what that is, it is a very thin pancake which covers a dinner plate and has various toppings on it.  The Best Western is owned by dutch people and they had a dutch restaurant next door.  According to the yellow pages, there was a Vanden Bosch Pasterie Belgie Bakery.  When we arrived at the address, it
wasn't there.
We had reserved a hotel in downtown Vancouver with parking underneath the hotel on first come first basis so we went there next with hope of parking there while  we explored Vancouver.  So now our car will be there for two days.
Yesterday we bought a day pass on all public transportation for a day and trolley tickets for two days.  We first went on the sky train.  We stayed on it to the end and came back.  It lasted two hours.  The train is driven by computers only. 
We then went on the seabus to North Vancouver and back.  Very efficient.  It will unload and then load about 300 plus passengers in about five minutes.  One will leave the dock every 15 minutes.  We then went on the two trolley routes for about three hours.  We also went on the city bus for a while.
Vancouver is a city of apartments as you can according to the pictures.  Vancouver has mountains to one side, ocean to another and rich farmland in another direction.  They didn't want to use up farmland for dwellings so they are going up for living spaces.
We walked quite a bit too.  We are tired and looking forward to going to bed.
Jan and Don