Outdoor Adventures

Right now at Katie’s work there is a tourism challenge going on that gives her (plus one) the opportunity to go to all sorts of Vancouver tourist attractions for free. At each attraction she can collect a stamp , or two or three depending on how far away it is, and at the end of the challenge if she has 15 stamps she gets a pass for the whole year! And these are some cool things to do. Most of them I haven’t even done, even though I’ve lived here my whole life. There’s all these museums and gardens and just crazy stuff that you would never think of doing… or they are a little too expensive to do (which is more often the case). Since we’re going away for a couple weeks on the 22nd, and the challenge ends at the end of May, she has been dashing around like mad to get the year pass. Since she was out for a visit the past few days we decided to cross a couple off the list and we couldn’t have picked a better day. The weather was absolutely beautiful. First on the list was Minter Gardens – 2 stamps. Some waterfalls, a fairy house and checkers Us with our respective favorite tulips Walking through the gardens Then we drove a bit and went to Hell’s Gate – 3 stamps We got to take a tram across the canyon and 500 ft. down, where a restaurant, a suspension bridge, gold panning and a fudge shop awaited us. Waiting for the tram If you look really hard underneath the left side of the bridge you can kind of see a white sign. Thats where the water went up to at one point Super scary bridge We didn’t get to stay too too long at each place… the girls night we had on Thursday made for a bit of a late start… but we can always go back once Katie gets the pass for the whole year.