Vancouver!

[etakyma]

So Vancouver is lovely, even in the rain. I've been here for a week and seen the sun twice. The hotel is also lovely, and the people are fabulous. Can I say on the whole, I love Canadians? I got off the plane last week with a tiny little dry cough that has morphed into the bronchial honking cough from hell. Our main hotel contact went out and got me cough medicine and Tylenol One (which has codiene in it) because it is provincial law that if the pharmacist isn't there to help you, you can't get cough medicine. And any time I am out of the hotel, of course the pharmacists have gone home.

The Vancouver Aquarium is AMAZING! I love the Pacific white-sided dolphins (Spinnaker and Laverne!), the Beluga Whales, the sea otters! They are so cool. They have pygmy marmosets in the Amazon exhibit, and they are the funniest little monkeys!

So to entertain you all here: Beluga Cam!

I spent more than a few minutes in the Off the Coast of BC exhibit being mesmerised by the moon jelly fish as they moved with the gentle upward current. The sharks were fierce and the caiman alligators were creepy in that they looked like statues, and you just knew they were biding their time.

I go home on Saturday... I can't wait to be in my own bed, but I will miss this pretty area - what a great place!