Day Two- 20 degrees

This is the view from our room yesterday morning....that is a sea plane landing. Pretty cool.

When we got to our hotel room it was a bit warm, so I wanted to turn on the AC. After getting it on, I adjusted the temperature....the highest it went was like 30 degrees! Uh oh, we are in metric land. I set it at 20 degrees and we got ready to go out. We checked the weather and guess what...it was going to be 20 degrees that day. (we still had no idea what that means and felt like stupid Americans if we asked). We went on with our day, which was comfortable with a cool sea breeze. (I think I figured out the formula for the conversion now). Oh yeah, it is going to rain like 17 cm somewhere in Canadia sometime soon...how about that!

Ok, enough about feeling stupid. We had a great day yesterday. Spent the morning on Granville Island at the public market checking out and eating lots of interesting stuff, and browsing shops in the other areas of the island. We took a water ferry off the island and had a nice walk accross Vancouver back to the hotel.

We then headed off to Stanley Park, named after the Stanley Cup which the Canuks want to win (not really, but they are named after the same guy) It is a beautiful 1000 acre park with a world class aquarium and totem poles and lots of other stuff. We rode around on one of those tourist busses that you could get on and off of.

For dinner wen walked to Gastown bought some Olympic souveniers and ate at http://www.socialatlemagasin.com/

We board the ship sometime after noon this morming and sail at 5:30. Dont know how much internet access we will have or what it will cost...we will see. Wish us luck!

Oh yeah, its going to be in the mid 70's most of the time we are in Alaska...we definately over packed!