Hampton Inn, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Odometer – 7721
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After a rainy morning of packing things and laundries we finally left the campground after 11am. We drove a whole 5km to Stanley Park, which houses a great aquarium. Stanley Park is to Vancouver what Central Park is to New York. It is large, filled with interesting things to do, and unlike NY, in some places is very wild and untamed.
We spent 3 hours at the aquarium, which has a unique offering to its patrons – white arctic beluga whales. The children loved this place, and even though Shir and Orr were very tired, they struggled to keep their eyes open and see more stuff. A nice part of the museum was their Amazon exhibit, which included butterflies, a caiman (mini alligator), and various frogs and snakes.
In the early afternoon it finally stopped raining and the sun started to peak out of the clouds, so instead of returning to the RV we walked around Stanley park a bit more. We went to the famous totem pole collection, saw downtown from the walkway and then returned to the aquarium through the marina. With the RV we completed a tour of the park, whose road system is one-way. We stopped by Hollow Tree, a huge dead Cedar that has enough room to fit a small car inside. Shir almost gave us a heart attack when she ran out into the road as a car was coming. The car stopped safely and Shir did too when she heard Paola scream.
We drove into downtown, where our hotel is located. It is actually on Robson street, which is the main street of the district, right next door to a sport arena called BC Place. There is nowhere to park an RV in downtown, so I dropped off Paola and the kids and drove back to the campground from last night to leave it there in a “storage†parking space for $15 a night (which is probably much cheaper than parking in downtown anyway). The hotel has bicycles that it lends to the guests, so I had an enjoyable return trip exercise back to the room.
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