Day 7: first full Vancouver day

started the day with a run along the sound over looking Vancouver. I had intended to do some speed in the massive park by ubc, but quickly gave up on that idea after it started with a 500 meter long hill. Turned back to the sea and had a good one along the dirt path.

From there, Kate and I took the bus to the ferry to north Vancouver. We've been using mass transit quite a bit here. It's a lot easier than driving, and much cheaper than parking. It was cool taking the ferry across the bay. Very quick and smooth. The Lonsdale quay market is right at the ferry terminal. We browsed around a bit and got some lunch. Kate had a reportedly great cup of soup. I had a decent 3 cheese grilled sandwich. There's not a ton to do immediately in north Vancouver, but we walked the neighborhoods a little, then had a drink at tap and barrel over looking the harbor.

Laid down for a little after so much walking, then headed to the museum of anthropology at the university of British Columbia. There's discounts on Tuesday evenings and while we were initially hesitant if we actually wanted to go, it was awesome. Lots of sweet totem poles and other amazing artifacts from First Nation tribes all over the world. Of course they had the largest selection of bc tribes which was really cool to see and learn about.

The campus was gorgeous as well. Actually a lot of modern architecture which I'm not often a fan of, but they had well placed brick malls and lots of tall conifers (like everywhere else up here). Dinner was a pizza joint in the kitsano neighborhood. This definitely seems like a happening area just across the bridge and south of downtown. Great pizza, wine, and beer. Wood fired.