We headed up pretty early on Saturday morning and arrived in Vancouver just prior to noon. We managed to check into our hotel and discovered that we had a nice large room on the 21st floor! The addition of a balcony was fantastic and afforded great views of the city and of the fireworks (it was the international fireworks competition, after all.) Here’s a sampling of the photos I was able to take from our balcony:
The rest of the day was spent shopping, exploring and just enjoying Vancouver. It’s a very walkable, pretty city. The Harbour Centre is one of my favorite buildings as it is so similar to the space needle. I still haven’t had a chance to go up in it for drinks. Maybe sometime soon.
After we enjoyed some pre-funking with a bunch of people in our suite we went over to Celebrities for their annual pride party. The cover was $30 and Westbrook had been nice enough to grab them on Friday for us. Sadly, the music was not so hot at the club on this night. On the bright side… there were tons of people there! By 1:30am I was fast asleep (and from what I hear snoring LOUDLY!) Sorry Brian/Dorian. Oops.
Obviously my snoring kept Brian Kerr awake for far too long:
Sunday we had some food stuffs and then headed down to the parade route to stake out our spot. We had a nice spot in the shade right towards the end of the parade. The parade was good, not quite as good as SF… but still pretty darn good. Very few gaps – gotta love that! Several of my favorite pictures are below – click on any of them to see the rest!
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