Stanley Park - Back around again

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I'm back near Second Beach and the Second Beach Pool.

Photo taken from The City of Vancouver

Funny stuff, folks! We’ve just trekked around Stanley Park.

Details in a sec. I have to tell you this. I’m back near Second Beach, but I’m on a lawn near The Fish House Restaurant. I have only 3 CDs here in Vancouver with me (Sue will surely love this). One is Trooper’s Hot Shots, Women and Song (Import) - TOUGH to find credits for this one: www.madacy.com, www.warnerspecialproducts.com (I love this CD so, so, so much though - Thank you, J.o.s.f.), while the third is Evans & Doherty’s Much Better View. Sorry, Sue, no bang-bang-thump-thud music!

Right now, Trooper is in the laptop and I’m basically on this lawn alone, but there is a pedestrian path really close and a road for cars. I have selected this place because I want all of me in the sun except for my head so I can see this bleetin’ laptop (which also needs to be in the shade. Geeeeeez! Anyway, Hot Shots starts of with “Boys in the Bright White Sportscar”. I just pushed play and the music cut in as an elderly lady was going by. She started groovin’ and sayin’ “yeah” in a ‘fight-the-power” manner! Almost reminded me of Sue! Of course, I fee like singing “Boys on the Bright Red Scooter” instead! That one has nothing to do with you, Sue, there’s just a huge scooter population in this park at the moment.

OK, we just walked 7 kms around Stanley Park (and took the shuttle for 2 while on the cell with Sue)…and…WOW, this Windows Media Player sure sucks the juice outta this here laptop. I guess I had better type quicker or start singin’!

I took the seawall around in a counter-clockwise fashion (not sure if you looked at the map, but I started out near English Bay). There really weren’t many places to stop along the seawall to write. I know that sounds ridiculous… I mean there WERE places to stop, but nowhere that the adequate shade I require for this there was a lot of traffic. Anyway, I decided not to go into the Vancouver Aquarium as there seems to be several tour busses there and it looks to be just madness. I should really work on the weekends and do my tourist expeditions on the weekdays when there is less madness.

I think this is one of Vancouver’s primary tourist attractions (especially in the summer) because this place is uber-packed.

Oh, did you know that Washington State is The Evergreen State? Americana fer ya.

Had a great chat with Sue. I need to do a separate blog entirely for that! Anyway, Sue is in Ottawa and is has been reading my blog with Gina. These are the two lovelies (snicker, snicker) who have taught me about the Ottawa Citizen subculture. According to Sue, I need to be a little more risqué here. I guess I’ll have to introduce you all to Sascha soon.

There’s a couple just over the way here and they’re playing badminton (netless). I think they are late twenties…hang on…oops, make that early to mid twenties. They are just a nice couple out playing badminton in the park on a nice Saturday afternoon. I don’t know whether to hiss and spit (blech, blech, blech) or think it’s nice. Hmmm, cynical or idealist today? Jury’s out.

Mind you, “Two for the Show” is on, and it’s hard to feel anything but totally into it when that one plays. It’s totally keeping my mind off the car alarm that has been honking for the last 5 minutes.

This is really a cool CD to play in public because EVERYBODY knows all the songs and there is almost always a reaction from folks. I get a kick out of that for sure.

Ooo, “Here for a Good Time”… and lookadat… the badminton players are dancing!!!!! I don’t think there is a person on earth who doesn’t like that song. Seriously, can anybody name just one? I know the first thing that comes to mind for me is drinking at the Sundance Saloon under age in the ’88. Even THAT’S almost 20 years ago.

It’s a little bit weird to be thinking about when I’m going to lose power. I’ll do a better job of this back at the apartment. I’ll then be able to talk more about the things you see and do in Stanley Park.

For now, I’ll just say bad things about Sue (wink)! Sue is actually the only person I know who can travel (post September 2001) with no identification other than a German birth certificate (a big paper one, not the ‘card’ kind with photo). She’s also the only one I know who can convince the Yuk Yuk’s comedian (who called us “Sex and the City) that we were actually CIA visiting Ottawa on operations! The follies!

Of course, the Yuk Yuk’s comedians then joined us at the pub afterwards. “Raise a Little Hell”.

I am now back at my place and I am disappointed that I don't have more exciting things to say about the trip to Stanley Park today. There really is so much do to, but I just took it all in today and trekked around noticing things.

Prospect Point gives you a view of the Lion's Gate Bridge and North Van (or is it West Van?). I saw several cruise ships in the Coal Harbour area (I think that's where it was). Lots of Stanley Park's attractions and things to do are not toally visible from the seawall. It was more about views today when all was said and done. All of this is readily available on-line (I prefer not to use strangers' images - I want to credit people properly). Some key terms would be View Vancouver port, Views Stanley Park, Cruise ships Vancouver, Lion's Gate Bridge. Thanks!