The bus dropped me and a few other passengers off in front of the Fairmont Vancouver Hotel, very impressive looking place too.  I check into my room, find out how far it is to walk to the Rosedale to pick up my battery.  Oh did I tell you they did find it?  Well, they did and I am now going to retrieve it and save myself some dough by not having to buy another spare.

It's not a far walk so I figure I can do that until I had taken 2 steps from the hotel, where I am asked by an American "tourist" if I can help him, he has a map in his hand, I showed him mine and said, "sorry mate, I'm probably as lost as you".   He told me which way I needed to go and said he'd walk part way with me, but before that could he ask me for more help.  I'm sure some, if not  all, of you have come across the old sob story somewhere around, this one wasn't very imaginative, he'd been having coffee in the coffee shop round the corner and had his wallet stolen, his passport, credit cards and cash blah blah and he was to catch a flight in 2 hours and needed bus fare to get to the airport.  Yeah Right Mate, I was born at night but it wasn't last night.  At least the guy in Perth says his girlfriend has gone into labour and he needs the money to call a taxi.  What ever happened to calling an ambulance? That number's free.  Anyway, another fun experience on my travels, can't let the trip get boring now can we.

By now it's starting to get rather dark and I know I'm going to get lost so back to the hotel, grab a cab and get there and back a lot quicker than if I'd have walked it.  Now it's  time for dinner, I seem to be doing a lot of eating these days, but the food is so good, and no cooking or washing dishes is wonderful.  Back in my room and time to load photo's and get connected to the net to check and send emails and hit the sack.  Breakfast in the restaurant and a final wander around Vancouver.  No sign of snow today though, the weather must have known I was due back on the mainland and sent the sun instead.  I walked to the bottom of the street where I had seen glimpses of the harbour from my window.  It's a beautiful day for a walk and I have an hour and a half to kill.  There is a building on the harbour called Canada Place, it is built in the shape of a ship and their is a story to the sails that at the moment escapes me, but I will check it out on the net and put it here at a later date.

On my way back I went down a different street where I passed a store front that had animated characters from Narnia in the windows.  I took some photo's but being on a main road you can see reflections from the street, I just hope you can see beyond those to the actual subject of the photo.

Back to the hotel and grab a cab to take me to the station for my Jasper trip.