C A N A D A! "Road Trip" PT 3 of 3

(a month Y E A R later!) 

here is CANADA!

well, just the Capilano suspension bridge. cause that's all we went for. 

I know I meant to post this A YEAR AGO! but i dunno blogging has felt weird for me. i got lazy once we got back from our trip and 2018 has just been a weird year. 

and well, today marks the 1 year anniversary of Canada literally. i figured there was no better time than today to post this. 

sorry for disappearing guys! 

....anyway!

the reason we went to Canada was because i wanted to go to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. 

a friend of mine went with her husband years ago and i don't even remember how i came across it again but i decided then and there that i wanted to go. 

so in Washington, after returning a fitbit charger at target and getting a fucking speeding ticket in WA (and for some reason not eating anything other than a pastry at Starbucks), we made it to CANADA!!!

Canada.....was not what i expected. haha

i was hoping this would be like in some foresty, quiet place and.....its in the city-ish. i want to see Lake Alberta or Lake Louise or Banff (how tf do i know so many locations in Canada lol) but we stayed in the city. and not like downtown but in a very metropolitan area. 

and for some other reason after eating only more pastries and hot chocolate inside the bridge area....we made the mistake to go into downtown Vancouver (?) and well, that didn't help. 

anywho, here are some picture (very hard to just choose a few) of our time at CSB. 

Capilano is made up of 2 bridges. 

one "old school" style and one all new-ish and modern looking. 

you're basically just walking all around nature. 

this is the "old school" bridge. i guess you could also say the main one. 

they have the canyon lights that they set up and set off in November. we had made it out just shy of a week so we missed the all of it but they were setting up so we got to see some being lit.
the only difference is, they are open late into the night so we missed that.
i don't regret it though. i can only imagine how busy it gets.

they have trails you can walk and sorta tree houses that you can walk through to get from tree to tree and various lookouts.
i definitely do not recommend this if you have a fear of heights.  but otherwise, if you're in the area, i do recommend it as like a one time thing! unless you live near there; they sell yearly passes and i could imagine going just to wander around from time to time.
.....i'd love to bring my mom here.

from there on, we crossed the bridge back and went to the other side to do the Cliff Walk side. this one really hangs out the side of the mountain but you get such amazing views!!!

you find random waterfalls everywhere. 

i took a butt load of pictures buuuut let's just be glad that i made it this far.
(i bought a memory stick thing and transferred all the pics over too sooo...yea)

afterward, we were STARVING!!!! but there was nothing really in the area.
so i googled sushi and it took us into the city and it was a mess. it doesn't help that it was Friday and rush hour and that we were hangry.
we just headed back to the hotel and asked a guy working there for recommendations near by walking distance.
he told us about a pho spot and so off we went.
and we walked all up and down not finding the spot. but ya know what we did find? a shit load of sex shops.
like
a 
l o t.
it was pretty cool.

after all that we found a random Vietnamese spot and ate there.
forever I had been trying to get Ruben to eat pho with me but he wasn't a fan.
of course he would fall in love with it IN CANADA where we probably wont be back to in a very long time if ever.
 -_______-

after eating, since it was still early, we wandered around and made it into a bowling alley.
this was probably my favorite thing ever!

there were older people having the time of their life playing a very different version bowling than what I've ever seen.
it was Friday night and they were turning up!
we talked to the guy working there and he gave us the history and some facts and i thought it was just about the best thing ever.
forever remembering this.

overall, i liked what we went for and while i wasn't a huge fan of Vancouver, i do think I'd go back and get to know downtown a bit better. ...even if one entire long ass block looked like DTLA, TS NY & Las Vegas all had a baby together.

here's to a year, Canada!

the next morning, we drove back to Seattle had a few brews, hit that famous Pho spot in Seattle (but didn't get the giant pho cause you gotta make reservations) (also, the shrimp rolls were WAY better than the pho in my opinion), saw the troll under the bridge then drove back to Oregon.
we were 'sposed to stay in Washington with a friend of mine but at this point we were kinda beat and just wanted to be as close as possible to the airport so we headed back to Portland to be with my cousin....where i made the mistake of saying yes to going to the casino with my aunt. Ruben and i gambled once and then went to the car to sleep. lol

this was such a fun trip and i love reliving all the memories.
all the walks and all the places we went.

here's to hoping we get to do something like this again.

thanks for reading!