Wednesday 28 September 2011

We went on holiday! (Please forgive long post)

Adventurous adventurers that we are, we separately headed to Squamish at the weekend. This will be a long post!
Adam arrived on Thursday and kept himself busy, which included a very wet day walking to the top of the 'Chief', which he rock climbed a few bits of a few weeks ago. I arrived on Friday, seeing the same views from the greyhound that Adam pictured in a previous post. It really is a fantastic view as you drive up. The Chief is much bigger than it looks!
We had dinner at the Inn and watched 'Cliffhanger' *snort*. Next day we got up and walked to Shannon Falls, but before we got there, we saw the Rocky Mountaineer train, and SALMON! Swimming UPSTREAM! Like what they do on NATURE PROGRAMMES! Absolutely fascinating, and you feel tired just watching the poor blighters battle the current. We're going to have to rename this blog adam and daisy spend too much time considering salmon. Moving on, we looked at salmon, ahem, shannon falls, after having taken a very upsy downsy trail route, looking at some potential bouldering climbs on the way.  Upon arrival we saw a man in a suit amongst other tourists, from the tourbus parked round the corner. Pfft. Anyway, big impressive waterfall. Wander back to Inn, via some more potential bouldering climb routes - too soggy to use, so we flopped around feeling tired for a bit, then ONWARDS TO ROCK CLIMBING ADVENTURES!
I'm sure Adam will put the correct climbery info on here in due course. (He's out at a tupperware party equivalent for outdoors shops workers.) Basically, he and a chap from the Inn who he met on his previous visit clambered up some rocks near the Inn, using all sorts of pretty tools, then we walked a bit further, and they clambered up some different rocks, where there were some other people clambering up too. I was official photographer until I got fed up with the shutter on the camera - only half of it closes when I switch the camera off now. Never mind.
After lots of rocks had been climbed, we had dinner at fancy brewing company, which was very good, then listened to live music in the bar next door. Also good.
Sunday was a wash out. We went for a wander down to the deserted and tiny marina, and were so wet, we decided to mooch back via coffee shop and supermarket, and flop back at the inn. Deeply frustrating that we couldn't leave any earlier than 6pm! We were therefore very prompt for the greyhound on the return to Vancouver. Nothing so nice as taking off wet socks after wearing them all day.
And now we're back at work. And it still mostly rainy. Spirits are up, as we get our change of scenery next week, with a new short term flat.
Love to all, photos coming next.

By the by, the answers from the last post were Pantene (well done anonymous commenter) and Nissan!

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