We got off the ship on Monday morning pretty easy - and even enjoyed one last breakfast on board. We were able to stash our luggage for free at the Pan Pacific. And then we took a free shuttle bus to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. It's well over 100 years old and is a cool park on two sides of the canyon over the Capilano River. We had fun wandering around their Cliffwalk, the bridge itself and the rest of the park in the woods.
From Capilano, we took a public bus to Grouse Mountain. We took the red gondola car up the mountain and the blue one back down. The red car is big enough for strollers, wheelchairs and bikes (there is a big bike trail up top).
We also ate lunch at the top and had a great view.
From there we rode the free shuttle bus back to Canada Place in time to see the Wonder head out again on its next sailing.
Then we took the public bus over to Stanley Park - it's a huge city park on an island in the bay. There's a statue of Lord Stanley at the entrance - in addition to being the Stanley of hockey's Stanley Cup, he was the Governor General of Canada for five years. We visited the rose garden and the seawall (and watched a playful otter).
Then we went back to the hotel and picked up our luggage - we had to get cash out of the atm to tip. And we walked two blocks over to the train station to take the monorail to the airport.
Our flight was supposed to take off at 10pm but ende dup being delayed until the next morning due to American Airlines having issues network wide. So instead of sleeping on the floor, we grabbed one of the last rooms at the airport hotel.
We got up at 2:30am to be downstairs at 3am before our 6am flight. We went thru ticketing fast but they have a different system and we had to take our bags through their general security. Which didn't open until 4am. So we were first in line and camped out for a while.
When we made it to the gate, we still had plenty of time so we finally tried Canada's Tim Horton coffee.
Very good!
