Panoramic Canada

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Here are the panoramics that I made from this trip.

View of Northern Vancouver and Downtown area.

British Columbia Parliament Building

Sleeping Indian Mountain

 

Day 9

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Tuesday July 20, 2010

Today is the day we fly home! Bye Bye Canada!
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A story to tell....

So we fly home today and went to the airport at 1 in the afternoon. Our flight home isn't direct flight. We will be stopping in Portland and transfer... so here are the things that go wrong. Starting from Canada to Portland.

Sitting in the plane in Canada. We don't take off because not everyone is on board. Then this lady comes on. Okay now we are taxing out of the airport, ready to take off when... the lady yells out "I want to get off". Plane stops and the lady gets off. I think she felt sick or whatever. I know people were pretty ticked off. She was the last one off and we were delayed for 1/2 hour because she wanted to get off.

Now landing in Portland... our next flight to Honolulu already started boarding and we were still getting off the plane from Vancouver (which was and hour flight by the way). We get off the plane and run into the terminal finding the gate for our next flight.

Scary part, we are taxing out of the terminal again when all of a sudden the plane goes back. HUH?

Apparently when the plane started up there was this really strong diesel smell (even I smelt it) and some people up front saw ashes flying into the cabin. Ooo. Then we all had to get off the plane so they could find our the problem. The flight was delayed for two hours. We were supposed to take off at 4: 45 but we ended up boarding around 6. What happened? I think they said the fan was broken or something, I was too tired and groggy. Ended up arriving in Honolulu at 12:30 a.m. We were supposed to be home by 8: 45 or something...

How scary. At least I am home safely now.

 

Day 8

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Monday July 19, 2010

Today we went to Vancouver Island (Victoria) on a one day tour. We rode on a big ferry for 90 minutes to get there. It's really cool. The tour bus drove onto the ferry and we got out from there. Decks 1,2,and 3 are for the cars and stuff. Then decks 5, and 6 are for passengers. The highlight for today was Butchart gardens. we also went to the wax museum, the British Columbia Parliament Buildings, and the Empress hotel. Tomorrow we will be heading home.


 

Day 7

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Sunday July 18, 2010

Today  we went to Burnaby mountain Rose garden, visited SFU (Simon Fraiser University), saw the big elegant houses on the British property and went shopping in Richmond and ate at Richmond's "Little Hong Kong". That's all for today. 

 

 

Day Six

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Saturday July 17,2010

Back in Vancouver today. Such a beautiful Saturday morning. Today we went touring around Vancouver. Basically it's the same places as always. The places we went today: Queen Elizabeth Park, Grandville Island, Stanley Park(Prospect Point), UBC ( University of British Columbia), UBC Rose Garden, ate lunch at this really yummy congee/wonton noodle place, and had dessert at International Ice cream Inc. There are a total of 215 flavors of ice cream and you could take little samples of each. There were way out flavors like pumpkin, wasabi, curry, and Raspberry Jalepeno(which was spicy). I shared with my family. We each got a different flavor and ate some of everyone else's. I have guava strawberry, tiramisu, mint chip ice cream and I personally had a jasmine flavored ice cream. Mmm jasmine flavored ice cream is so yummy! I was also thinking that today we visited a college. They said between your junior and senior year you should do some college visitation if you ever go on a trip. I did that! UBC is huge, and I don't know if I would decide to go there....

 

Day Five

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Friday July 16,2010

Today we didn't do much. Mostly we were on the bus, heading back to Vancouver. Yes, today is the fourth day. We woke up at 5:45 a.m, this is so we can get back to Vancouver by 7:00 ish. We stopped at Clear Water and saw a waterfall. To be exact it was the Wells Grey Provincial Park and the waterfall is called Spahats Falls.  Then we went to Kamloops and visited the Kamloops Ginseng Factory. The last stop was Mt. Robson the highest point of the Canadian Rockies.
Mt. Robson

700+ miles back to Vancouver!

 

Day Four

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Thursday July 15, 2010

Today was an exciting day. I would say it was the hightlight of the whole 4-day road trip. This morning we headed back into Banff and had breakfast at the Thai restaurant. No... they didn't give us a Thai breakfast. They gave us a very American breakfast: scrambled eggs, sausage, bread, bacon and fries. Yum, Yum. On our way to the first site, we saw rams?



After seeing rams on the side of the road, we went to our first stop. Lake Louise Gondola Ride. I think it's called Lake Louise Ski Resort viewing...Supposed to have the best grizzly bear viewing and scenery in the rockies. Didn't see any grizzlies though. There were two ways to go up: in a chair or in a little cable car. I chose the car. I would freak out so much if I went up in the chair. Every so often the line suddenly stops for people at the station to get off, this causes everyone else on the line to sudden jerk and sway.... Good thing I chose the cable car. When you got up to the top, you really could see a really pretty view. It was a 15 minute ride up and down 2088 meters.

rode up the mountain in this cable car.

View from ontop,  many tourist groups (including ours) up there at the same time.

View going down


Next stop was the Columbia Icefield. We actually walked ontop of a glaicier. It was so cool and not to mention cold. We were on the bus and all along the way you would see these white mountain tops. That's because there is ice covering it. I never would've imagined we would actually be able to walk on one. The glacier we went on was the Athabasca Glaicier. It is 300 meters thick of ice. It's really cold and slippery. The interesting thing was the ice is a light blue color. Defintely different from the average ice. It sparkled too when the sun shone across the surface. Melting ice on the glaicier created little rivers of water. We were told before hand to bring empty bottles so we could fill it up with the glacier water. I even saw someone washing their face.
Crow's Claw Glaicier


Flying Snow Bird Glacier

Athabasca Glacier

From afar...
From bottom of mountain...Athabasca Glacier


Our final stop was Jasper National Park. We were able to see a pretty waterfall. It was better than the one we saw the day before.



We also saw this at Jasper National Park right after we saw the waterfalls. This is known as the "Sleeping Indian" Look closely at the white peaks of the mountains. There is the eyes, nose, chin and tummy.  Can you see it?
I made a panoramic picture of this one.

 

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