On Thursday we went to Metrotown to find a place where Lou could get her nails done. She'd been looking for a place since we got here but she's had trouble finding a place that does acrylic ones. Finally after many unsuccessful calls to other places she found a place located inside Metropolis. I waited an hour and a half (because I'm patient like that!) whilst she had them done and by the time we left I felt a bit light headed from the smell! Lou said that they do it slightly different to how it's done in the UK (if you know about acrylics - they do the pink first and then the white instead of the other way round, it that makes any sense?). I just kept my head down and played on my iPhone whilst sitting in the waiting chair, thankfully nobody assumed I was there for any treatment myself so all awkward conversations were avoided!
On Friday we wanted to go on a mini exploration so we headed downtown on the Skytrain and then took a bus near to Granville Island. We got slightly lost in South Granville for a little bit and ended up walking in the wrong direction for a while, though it wasn't too bad as the area seems really nice and it was good to have a look around. Lou was insisting she'd worked out the way but I felt dubious as we were walking uphill and didn't think it would be logical to walk uphill for an island - and I was right! It was another scorcher so we headed into Starbucks and had a Green Tea and Lemonade whilst we used Google Maps to figure out exactly where we were. Once we had finally worked out the way to go we left behind Starbucks and it's fantastic A/C and walked down towards our destination, walking through a nice pond area on the way.
Since we've got here we've been drinking the local beer made by the Granville Island Brewery, which not surprisingly has it's original factory still on Granville Island. We did the tour of the factory in 2005 whilst on holiday here but decided since it was fun we'd do it again. By this point it was already 1:30pm and there was a tour running at 2pm so we didn't have to wait long. It cost us $9.75 each for the tour then afterwards we were given a taster session where we got to drink four different samples of their beer, including one limited edition - Raspberry Beer which was unique to say the least. We sat with some Canadians who had driven over from Kelowna and as they were driving back home they didn't want to drink - so we ended up having their share of beers too! We also got talking to two other Canadians who were originally from Alberta, one was here for the summer and the other was living in Victoria but had come over to visit her. We started chatting and after the taster session we went and got our own table and had some more beers, then another, then another....! Lou exchanged contact details and we have arranged to meet up again sometime in the future We finally left the brewery at 8pm, feeling slightly inebriated. We caught the bus back into downtown and then went for meal at a chain restaurant called White Spot before heading home on the Skytrain.
Today has been a bit of a slow one, we didn't get up until late after the busy day yesterday. I needed slightly more recovery time than Lou. We headed to the shops briefly this afternoon (to get a refund for an item we purchased that was broken) and then quickly had a walk around the city before going home. I have also thankfully found a substitute for Sky Sports News, we get a channel called Fox Sportsworld Canada with our cable TV package and they do a comprehensive Soccer Report in the evening, brilliant!
Below are some photos that we took from yesterday.
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