Little Fox Reveals All

 Hullo! Little Fox here... I am heading over to Vancouver to pick up Sandy and his surprise package...

Are there snacks in here? Cause you know... your last sekrebeary evaluation was not great...

Apples and almonds! Excellent... and some cheese. Perfect.

Hah... my ticket says "Bear" for this sailing!

Yes, it is dark out... we are catching the first sailing of the day which means...

Some breakfast onboard! Eggs, bacon (yum) and hasbrowns... Sandy's sekrebeary is definitely pulling up her bootstraps after that scathing evaluation.

It's a bit nippy out here...

But the lights of Vancouver are showing up.

And...  now we are on the bus! The sekrebeary says it's convenient having a smaller stuffie who can fit in a jacket pocket (with a zipper)...

We met up with Paddington Bear too!

Sandy and the mystery package don't arrive until tomorrow... so I get to go on a Grand Adventure in Vancouver!! First up... the old Canadian Pacific Railway station!!

It's pretty snazzy in here... even if it is only small shops and a transit hub (seabus and skytrain).

The station opened in 1914 and the last passenger train left here in 1979.

A bit further along the waterfront is Canada Place... where the cruise ships dock.

The bear is a neat touch.

And then... I saw it... peeping out from between some buildings...

Do you see?? In amongst all that steel and glass...

O.M.G. It's the Marine Building!!!

Are we going to the Marine Building?? Art deco heaven???

Yes we are! 

Look at the detail...

Except... the main doors are...

... closed...

But we found another way into the lobby...

Ooooh ahhh....

The elevators...

The inside of the elevators is... to die for...

We went up to the second floor and got a birds eye view of the lobby...

And there was an architectural plan of the building here...

Sooo much to see!

That was amazing!! But wait... we are not done??

Nope... we are going to the Vancouver Christmas Market! 

Lots of German themed food and decorations...

That's the 2010 Olympic torch thingie!

Now that you mention it... I am a bit peckish...

I got directions from the nutcracker...

And found a neat card...

Is that not cute?? Get it?

Lots of cool stuff here...

Even a honey stall...

And nuts...

Still looking for food though... (P.S. nutcrackers know nothing about directions!)

Ah-hah!!! Here we are... schnitzel? or pork hocks or...

Sausages!

Which got eaten beary fast... and washed down with a nice dark beer.

To be followed up with a piping hot, nice and soft, salted pretzel. YUM!

Well, that was epic! (Can you spot me in the pic?)

Finished off with... dinner... I have to say... Sandy's sekrebeary is treating me beary well...

Nachos!

And then the next morning... we are here at Starbucks waiting for Sandy's train to arrive...

Yes, that says 25 km/h... like 15 mph... they go superslow sometimes because they have to wait for freight trains...

But they were only 30 minutes late. Here he comes!!

Ahhhh HAH!.... It's the MICE!!! Sandy went to Jasper to pick up Cocoa and Navy Beanie! Bet you didn't expect that, eh?

We got all caught up on the bus... and the ferry... they have had an epic cheese tasting crawl through BC (kind of like a pub crawl... but a cheese crawl). But ran out of funds in Jasper... These mice know how to live it up!