I had a few hours to kill after my incredible massage before my dinner reservations and facial were scheduled in downtown Vancouver, so I opted to take a short 30 minute trip to the Capilano Suspension Bridge, which was SO COOL!
I find it interesting that in the USA, we tend to have brochures for places like this in English, and sometimes in Spanish. You get to Canada, and it's in like 6 different languages. It also was interesting to me that the one in English had not a picture of the USA flag, but rather Canada's. I mean, it makes sense (since it's one of their main languages there as well), it just caught me off guard, and I had to actually read the text instead of look at the flags to find which one I needed.
I couldn't help but think of my kiddos when I saw these cool totem poles there. They had them all over the place in the little park they had there. The whole park was extremely well maintained, and it was pretty impressive!
Had I ventured across this bridge as a kid, I would have been TERRIFIED! As an adult, it wasn't nearly as momentous.
On the other side of the bridge, they had a whole maze of paths you could take, as well as these cool tree-top bridges all over. My kids would've been in awe!
I stopped at the really awesome souvenir shop and picked up a few things for the kids, an ornament, a sweatshirt for myself, and then headed on my way downtown to catch my facial.
Overall, I found myself highly impressed by the suspension bridge. It isn't something I'd probably buy a season pass for if I lived in the area or anything, and it wasn't probably as exciting experiencing it just by myself as it would have been if I had gone with the kids, but it was a neat (albeit EXPENSIVE) way to pass an afternoon. I'd recommend it!
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