Our Honeymoon - Vancouver Victoria Style

As most of you know, we went to Vancouver and Victoria for our honeymoon. It was a lovely vacation for both of us, and it was nice to see some family and good friends that we don't get to see very often.

The night after our wedding, Friday night, we stayed at the Airport Delta. We hadn't changed from our wedding attire so we walked up the front desk all decked out and so the lady gave us an upgraded room. We got a free continental breakfast, but we messed up the times and didn't get us early enough! So we ended up at Timmy's in the airport. Hard life eh? Saturday afternoon we boarded our flight to Vancouver.

From the Vancouver airport we took a taxi to our hotel, The Sutton Place, and dumped our stuff in our very nice condo style room.













Then we walked to the parkade where our hot ride for the next couple of days was: Dad O's solstice! Leif was instantly in love and we decided to take it for a spin through Stanley Park... with the top down! I must say, I'm still amazed that even though we went forward really fast my hair still blew into my face!

















My handsome husband...

















Sunday morning we went to meeting and then in the evening we went for a walk to Canada Place by the water. There was an IMAX there so we saw a double feature of The Space Station 3D and Deep Sea 3D. Pretty neat stuff.

Monday we went out to Dad O's hanger and Leif and him had a long consult about airplane matters while I read my Jodi Picoult book! Then Dad O took us out for supper at The Copper Chimney, a really good Indian restaurant, and up to his office to look at our wedding pictures on a huge screen! We were so glad to see they turned out so fabulous!

Tuesday was Vancouver Aquarium day. We saw the dolphin show, and the sea otter show, and the beluga whale show, and then walked around everywhere else. We couldn't find any turtles so we had to ask where they were. Don't know how we missed the big one!

















Wednesday we went up Grouse mountain and went zip lining in the rain, snow, wind, and hail! It was fun nevertheless. We were so cold after that, the hotel hottub felt so good! For meeting we went with Ayla and her roommate Shona and then went out for Gelato after!

Thursday it was time to head to Victoria! We decided the Ferry was too boring for a honeymoon so we took a helicopter! I was so nervous about it but it turned out to be really cool! My favourite part was the take-off. You just lift straight up into the sky!

We got to our hotel in Victoria, The Magnolia, a little early so we dropped our bags and went for a walk down to the harbour. When we got back to our room we were in for a huge surprise! Quinn used his employee status to do this to our room!


















WOW!!!

Zoe wrote up the list of things to do. We completed numbers 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9! Not bad for 3 days! We also walked around downtown and spent some big dollars on a hoodie, trendy boots, and a duvet cover! On Friday night we went to the most amazing (and most expensive) restaurant with Quinn and Zoe I’ve EVER been to. The food was all fresh and local and positively delicious!

And then back to reality on Saturday.


P.S. This post took me many hours of frustration because of the stupid pictures. If anyone knows how to fix it so the pictures go in where I want them to instead of at the top all the time, PLEASE tell me!!