We woke up a bit later today, since we stayed up til the morning hours on Sat night. Once we got all showered and ready, we headed out for a late breakfast...brunch...early lunch...whatever you wanna call it! We just hit up the Denny's that's on Davie. What can I say? We love it on Davie St. lol Saw a few more couples walking hand in hand today. So sweet. Though Juan & I...that's not really our thing. lol We prefer to just walk at our own pace.
We've still been noticing a lot of Spanish speaking people, which has surprised us somewhat. From everything we'd heard and read before getting here, we didn't expect too many Spanish-speaking people around here. Still, they could be tourists just like us. So who knows. We still haven't really made any new friends, which I've kinda been wanting to do. It'd be nice to meet a local and then keep in touch later on, maybe even have them visit our city and show them around down the road. We still got time...so maybe we'll make a friend or two soon.
So back to our breakfast. We ate at the Denny's and then decided to just take Davie all the way down through the West End section and ending at the beach area. I believe we started out at English Bay Beach then worked our way down to First Beach, Sunset Beach Park and then just walked back onto the main streets after the Burrard Bridge. The beach itself was covered in snow. The ocean water was so clean & clear and I imagine cold (we didn't go that far into it). At times the sun would come out so it would make for such beautiful scenery. We had a snow covered beach, with random snow men positioned through it, a section of wet sand just past the snow lead up to the ocean, a group of ducks all swam together, off in the distance the ships were afloat and the False Creek Ferry made it's trips across the waters, taking people from one oceanside of Vancouver to another. We took a bunch of photos as we played in the snow, throwing snowballs at each other and laying down on the cold snow. We made a few snowmen friends and posed with them for pictures. Such tourists!
I'll definitely say one thing, if any of you ever plan to visit here in the winter season when it's snowing or raining...I'd definitely recommend investing in one good pair of weatherproof shoes! We both bought some right before leaving and they have come in very handy, keeping our feet always dry despite the many slush & water puddles that we step into. Plus, they are nice enough to wear when we go out too, so we didn't have to bring more than that one pair each. :)
The whole walk and visit to the beach probably took us a couple of hours, so we were pretty cooled up by then. Not frozen though. Despite all the cold snow, it wasn't as cold as we'd thought. Helps that we had some weatherproof jackets, a sweater underneath, plus our gloves and beanies. lol But a nice hot cup of chocolate still sounded so good. So we hit up the Blenz Coffee, the Canadian Coffee Company, that's located right on the corner from our hotel. Juan got a Belgian Milk Chocolate and I got the Belgian White Chocolate. Both were very good. We took a seat at some stools by the window and watched the people walking by. We finished the rest of our hot chocolate back at the room with some of those cookies we'd gotten from the market. :)
That night, at around 10, we decided to meet up with a new friend, Kevin, at Delilah's, a bar & restaurant out in the West End area, near where we'd spent the time playing in the snow. When we got there though we found out the place was already closing. lol So he then just told us to meet up at another spot a few blocks down instead, The Calling, another bar/restaurant. We finally met him (and his friend who was also visiting, from Venezuela, Sara) and had a great time talking over food & drinks and some live music. I just had a mojito while Juan had a salad. Little did I know that I probably should've gotten some food at that point too. hehe 'Cause after we were done there all four of us headed over to Kevin's apt, which was pretty much around the corner. He had a really nice place overlooking the streets of West End Vancouver. I liked how he had it decorated and whatnot, including some of his own paintings and photographs, which I liked. So, there we all just talked some more, listened to music and had a few more drinks. I loved getting to know some new people and making new friends. This was something we've never really been able to do on previous trips. While we were chilling there, that was when I went for the vodka mixed drinks and...well, we had to spend the night. hehe I remember most of the night...other parts had to be filled in for me the next morning. lol Good times.
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