Vancouver: Day One

Actually, we arrived in Vancouver on Saturday night around 7:30 PM.  With a little help from Darren, we got a row to ourselves on the plane trip there, which only turned out to be a little over three and a half hours in the air.  From the airport, we took the Canada Line train to downtown Vancouver and walked two blocks from the City Center Station to L’Hermitage, our hotel.  After getting settled into the room, we walked down Robson and found a bar called Fogg ‘N Suds.  We had some quesadillas and a few cold Coors Lights.  Coors Light is apparently brewed in Canada as well because it is considered a domestic beer.  I could tell a difference in the taste; however, Angela could not…the Coors Light that is…the quesadillas, awful. They tasted much different than the true Tex-Mex we were used to.

 

The next morning we got up and decided to walk to the closest casino which was about five blocks away.  There was a car show in front of the casino that was about to start.  I took a couple of pictures, but we didn’t actually go to the show.  The casino, Edgewater Casino, was quite small in comparison to casinos we typically visit.  It was two floors.  The first floor were a few table games and slot machines and the second floor were just table games.  I blew $20 on a slot machine.  Angela turned her $20 into $55 on the machine next to me.  So that made up for my loss.

Next we walked back to the hotel. On the way there we passed by what appeared to be a production set for a commercial.

That afternoon we walked around downtown Vancouver a bit more.  We ended up walking over to Yaletown, a “trendy” area of downtown.  We had two $15 burgers and $6 beers for lunch.  On the walk back from the restaurant we passed a liquor/beer store.  I was getting a little tired of paying top $ for drinks, so I figured I could pickup something for the hotel room.  I decided against it when I saw the prices.  A 12 pack of Coors Light was $25 (remember that it is considered a domestic beer)!  I then looked at getting some Bacardi rum instead.  A 750 ml bottle was $30, in Dallas I pay about $12-$14 for the same!  At this point I accepted the fact that we would be paying out the nose for alcohol while in Canada.

Later that evening we decided to try out another casino (River Rock Casino) that was a little larger.  We took the Canada Line train there.  This casino was much larger in comparison to Edgewater; but it was no Vegas casino.  We had the $20 buffet and played a little roulette.  Angela lost her $20, but I turned mine into $40.  I lost at roulette too, but turned my remaining $8 into $40 on a Wheel of Fortune slot machine (got the wheel spin).  Technically, Angela won the $40 since she had pressed the button when we got the spin.

On the way back from the River Rock casino, we took the Canada Line train all the way to the Waterfront Station which is the last stop, it is only one more stop past our hotel.  We walked around down there and stumbled across a bar called Black Frog.  I liked it there since I could get rum and diet’s for $5, which was an awesome deal considering.  BC’s talls in BC!  After an hour or so, we left and heading back to the hotel.  We pasted the steam clock which is right in front of Black Frog.

The link below are to some other photos from the trip.  I’ll post day two tomorrow.

Vancouver