Seattle...Day 2, Vancouver

Got up early to drive up to Vancouver for the day. This is our first foray into unstructured and spontaneous vacationing. Let's just say that doesn't work well for us. Thank god a coworker gave us a Fodor's guide to Vancouver or I'm certain we would have ended up in the Yukon Territory. We drove around a lot looking for random things to see.

We went to Grandville Island and had beers at Grandville Brewing. It was a small brewery with what looked like a new5 barrel brewing system. The four beers on tap were solid but not outstanding. We walked around the island for about 20 minutes. They have an indoor market that is 15 times the size of the Midtown Global Market. I think it would be really cool if it wasn't so tourist laden.

From there we took a challenging trip to Go Fish, which took us 40 minutes to find. It was well worth the trip, the halibut fish and chip were awsome, and the salmon taco was even better. It was like a smaller and grungier Sea Salt but just as good.

From there we made one more stop at Steamworks Brew Pub overlooking the Vancouver Harbour. This large 700 seat brew pub had multiple themes on differt levels of the restaurant and had a chandelier from a Belgian Church. The beers here were more advanced than the Grandville Brewery, the had a raspberry lambic that with some age would be very good.

All in all Vancouver was not a good day trip destination for us, however I think it would be great if you could stay there over night. After 20 years together this was our fist trip outside the US and I got to use my passport for the first time. Alas we were unable to take a picture of use in Canada. That's OK, because now the blisters on my sunburned chin are now dry, cracked, and peeling. I am monstrous.

Going for wine and cheese tonight at Purple...more Seattle sightseeing tomorrow.

PS - Purple once again did not disappoint. WE LOVE CHEESE!! And beer and wine.