Things to do in BC

I AM ME · Post by **I AM ME** » 4/2/2006, 2:47 am

Making fun of Manitoba and Saskatchewan is fun, and easy too!

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 4/2/2006, 5:31 am

Hope wrote:^ that was the first thing that popped into my mind, haha (this was to Sinead's first post)

The skulls thing was back in the 1980s. or 70s, i forget. ... basically, they found some human skulls buried in stanley park, and they think it's murder (the skulls were 2 childrens', i think. the crime case has never been resolved.

but yes!!!! YOU SHOULD GO TO THE VANCOUVER AQUARIUM (in stanley park)

vancouver:
1. jogging/walking around stanley park... if the weather is good, you will REALLY enjoy it.
2. vancouver aquarium
3. walking along West 4th and its uber-artsy expensive shops
4. the beaches (kitsilano beach, jericho beach)
5. 2nd/3rd beach in Stanley park
6. the museum of anthropology (in UBC) --> i haven't been there since grade four but it's a cool place.
7. shopping on the shops around West Broadway... plus they have some really good restaurants.
8. looking at the art galleries all along Granville st.
9. the Vancouver Art Gallery (i have no idea what exhibition will be up in april, though)
10. Emily Carr Institute and its galleries (ECI is an art school and you can go in the galleries for free most of the time. they exhibit students' works. and i might be wrong, but if you go in april, it's the end of the schoolyear, so there might be quite a bit of stuff to display; ECI is in Granville island, which is an awesome place to go)
11. Granville island - you can actually take a look at hat shops, bead shops, sculptures, markets, lots of handmade artsy thingies, and the kids market.
12. random shops on downtown - there are tons of crazy fun shops. vintage clothing shops, costume shops, used cd shops, poster shops, book shops, and a shitload of clothing stores, as well as big department stores and HMV and A&B Sound, etc.

victoria:
1. seaplane
2. shopping in quaint little shops
3. wax museum!!!
4. buchart gardens, if you have the time. late april is the PERFECT time to go.
5. the museum with JOHN LENNON's CAR.

i have zero knowledge of kelowna, but i doubt there is much to do, compared to the above.

that's all i can think of at the moment.

Jen is the best :love:

I walked around Stanley Park before, so I don't think I'll do that again. I want to go to the beaches though and the aquarium too.

I'm def. going to 4th ave/kits/around there.

I've done the VAG before. What are the art galleries on Granville?

Granville was fun when we went before - so I may well go back.

I don't think I'll have time for Butchart Gardens - but I've been there before. I found some photos of it the other day - sooo pretty.

Which museum is John Lennon's car in??

And thanks Sonya too :love:

The minature museum sounds fun.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 4/2/2006, 6:36 am

Hope wrote:
closeyoureyes wrote:hahaha ew i'm not that hardcore

for real?... i didnt think you have to be hardcore at all to 'celebrate' 420...

I'm don't have a clue what you're talking about :freak:

closeyoureyes · Post by **closeyoureyes** » 4/2/2006, 1:34 pm

It's like the marijuana holiday of life.

beautiful liar · Post by **beautiful liar** » 4/2/2006, 3:30 pm

things to do in bc:

come to calgary instead!

:eek:

christa lynn · Post by **christa lynn** » 4/2/2006, 4:37 pm

I'm having my birthday party on the 29th. I'll be clubbing, probably at the Royal (downtown, Granville and ~ Nelson or Smithe I think).

You could also go see Wreck Beach, but that involves walking down (then back up) ~400 stairs and all it is really is another beach but with some naked people hehe.

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 4/2/2006, 6:47 pm

Dr. Hobo wrote:i love kelowna

Kelowna rules.

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 4/2/2006, 6:57 pm

i agree
i spent 6 weeks out that way :drool:

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 4/2/2006, 7:03 pm

Sadly, I have never been. Hopefully I'll get there someday soon.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 4/3/2006, 2:19 am

christa lynn wrote:
You could also go see Wreck Beach, but that involves walking down (then back up) ~400 stairs and all it is really is another beach but with some naked people hehe.

haha.. oh yes. Wreck Beach is a nude beach near the UBC campus.

answer for sooz: there are a LOT of small art galleries (usually for a couple of specific artists) on Granville street, you pretty much can just walk in and out and look at paintings/sculptures at your own pleasure.

i would say that the key to having fun would be going into a million of small tiny shops/places instead of going to a few big, famous places. actually, a combination would be perfect.

crustine · Post by **crustine** » 4/6/2006, 9:11 pm

and you can buy fellafels of a nude guy..

also if you have the car and a day definitely go to Whistler. Sea to Sky Highway is awsome (pic on.net in my blog). IN Van check out the Lower East Side it is notorious for heroin users and protitutes. But i have never found it threatening and I thing it is a real eye opener. There is also the Expo site pretty building, all close together, China town being in the area.

I would also reccomend taking hwy 3 out of vancouver as it is sooo pretty. It means you will drive a little longer but you will have a lovely drive.

Buy some Rogers chocolates
I agree with the museun of Anthropology, lots of totems very cool.

The Planetarium
Kits (fly a kite watch the tugs)
Take the back road to the Ferry through the Fraser River

My friend from Kelowna happens to be sailing his boat around the world so I cant give you too much info.

In victoria there are some super cool bead stores and you have to go to the Hat shop
They are world known. Ask anyone and they will direct you, There are some seriously beautiful hats. I belive Government Street . I believe it is Roberta's Hats
http://www.victoriaclippermagazine.com/ ... trict3.htm

Enjoy

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 4/7/2006, 10:52 am

oooh yay bead stores <3

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 4/7/2006, 11:12 am

crustine wrote:and you can buy fellafels of a nude guy..

I try not to buy things from nude people. It's a general rule I have.

beautiful liar · Post by **beautiful liar** » 4/7/2006, 11:15 am

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 4/7/2006, 6:50 pm

beautiful liar wrote::puppyeyes:

Post by **faninor** » 4/7/2006, 6:59 pm

christa lynn wrote:You could also go see Wreck Beach, but that involves walking down (then back up) ~400 stairs and all it is really is another beach but with some naked people hehe.

So if I went I could wander around saying I came all the way to Canada to see some OLPness? YES!

don't ask why · Post by **don't ask why** » 4/8/2006, 10:22 am

Manning Park route to Kelowna adds 1.5 hours to the trip, but it's nice.

Vancouver:
Hit up Granville Street (downtown; south Granville between 5th and 16th) in daytime
Hit up Granville Street (downtown) at night
Wreck Beach is meh.
Head up to SFU and check out the view.
Drive carefully to Whistler (albeit money's being put in to improve the highway for stupid drivers cause there was nothing wrong with it in the first place.)
Walking along West Broadway is pretty sweet too (some sweet restaurants).

Kelowna:
Wine tasting - Mission Hills, and lots of others (I think it's on the Coquihalla Highway side when you come in that way) but I'm not sure.
Waterfront of Kelowna is pretty sweet too.

Victoria
Definitely go downtown to the waterfront and all those shops and Chinatown. It's good times.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 4/8/2006, 10:33 am

I won't have a car in Vancouver so I can't do some of those fun things

And i Kelowna I will have a car, but I'll be driving so I can't do wine tasting

eeek getting to West Broadway would involve a bus. The bus route map I found online is the most confusing thing ever. Though I think I've worked out what busses I need to get to get to Matt Good's shows and to 4th Ave/Kits.

I need bus help though - is it $2.25 correct change only? And will the bus just stop for me if I'm stood at a bus stop or do i need to signal for it to stop? And when i want to get off presumably it's obvious if I have to press a button or pull one of those wierd cord things or whatever. Though how I know where I want to get off in an area I've never been to before I'm not quite sure.

don't ask why · Post by **don't ask why** » 4/8/2006, 11:24 am

Just talk to the bus driver and ask them to call it out. Most of them are pretty nice. It is correct change only from what I recall - and 3 different zones depending where you're travelling.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 4/8/2006, 11:31 am

Thanks

I hope I get nice bus drivers. I checked the map and I'm not going far enough out to get into another zone.