A Little of Disney, a Little of Canada: the Beginning of an Adventure

Our honeymoon was wonderful!  Seriously, amazing.  I highly recommend getting away, and I mean away, for your honeymoon.  It is a great way to start your life together, exploring new things with each other.  We started out at Walt Disney's Wilderness Lodge.  As we were leaving for Canada the next day, the Wilderness Lodge was a great choice.  The resort is super rustic with American West and American Indian influences.  There are even totem poles in the lobby and huge grizzly bears poking around corners.  When we arrived, we were given "Just Married" pins that we wore throughout the honeymoon and received "awwww's!" everywhere we went :)

On Sunday, we left over 100 degree heat in Florida to go to Vancouver, Canada where the weather was a wonderful 70 degrees.  What a welcome change!  We stayed at the Holiday Inn in downtown Vancouver and explored what felt like the entire city.  On Monday, we started out at the Vancouver Lookout that offers 360 degree views of the city.  It was amazing!  You could see both the city and the surrounding untouched countryside for miles.  We saw the Olympic torch, many, many prop planes coming in and out, and read all about the history of famous city landmarks.  We even came back later that night to get a night view of the city.  Beautiful!

The rest of the day was spent exploring Stanley Park.  We walked almost the entire way around the park (6 miles!) along the seawall and cut through a few of the many nature trails on the way back.  There were totem poles, bikers, beautiful local flowers and gardens, cute restaurants (we ate at the Mill Marine Bistro) and statues of local legends and relics along the way.  It was very relaxing and a great way to explore Vancouver first-hand!