Route March

Gary decided today he would take me on a route march.  He still has a lot of Army in him!  Up at the crack of dawn for a good breakfast followed by a 7 mile circumnavigation of Stanley Park.  The only other people we saw were walkers and runners and people doing "excercise", now you all know I don't do that.

I will give it to him though, it is a lovely park, the following photos are of the totem poles at the far end and the "must have" photo taken with Downtown Vancouver in the background (taken by a very nice Swedish bloke).

On our walk we saw the police doing what the police do best.......

They must have gone for breakfast somewhere but the bikes looked great.  Barbara came into the bar this evening with a similar photo of the three police bikes in a line at the back of Fat Burger... it must have been lunchtime.

The following photo really got me thinking about the conversation that must have gone before it....

Client...."I want a big oak tree in my garden"
Contractor..... "Sorry sir, I just don't think thats possible"
Client... "Just make it happen, I don't care how you do it"

Following the Park walk, he decided we should go and visit the local Triumph dealer which was the other side of the city through the druggie district and out the other end about another 5 miles to find out that it was shut anyway because they'd had a water leak.  We got the bus back and the bus driver felt so sorry for the stupid brits that he gave us the tickets for free and made sure we knew where to get off the bus.

The group is getting bigger by the day, we added Paul to our number this afternoon.

From the left, Marion, John, Gary, Tony, Paul, Barbara, Craig.

Craig and Barbara have done a good job today getting the bikes through the first round of customs clearance, however the customs officials have decided they want to give them a soil check to make sure we are not importing any nasties with them.  They are doing that tomorrow morning so hopefully we will be able to go and get them tomorrow afternoon.

Our mascots are patiently waiting for their transport to arrive