Honeymoon Round Up - Day 3 - Adventures Through Vancouver, BC

Part 1 - Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

Day 3 was set aside for our adventure. (which would end up being adventures, I'll get to that  later)  We had planned on going to the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park.  It's one of Vancouver's top activities.  There was a free shuttle right around the corner from the hotel so we walked over there around 9:45am.  And then again at about 10am because I realized I forgot my watch and my phone in the room.  Needless to say I'm not sure the hubs was happy about having to go back!  Anyways, they had shuttles running about every 15 minutes so we decided on some coffee before we were leaving since we missed the original stop we were going to take. The day before I had realized that they had Tim Hortons in Vancouver.  I just about lost my mind.  I thought Timmy Hoes was only in WNY (Western NY) or my least favorite region, Ontario, Canada.  Let me tell you the fact that they had it in Vancouver made me want to do a happy dance.  I was going to do work on some vanilla ice capps while I was there.  A little back story on why Timmy Hoes is so rediculous.  Let's put it this way.  Go to WNY, find a Timmy Hoes, they're everywhere, you won't have trouble finding one.  What you will have trouble with is the line.  Doesn't matter what time of day the drive through line is always crazy!  Hooray yes they typically have a drive through.  The lines always led me to believe that they put some kind of crack in their coffee.  I mean literally it's pretty good, it would make sense.  No I don't do crack, but if that was what crack was like, it was awesome.  It's either that or their Tim Bits, because those are pretty darn freekin awesome too!

We grabbed our coffee, waited a couple minutes and the bus came to pick us up.  Wesley and I immediately had flashbacks to when we were playing college sports because if you played college sports too you know you always traveled in those fancy travel buses.  The trip up takes about 20 minutes in total after a few more pick up stops.  We had a really nice lady bus driver who was wired up with a microphone enabling her to give us a little play by play of some of the areas we drove through on the way up.  I'll be honest I was never good at listening to things like that so I couldn't tell you the first thing about anything she explained to us.  I was too busy just kind of gazing out the window, still enjoying my Timmy Hoes!

The ride up was pretty easy and our plan was to ride back down.  Realistically we figured we'd be spending most of the day there.  I just imagined it was this big park where we could really kill the day.  It didn't really turn out like that though.  It was the one thing I did hear the lady say that you could probably do the whole park in about 2 hours at a casual pace.  

So what is the Capilano Suspension Bridge park?  Well, it's most famously known for the being one of the world's largest suspension bridges.  It's 450 feet (137m) across and 230 feet (70m) above the Capilano River.  Seriously it's no joke.  

This was just before we started making our way across.

If you are a little bit scared of heights, this might get you.  I'm mildly scared of heights so I took the recommendation of others to just try and not look down.  

It's the only way across to the rest of the suspension bridges (which are much smaller and not as scary), and of course it's the only way back once you cross.  If you successfully cross it and come back you even get a fancy certificate!!  See I did it!!

The park is really cool though.  There are a lot of the different suspension bridges to walk across, some that are set pretty high up in the trees.  It's basically one big long path through a whole bunch of these.

They weren't really that scary LOL

The scenery up there was gorgeous though and the trees were just unbelievable how big some of them were.  Because there was so many people going through it really kind of did push us along through the course of bridges.  I mean it was a lot of the same through each of them to be honest.  Here are a couple more cool shots of the main bridge and some of the trees.

The last part of the park is the newly added cliff walk.  It's exactly what it sounds like!!  It's a big wrapping walk way (one direction only, so no you can't get out there and be a freekin chicken and back out and try and go back.  You have to keep walking)  It was pretty trippy, I'm not going to lie.  It's a metal bar bridge with glass sides and bottom on some parts so that you can literally see beneath you.  Highly recommend that if you don't like heights you better either chicken out on this and leave your buddies to go ahead of you or seriously for the love of god do not look down!!  I looked down, it brought my heart rate up a little bit.  I powered through though.  YOLO baby.....YOLO!!  Bucket list, check!  Here are some snapshots of the cliff walk area. 

Side note, the lady taking this picture was horrible.  I don't know what she did to the settings when she was taking pics but I literally had to spend like 30 mins in photoshop to color it to even see our faces!  Thanks though lady, and you're welcome for the REALLY awesome pictures I did for you and your husband!

Seriously I looked down, it was horrible!

So that's about all for now, I'm going to split up the adventure day into another post, mostly because I wanted to get some pictures in for explanation purposes and this is going to get way too long.  Just wait though, this adventure as cool as it was because it didn't take us a whole day led us to part 2 of day 3.  Can't wait to tell you about the next part of the day up to Grouse Mountain!! Oh and just you wait for when I get to tell you about the worst meal experience I've ever had it my life.  It's a really knee slapper!!  That will come in a post all itself as well!

Until then...

xoxo,

M-EFF