Yesterday, we visited Granville Island. It was only a few blocks and a 30 second Aqua Bus ride away. This is a non- commercial district (no Starbucks or McDonalds) with a wonderful public market, marina, art galleries, restaurants, and the Granville Island Brewery. We started in the market and had a nice breakfast while looking at all the beautifully displayed produce, spices, teas, and meats. We then walked around, checking out all of the local artisan shops. Unless you happened to look up, you'd never realize that most of this area was under the Granville Bridge. At 2:00 we took the Brewery tour and sampled the local lager, pilsner, hefeweisen, and pale ale. We shared the tour with a couple from Manchester, England; another from Wales; and a couple of guys from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. One of the guys, Darren, a pilot recently relocated to Vancouver, invited us to BBQ some local fish at his apartment. Rene, Darren's cousin and Kirk's Girlfriend, met up with us and we ended up having a really nice dinner with a few bottles of wine that Darren had made. Later that night, we all headed to the Chinese night market which was unusually small (presumably due to the rain we had that evening).
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