A fair night and still smooth sailing and I was wide awake 6:45, so I took my (old) Sydney Sheldon book up to the buffet, had a glass of 50/50 OJ and apple juice and read for a while. We’d already docked at the downtown terminal in Canada Place.
Ship berthed on the port side this time – but it could be either side.
One of our identical el Cheapo, $30 Vodafone pre-pay phones worked, Paula’s again.
Just a walk off but we had to carry a photo ID.
The passport photocopy was deemed acceptable.
Two HoHo buses (single deck bus and a trolley car type) plus a free shuttle to the bridge park.
Cruise cards checked on returning to the ship plus the photo ID.
Scanning ashore of hand luggage on return.
Back to the cabin only to return to the buffet with Paula.
We walked off the ship and only got as far as the end of the terminal building, which includes the conference centre, but Paula had to use their facilities in a hurry. There was a massive Anime (Japanese cartoon characters) convention on, so we had to lean on the guard to let us through. Although she then felt OK, but washed out, she decided that being back on the ship was the safest course of action so we did an about turn.
Once safely back, I turned around and went off the ship again and queued for the HoHo trolley car. Two routes, city and park. I opted for the city, but the $42 seniors ticket covered both. I managed to pay with my Air NZ card.
We’d been to Vancouver twice before but I elected to stay on the trolley, though I was tempted to get off at Gastown. We passed one of the smallest commercial buildings in the world, the Jack Chow building (see pic), just 4 feet 6 inches deep. Also a strange ‘sculpture’ of cars piled on top of each other.
Back at Canada place, they’d been advertising the newest Vancouver attraction, conveniently situated in the port building complex, ‘Flight over Canada’. Anyone who has done Disney’s California Theme Park will, be familiar with the ‘Flight over California’. This uses identical technology. Six-person seating like an enormous outdoor swing chair that is raised and moves forward once the ride starts, almost up to a giant screen. Taken from a helicopter, you are then ‘flown’ over mountains, streams and forests. When you fly over a misty mountain, you get a squirt of damp air in the face. Excellent ride and a $19.95 fee. Being a Sunday and with the Anime convention also being on, very busy.
I returned to the ship and arrived just as Paula finished watching a movie on TV and she felt fine. No relapses.
Up to the buffet and just a jelly and a cuppa for Paula.
Back to the cabin and I downloaded the video I’d shot of Paula’s birthday and managed to shrink 111mb down to 1.5mb and uploaded it to Facebook. Needless it say, it took an age to upload and my internet minutes were being gobbled up.
Paula didn’t feel like eating and as it was open dining, I went up to the buffet on my own. I think I had another portion of salmon - as a starter. The veal strips in mushroom sauce, rice and chicken cordon bleu sounds a lot, but small portions. Our lovely Assistant Maître D, Oana, was very helpful with suggestions for Paula. Dry bread, plain steamed rice, parmesan cheese, bananas.
Later, we went back up to the buffet for a cuppa and sat with ace Rock ‘n’ Rollers, Graham and Lynda, when along came Oana and repeated her advice, face to face with Paula this time. Apparently Oana, (from Romania) is the black sheep of the family as the others are doctors. She has been with Princess 17 years and is very good at her job. She has a great way with passengers and seems to deal with the awkward ones with a great deal of patience and control.
The sunset made for interesting pictures and the sails on the port building had a projected maple leaf Canadian symbol projected on them. A nice area of Vancouver.
No relapses so far fir Paula since the morning walk off and just a Panadol this time. Fingers crossed for one of our favourite stops tomorrow, Victoria, on Vancouver Island. Late sailaway tonight - after 11pm. We went to bed instead.
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