Great day : lovely walk and drive round Stanley Park (OK the rain didn't wholly stop but we mainly dodged it) with its totem-poles (mostly copies but we saw the originals in the Museum of Anthropology in the afternoon)
and trees with their Autumn colours. We were partially accompanied by a camera-shy raccoon and spotted what behaved for all the world like northern-hemisphere-Autumn hummingbirds, but which also eluded a decent shot.
After an excellent chicken pho lunch (Vancouver has a very sizeable Oriental population so there's a choice of any number of cuisines), we headed to the site of the University of British Columbia where the afore-mentioned MOA has apparently just had a hugely expensive refurb. If I was being picky, I'd say the exhibits were a bit overcrowded and under-labelled, but overall it's varied and extremely good.
A bit pooped after all that, we headed south out of Vancouver and hopped the border in ten minutes flat. Whatever happened to that enormous queue?! And amazingly, as we reentered the US, the sun came out (don't worry though... there's just been an enormous clap of thunder right overhead so looks like business as usual!
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