Today's plan was to go to Gastown, an old historic district in Vancouver, which Mum had recommended from her trip to Vancouver two years ago. When we got into the city it was raining heavily - but only the second day that we had packed our rain coats for a day's outing since we had arrived - so we decided to have a look around the shopping mall that Hamish's cousin Conrad and his sons' from Penticton had told us about – the Pacific Centre. What a huge, expansive, expensive maze of a shopping mall!
We soon found the Apple store and had a good look at all the cool new Apple toys. The store was really well laid out with lots of iPods, iPads, iPhones, iEverything out on display for people to have a play with, and lots of iApple staff on hand to help out. What a great store. And what extremely helpful and patient techy Apple staff. Nice!
At Gastown we were real tourists and waited for the Gastown Steam Clock landmark to let off steam on the quarter-hour and took lots of touristy type photos.
The steam clock was actually built in 1977 to resemble London's Big Ben.
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| Gastown steam clock |
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| Letting off steam |
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| Hamish with the statue of Gassy Jack (An Englishman who was one of Vancouver's founding fathers) |
Time for Hamish's photo with a beer shot for the day, so we went to the Steamworks Brewing Company for a drink and a small bite to eat.
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