Letters from Canada: Vancouver Lookout!

(photos were taken from Karen Moen and Wikipedia)

Before we even got our papers for Canada, I would always come across these aerial pictures of Vancouver. I was hoping that when our plane was about to land, I would catch a glimpse of the same picture. Unfortunately, it was cloudy and drizzling when we arrived. Tsk tsk.

However, the next best thing is to check out the

Vancouver Lookout! Tower at the Harbour Centre (I need to get used to using -our instead of -or and -tre instead of -ter as it is the practice here in Canada). Located at the heart of Vancouver's downtown, it features a viewing deck and a revolving restaurant, not to mention a priceless view. In fact, I even heard from a local that it is a popular site for

couples especially when the guy is ready to propose.

As it is always good to hit two birds with one stone, we decided to skip the viewing deck and went to have dinner at the revolving restaurant instead. Anyway, it will still give us the view that we wanted plus a sumptuous dinner of fresh BC Salmon. It was simply the best. The slow revolution (60 minutes for a full revolution) allowed us to take our time to see the city - both in daylight and with its evening lights. As you can see, during summer, the sun sets at around 8:30 pm here so it was only until after that that we got to see the city lights.

Unfortunately, as I was too amazed by the food, the great view and the fact that it was fine dining (so it will look jologs if I start going around the deck taking pictures). Anyway, as I was looking around the net for pictures, I came across these pictures from Karen Moen and one of them was a perfect example of the type of view that we got. Check this out.