Lynn Canyon

 This past Saturday Jared and I skedaddled (which, by the way, is a real word. I looked it up :) over to Lynn Canyon Park in North Vancouver with our friends Jared and Elise (another J & E!) to explore this  free (and much smaller) alternative to the Capilano Suspension Bridge, which is a popular attraction in the Vancouver area. Both parks feature bridges suspended over a rushing river and overlooking beautiful waterfalls, but while Capilano's bridge is  450 feet (137m) across and 230 feet (70m) above Capilano River, Lynn Canyon is only around 50m (about 160ish feet) above the river. But while Capilano costs 27.95/person, Lynn Cayon is FREE!! and that almost always wins for Jared and me.

Despite its smaller size, it's a spectacular and beautiful park. After weaving through groups of tourists and stopping to throw things and spit off the edge, as you must do when you cross a bridge, we took a short hike through the woods to another waterfall. The river was small but mighty, and had to work hard to get through narrow canyons and boulders and rapids. It was a gorgeous clear green color, so clean it made you thirsty just looking at it. 

We snapped a lot of pictures too, but were disappointed when we looked through them. Some turned out way too dark, probably because of the thick trees in the woods, but the ones that did turn out just didn't do the place justice! But here they are anyway:

The bridge

The view from the bridge

Spitting off the bridge :) Elise is in the front, you can just see my purple hood behind her

Jared exploring a giant tree trunk. This thing could explode with one good kick, it's so decayed

This isn't actually my photo....but it's a great view of the bridge and the falls. Our version of this photo didn't turn out

 We spent the rest of the evening at Jared and Elise's house, where we ate some delicious homemade pizza and tried our hand at a new game that's huge around here, Dutch Blitz. Being 50% Dutch and from West Michigan, you'd think I would have heard of this game before now. But that's ok, now that we've learned it and have been soundly beat by players more experienced than us, we can only get better. Mostly I just love the look of this card game:

We could frame these cards and hang them in our kitchen, and they'd be a perfect match. Which might happen if I don't start winning sometime soon :)