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Karen’s aunt and uncle have been knocking themselves out to show us around their hometown area, which is a couple hours east of Seattle. This is kind of a bedroom community for Microsoft…there’s a lot of money combined with an “old west” sensibility out here.

Elk, for huntin’:

I think they heard us…or smelled us…so they ran away:

Rivers, for fishin’:

Lots of canyons & tracks:

Geez…who’s Dan?

Tomorrow, it’s back to Seattle, reconnect with an old college buddy, check out the city that lives underneath Seattle…and figure out what we’re doing with our next leg…

Wednesday was spent at the Vancouver Aquarium. I have some pics, and yes I will post them…but not tonight. [edit: here they are! 1/22/05]

Thursday morning, thinking that it would be raining (again), we went off to a museum called “Historyeum”, which is a multimedia presentation of Vancouver’s history. It didn’t rain. All. Day. Which was cool, cuz we got some more cool pics of the area in Vancouver called “Gastown” and had a chance to ride mass transit here on our way to meet with Andy Park. More on that later…

We met this guy at the aquarium. His name is Tag. For some reason, as I was thinking of him, I was registering his name as the first part of that famous watch maker, Tag Heuer…not as the kid’s game. Go figger! What a personality on this guy! Karen and I both enjoyed the animal shows very much. AND we got a discount for being Hostel members. How cool.

Here’s a closeup of Tag’s head. I got the sense that he really liked posing for pics…:

Cutest little sea otters you’d ever wanna meet:

Now THIS is cool. Check it out: Jellyfish in action!

And, another angle on the Vancouver skyline for good measure.