Robson Square looking south
We went over on the Aquabus to visit Geoffrey’s office this morning. He is in a very nice location on the north shore of False Creek. After a short tour of his place we walked north to the Vancouver Art Gallery. It wasn’t cheap, but at least I got the senior’s rate!
I wasn’t really all that impressed with the gallery. They had a very large architectural exhibit called “Grand Hotel” which was a lot of pictures and models of the history of the hotel. We also saw an exhibit of art by Art Spiegelman called CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics and Scraps, which was a large display of comic book style cartoons. We didn’t spend a lot of time in it as it really wasn’t all that interesting.
Much nicer was the display of watercolors by Emily Carr and Charles John Collings called Hope at Dawn: Watercolours. We enjoyed this much more than the final exibit we walked through, an exhibit of photographic prints by Patrick Faigenbaum. I didn’t think that the photographs had much to recommend them.
After lunch we walked around a bit through downtown Vancouver looking for a store that would sell Roam Mobility sims for our phone, but didn’t find one. By now it was raining a bit so we headed back to the Aquabus ferry, spent a bit of time walking around Granville Island and looking in the market and some of the stores, then came back to Geoffrey’s place. We still have to go out and find a grocery store to get a few things for supper.
It’s good we have our umbrella as it looks as if we are in for typical wet Vancouver weather for a couple of days.