Vancouver Trip - Day 4

TIMELINE

• 8:00 a.m. Awake
• 9:10 a.m. Breakfast - Tim Hortons #4944
• 10:30 a.m. Check out, walk to new hotel, check in
• 11:00 a.m. IROS 2017 registration
• 11:53 a.m. Lunch - Tractor Foods @ 335 Burrard Street
• Noon - Bus to University of British Columbia
• 1:30 p.m. Nitobe Memorial Garden | UBC Botanical Garden
• 2:00 p.m. Museum of Anthropology at UBC
• 5:00 p.m. Bus back to downtown
• 6:10 p.m. Dinner - Yah-Yah-Ya Ramen
• 6:30 p.m. Back at hotel; blogging, news, UCSC CPSRC web page editing, receipts
• 10:30 p.m. Asleep

NOTES

• Scratchy throat...getting sicker
• Hotel Fairmont Vancouver:
• Resident black lab in their lobby (Ollie?)
• Roof access (?)
• Toilet handle needs jiggling to get the flapper down
• Electric/USB ports built-into nightstand
• View of Tiffany, Dior
• Large walk-in closet
• Rainfall shower head
• University of British Columbia:
• Nitobe Memorial Garden - lush, green, stone, grass, waterfalls, wooden bridges, tea house, koi fish, pond
• Museum of Anthropology - totem poles, masks, masterworks, pottery, exhibit on the Amazon, Dawn wondered about wearing the masks with the movable lower jaws, potlatch
• Fall colors appearing
• X̱wi7x̱wa Library (Squamish language-the number 7 represents a shorthand for glottal stop)
• Student Nest
• West 4th Avenue has a lot of commercial activity
• IROS 2017 registration went smoothly; found the room Dawn will present at; the conference wireless password starts with "v" and represents the name of a city....
• CityPass coupon saved us $18 already, so almost break-even ($25 cost)
• Called Toyota of Vacaville about car...corrected my email address, authorized car repair...way more than what it should cost and probably doesn't include labor, but there it is
• Make store at Granville Island responded and we settled on a color (heathered purple) for Dawn's tee shirt -- Lauren great at customer service