Vancouver Trip - Day 5

TIMELINE

• 8:00 a.m. Awake
• 9:00 a.m. Blenz Coffee - Bentall 5
• 9:20 a.m. Tractor Foods - 335 Burrard St.
• 10:00 a.m. Back at hotel
• 10:30 a.m. Left hotel for laundry
• 11:00 a.m. At Laundry Valet, 1238 Davie St, Vancouver
• 12:15 p.m. Heading back to hotel
• 1:00 p.m. Back at hotel
• 1:22 p.m. Hotel Fairmont Vancouver - Business Services print/scan/email
• 1:45 p.m. Caffe Artigiano - 763 Hornby Street
• 2:00 p.m. Vancouver Art Gallery
• 5:30 p.m. Pendulum Gallery
• 5:45 p.m. Vancouver Convention Center, West Building - Meet Dawn
• 7:00 p.m. The Hastings Warehouse
• 7:53 p.m. Bella Gelateria
• 8:15 p.m. Returned to hotel - put away laundry, receipts, blog, and so forth
• 10:30 p.m. Asleep

NOTES

• Laundry day
• Laundry Valet:
• Staff super helpful; best laundromat experience I've had
• Total cost: $CAD 5-6
• They name the washers and dryers: ours were "Samuel" and "Lady Gaga"
• Fairmont Hotel Vancouver charged fees way out of our price range
• Good deeds:
• Helped guy get back to his cruise ship at Canada Place
• Helped three young travelers looking for Vancouver Info Centre
• Vancouver Art Gallery:
• Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
• Paintings primarily from the Musée Marmottan Monet, I believe
• "The exhibition culminates in a major series of paintings executed in his famous gardens in the French village of Giverny, where Monet lived from 1883 to the end of his life. This series reveals Monet’s astute and sustained visual exploration of plants and water. His distinctive renderings of weeping willows, waterlilies and the Japanese bridge in his garden are among the most iconic imagery in Western painting today."
• Cataracts affected his ability to paint during his last two decades--later paintings seemed more abstract (though not all!)
• Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio, another exhibit, showed 25 photographs of Giverny, including weeping willows, lilies, and arches
• Emily Carr: Into the Forest
• Contrast between new and old
• She painted most of her works in later life -- found myself wondering how age affected her perception of old and new trees in the art
• Easy for me to see the waving grasses she witnessed
• Elad Lassry
• A film projector displaying a motion picture art piece - I enjoyed the technology more than the art
• Pendulum Gallery - per a security guard, the pendulum was not moving due to work on the roof
• Bella Gelateria
• Cone with chocolate brownie and chocolate cherry gelato
• This place won first prize at the 2012  Firenze Gelato Festival with a "pecan and Canadian maple syrup gelato"
• Tractor Foods: they lost my sandwich order but gave me a free lemonade to say thanks--food so good!
• Caffe Artigiano - had an espresso shot and a ham/cheese pastry
• The Hastings Warehouse - meals for only $4.95! Slow but super good...best deal in town
• Kind of an overall catchup day today: apartment rental, tee shirt, Amazon return issue, laundry, and so forth.