Trippin': Vancouver - Granville Public Market

The Granville Public Market was the best part of Granville Island. It's a huge market that sells just about everything. Fresh fruit, seafood, meat, bakery goods, sweets, jewelry and even arts and crafts! If I lived there, I would prolly frequent the market to pick up all sorts of things. The weekends are super PACKED. Expect traffic and difficult parking. There are some free parking spots avail but I'm 99% sure you'll end paying to park somewhere. So if anything, try going on a weekday.

We saw a lot of these chestnut roasting stands. And all were operated by cute AZN girls. So all the single guys out there, maybe y'all need to go to your local chestnut stand.

Seafood.

B.C.? British Columbia clams? OR ... BIRTH CONTROL CLAMS!

Lots and lots of fruit.

Mochi was in a furious search for some unique fruits that you can't really find in Houston. She ended up getting some Mangosteen.

Meats.

Pasta.

Lotsa bread.

And sweets.

It's the creepy serial killer chocolate man!

And everything else.

Trippin': Vancouver - Granville Island

Just a super short ride over the Granville Bridge from downtown Vancouver and you're at Granville Island, which is not really an island but who cares about the little details. Granville Island is one of those touristy places that everyone must schedule in when it's their first time there. There's restaurants, shops, a brewery where you can take a tour and then try all kinds of diff beer and best of all, a super cool public market! It was so drizzly while we were there that I wasn't able to take too many fotos. Also, we went there later in the afternoon and the brewery tour was full! Pooey! So it's a good idea to go early and sign up early. We ended up just walking around and taking everything in.

We stopped inside Roger's Chocolates to browse around and also mainly to get out of the rain for a bit. This shop specializes in fancy frou frou chocolates that are hand-wrapped. I'm sure there's more to it than just being hand-wrapped. Haha. The man working there happened to be Vietnamese and so we chummed it up with him pretty fast. He let us sample some chocolates as well as ice-cream. Mochi ended up buying some ice-cream but I decided not to since it was kinda cold outside.

Trippin': Vancouver - Chinatown

Whenever I travel, it's almost always a must to locate that's city's Chinatown. A MUST! I can't speak for the others but I know that big poppa and I can't go very long without having some Asian food in our tummy's. We headed over to Vancouver's Chinatown area in search of a dim sum place the morning before we went boarding. The Chinatown there is not that great. Kinda boring. Richmond is about thirty minutes away and the Chinatown there is awesome. It's huge and there are Chinese people EVERYWHERE. So I would recommend going to Richmond's Chinatown because it's bigger and that means more and better food selections.