Bright Nights in Stanley Park!

For a date night, Remi and I were joined by a couple of friends for a holiday train ride around Stanley Park. They set up a bazillion lights and characters around the park for your viewing pleasure. It's really popular and you have to book in advance (so that Ticketmaster can hose you) and proceeds go to support firefighters. Dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory is als0 a part of it.

This is our train - it broke down within the first few seconds of our ride. We were stuck for about 20 minutes or so, until they could bring in a new engine. They swore that the train NEVER breaks down, but then had candy on deck to appease the riders... I think it may happen more often than they are willing to admit ;)


Ahhhh!!!! This bear was scary. And our train stopped right in front of him!!

Raccoons were wandering around all over the place. Cute, but deadly!!

Remi has been playing with the camera to make all these streaky pictures.

These guys really looked like they were skating on ice, although this wasn't frozen at all.

It was fun, even though it frequently felt like the train was going off the tracks ;)

Sarah