Random observations

You don't cash your check and go to the bathroom/restroom; you cash your cheque and go to the washroom. :)

Vancouver is just full of A&W restaurants. Yes! Remember A&W root beer, and the stands used to be all around? In Vancouver, they still are.

There are about 10 times as many Starbucks coffee shops here than there are even in Southern California, where we've established a reputation for our grandé triple-whip half-caff lattés, or whatever.

Half to three-quarters of the buses on the public transit system are electric, not petrol-powered; there is a network of cables above the streets for them to operate on. I've read that the exhaust from one gas-powered bus can be worse than the amount that would have been emitted had each of the passengers taken a separate car. Judging by the gunk you have to breathe when one passes by, I believe it. It's so refreshing here when one of the electric buses passes and you smell... nothing. They're quieter, too!