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Waking up we were once again bathed in sunshine, and a quick look at the forecast proved that we were to enjoy this sort of weather for the full duration of our time in Vancouver. Great!

We started our day quickly and then headed north for a free activity - visiting the salmon hatchery interpretive center and then the Cleveland dam, before doing some much necessary grocery shopping.

The kids both enjoyed the salmon hatchery which was something that me and Christie had visited on our last trip to Vancouver, but this time we simply drove to the lower level of the canyon it’s located in instead of hiking down (and back up) the precarious (and exhausting) mountain-side trail that we did last time.

In turn we drove back up to the Cleveland dam and spent about an hour there.

Those two brief activities done, we had to do some grocery shopping, and thankfully we found a mall only a short distance from ourselves on the North Vancouver shore.

While the ladies shopped me and my son went to the local electronics chain to investigate the possibility of finding a WiFi repeater. Although there was open WiFi at our campground, the signals were so weak that they were unusable inside our RV, and only in certain locations even outside could I pickup a usable signal. We ended up purchasing a D-Link WiFi repeater with the hope that it would aid us in boosting these signals to a level where they would be usable inside.

Arriving back at our campground we made preparations for our big dinner, and I played around with the new D-Link, having little success.

Our friends arrived (I hadn’t seen my friend Cameron since we last visited Vancouver for his wedding several years ago) and there was much catching up, as well as the traditional camping dinner-fare of hotdogs and hamburgers - something we could be sure that all the kids would probably like. After dinner we all took to the campground pool and relaxed there for a few hours.

After they departed we retired to our site again. We bumped into our neighbors once again and invited them over for a visit which was very enjoyable - the ladies sat and chatted and I played numerous games of Backgammon with the husband while we chatted about everything from campgrounds to destinations. They were retired and spending many months per year traveling from Mexico to Alaska (and everywhere in between) and they had countless interesting stories to share of their adventures.

It wasn’t long and it was nearly midnight, and yet another day came to a close.

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