Several months before last summer got started, my wife came to me and said that she wanted to take a trip somewhere interesting. I asked her why she wanted to go on a trip, and she said that she had been feeling a little stir crazy recently and really thought it would be good for her to get out of our town for awhile and go somewhere different. Interestingly enough, I had been feeling the exact same way, so it didn’t take me long at all to agree to find a summer vacation for the two of us.

We looked at a lot of potential travel destinations, but we ended up selecting Vancouver. Although neither of us had been there before, we did a lot of reading, and it seemed like that Vancouver had a whole lot to offer.

Fortunately, all of the reading we did was correct, because our week and a half in Vancouver were quite enjoyable. In fact, I think the fact that we had never been there before made our trip even more fun. Since we didn’t know what to expect, we got to Vancouver with no preconceived expectations, and ended up having one of the best trips of our lives!