What’s Good This Week – January 5 Edition

What’s Up In Vancouver – Events and Happenings I’d planned on launching into the New Year with new energy and intentions, but as many, I’ve had a nasty cold, so it’s been a bit of a slow start and I’m having to temporarily substitute pajamas for the sports tights I’d planned on wearing. It’s certainly…

Holiday Giveaway For Food Lovers

It’s Time For Our Annual Holiday Giveaway Hope you’re having a fantastic holiday season and for one of you I am going to make it tastier with this year’s Holiday Giveaway worth over $300 that will be drawn on Christmas Day. We’re thanking our readers and followers with our annual holiday giveaway. This time we’ve…

What’s Good This Week – December 1 Edition

What to do Around Vancouver This Week It’s now December and I can’t believe how fast the year has zipped by! I’m already sick of the weather, so I’m heading to sunnier skies on Sunday and off to Palm Springs. In the meantime I’ve got a few things to do before I go including Vancouver…

It’s Not Over Yet – Vancouver Festivities

How are you feeling about the holidays? We’re a little tired over here, but still have some energy to round out the season with some of the sites and scenes we missed while celebrating in the Okanagan. If you are quick you can have some more holiday fun too! The Nutcracker Ballet BC Set in…

Capilano Suspension Bridge Park Open Until January 3 2015

Glittering Lights, Towering Heights and Festive Nights You still have time to catch Canyon Lights at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, the home of the world’s tallest living Christmas tree – 152 feet tall.  In fact we still haven’t go there yet and it’s a must for me every year! The entire park, including the famous suspension bridge, Treetops Adventure and…

Canyon Lights Reaches Record-Breaking Heights for 2013

Love the Capilano Suspension Bridge’s light displays and now there is the world’s tallest live Christmas tree! GLV Canyon Lights, Capilano Suspension Bridge Park’s popular holiday light display is adding some spectacular sparkle for the holidays as it lays claim as the home of the world’s tallest living Christmas tree. Standing 46.4m (152 ft.) tall,…

CONTEST CLOSED #giveaway Canyon Lights at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

Contest Closed – Congrats Fiona The Prize pack is valued around $100.00 and includes a family pass to Canyon Lights, Glass Blowing voucher and some goodies form the Trading Post! To WIN – ALL 3 please 1) Leave a comment on this post naming the park’s newest attraction 2) Follow @goodlifevan on Twitter 3) Post the following…

Canyon Lights illuminate the holidays at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

Canyon Lights, Capilano Suspension Bridge Park’s popular holiday light display adds extra sparkle to the 2012 holiday season with extended hours and dates. A winter tradition on the West Coast, Canyon Lights is a breathtaking event with hundreds of thousands of lights twinkling throughout the rainforest, across the Suspension Bridge and on CLIFFWALK, the Park’s…

Canyon Lights opens Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

CLIFFWALK adds sensational new glow to annual event Canyon Lights opens Friday evening at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park with the biggest and brightest holiday light display to date. CLIFFWALK, the park’s latest attraction and a hit with guests since it opened in June, brings an exciting new holiday thrill during the winter chill.  The narrow…

CLIFFWALK Opens at Capilano Suspension Bridge on June 3

At 300 feet (91 metres) above Capilano River, CLIFFWALK is an adrenaline-pumping series of narrow suspended stairs, bridges and walkways. A signature u-shaped bridge cantilevered over the river canyon and glass-bottomed decks highlight the 700 foot (213 metre) journey, offering spectacular river, canyon and rainforest views. Educational signage with ecological information from the David Suzuki…

Explore the North Shore

Looking out from my Kitsilano apartment, I can see the snow-capped mountains to the distant north.  While snow is something Vancouverites do not handle well on our downtown city steets, there are many who, like myself, are more than happy to see it creep down the hills calling to us  “come out to play”.  Growing up in the Okanagan, we packed our…