Friday, May 8, 2009

high tech ewok village


The other day we had a chance to visit the Greenheart Canopy Walkway at the UBC Botanical Garden, a 308 metre walkway of a series of suspended bridges high in the forest treetops. It was soooooo cool! As my husband Roger likes to describe it, it was like a futuristic high-tech Ewok village. You can see me in the top photo walking to the other side. It doesn't look scary, but about half way across, I began nervously laughing to myself as the bridge swayed and wobbled. Yub yub!

18 comments:

  1. That looks scary but fun too!

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  2. that's too crazy! i think i had the option to visit that when i was in Vancouver a while ago, but backed out cause i hate heights (...particularly when they're viewed from wobbly suspension bridges!)

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  3. wow! that looks super fun.

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  4. You are even cooler than you already were in my book now that you have mentioned Ewoks in your blog. I am OBSESSED with them, I even have the Ewok village playset. It's in storage now, but I played with it all the time when I first got it (and I was like 21 years old). The yub yub at the end cracked me UP!

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  5. Very cool! I would really want to do this, then be so scared I'd pee.

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  6. I'm so jealous, I want to play on the bridge!

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  7. Crikey you're brave. I'm too scared of heights to try anything like that

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  8. Oh, that is really cool! And very like an Ewok village :)

    It's close to me .. but not quite close enough for a day trip. Looks like a fabulous place to go see in person!

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  9. How cool! What a great experience. Thanks for sharing it with us. :)

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  10. It looks terrific, but you are braver than I am.

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  11. That looks great - wouldn't get me up there - but the pics are lovely!!

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  12. WOW! That is amazing, I would totally chicken out!

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  13. very Ewoky indeed, looks like fun :)

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  14. WOw that looks amazing! I wish I could visit.

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  15. What a neat day trip! This would be the coolest place to take my students on a field trip! Of course, they would either love it, or dissolve into tears within minutes.... It has the potential for huge disaster.... It looks simply amazing though. -e

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  16. Wow, this looks like a ton of fun. I like high places. I used to do a lot of mountain climbing. There is something so exhilarating about being hundreds of feet in the air.

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  17. Aak! You don't think that looks scary?! How awesome, but I don't think I could do it! :)

    ~Erin

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