Vancouver adventures and Young Living Canadian Convention

DAY 1
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to travel to Vancouver for the Young Living Canadian Convention. It was my first solo trip on a plane by myself! I stayed with my friend Laura who is a member of the Church as well.
Our first day, we wanted to take a session at the Vancouver temple so we took many forms of public transit to get there. For the most part, it was raining and we had our suitcases with us so we were pretty wet. It was quite the adventure. We stopped for some Pho and took a break at a library to dry off and to read the Book of Mormon. We are both taking part in President Nelson's counsel to read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year.

We eventually made it to the temple and participated in a lovely session. Afterwards, one of the matrons was willing to drive us back to our hotel so we wouldn't have to take the public transit all the way back downtown.

DAY 2
Since the YL event didn't start until the evening, this was a great day for exploring Vancouver. Laura decided to go back to the temple and I wanted to venture around downtown. I ate breakfast at the hotel and then tracked down a grocery store close-by so I could grab some groceries. Then the adventure began.
Because we are members at the Telus World of Science, we have access to difference centres all over the globe and I thought this was a good opportunity to check out Vancouver's! It's a beautiful facility and there was a lot of fun exhibits. It was weird though to go there without any kids!

After the science centre, I wandered around to find a cute bookstore and then I had  some food, and checked out a library.

I met up with Laura later that night to register at the convention center. We got some pretty awesome swag and afterwards we went out for dinner with some members of the team.

My favourite thing to eat for breakfast

The autumn leaves are so pretty here

Convention registration

SWAG

DAY 3
Convention day! It was filled with a lot of valuable information and a lot of fun. The sessions were all informative and inspiring. It was also a bit overwhelming at times but overall I had a really good time.

We travelled back home late last night. It was a long day and night of travelling. We made it home safely and I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had to go.