Not shopping. We like museums, city walking, parks etc. Not really hiking - but if there is a spot to rent a bike and ride around - awesome.
We don't have a wealth of museums, but there is the
VAG (Vancouver Art Gallery) You might have already seen it, I'm pretty sure it was used as the Museum in the Night at the Museum movies.
City walking, good places to check out are
Granville Island ,
Gastown , or near the
Vancouver Public Library (Central Library Location) , the library has also been used as a lot of movie sets, due to it's kind of futuristic architecture.
If you have a car, taking a drive up the
Sea to Sky highway is really great views. Mountains, oceans, and in July, usually pretty great weather. You can visit
Whistler, where a lot of the 2010 winter olympics events took place, and on the way up you go through
Squamish, which has the
Britannia Mine (A personal favourite, since I worked on the restoration of the mine site).
As mentioned, the
Capilano Suspension Bridge is a really cool place to check out. Same with
Stanley Park , and if you do go to the park, you can visit the
Vancouver Aquarium, as it's located there! They also have a miniature train ride, horse drawn carriage rides, and I think you can rent bikes there too (I'm not sure, here in BC we have bike helmet laws)
If you want to gamble a bit, there is River Rock casino near the airport, Parq casino downtown, and Grand Villa casino a bit farther out in Burnaby.
Feel free to hit me up if you have any other questions. I mean, I guess you could always come check out our Chanman Poker Tables warehouse if you really want.