I'm just about to head back to Merry old England but I thought I would post some pics before I left Canuckville. We cheated slightly this trip and actually spent a day in a city that contained no relatives. It was a kind of a missed anniversary thing; we were in different cities on our actual wedding anniversary. We couldn't spend the entire time on our own so we called up a few friends that had just moved to Vancouver from England and arranged to meet for breakfast.
One of these was my friend C. At her leaving party she begged me to introduce her to a hunky lumberjack in a plaid shirt. I couldn't actually think of any marriageable lumberjacks I was still in contact with so I emailed my friend D who at least is Canadian, single, and owns a chainsaw. He's also currently working in Beijing, but no matter. I suggested to D that he should email C, and suggested to C that she should email D. I never heard back from either of them and so assumed that both had chickened out. I'd introduced each of them to more than one person via the magic of the interweb so wasn't surprised that they appeared to have ignored me this time.
This was not the case, however, and both had been conducting a lively correspondence behind my back which culiminated in D suggesting to C that he take her out for coffee. Apparently he had holidays he had to take and figured he might as well pop back to Vancouver. She pointed out that I would be in town at the time and that we could all meet up together.
The morning dawned wet a gloomy and Vicki and I decided to begin our day like true Vancouverites and went for a run through Stanley Park. It was a just light drizzle, nothing too serious. I knew that C's new flat was near Stanley Park so I called her up from Lost Lagoon and suggested we come by to see it.
"Ack! No!" she said. "It's a complete mess! Give me 20 minutes to clean up!" As soon as we hung up, she called D and he rushed over to our place. Meanwhile, Vicki and I had a leisurely coffee and then went over to C's.
And so when we went into C's flat, there was Derrick. This completely blew me away because I thought he was in Beijing.
We had a great breakfast and a great day together. After B.C. Bennies at the Elbow Room, the six of us (joined by the Pidges) introduced C to the magic that is Mountain Equipment Co-op. The poor woman owns no gortex. WTF! We then rounded out the day with an extended coffee session.
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