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Canada and Me Day
Jul. 2nd, 2009 10:23 amCanada day was a "me" day. I spent it alone doing things that I find relaxing. Writing mostly, and some window shopping in the Broadway/4th Ave/Arbutus/Granville rectangle.
I did end up buying a $10 blanket at a store so that I'd have more cushion to sleep on and it improved the mattress situation greatly. I also found out that the Vanilla Bean Frappe at Calhoun's is delicious. Probably more calories then I want to consume on a regular basis, but I'm on vacation.
This all took the better part of the day and I got back to my room around 7pm. Then I was at odds about what to do for the rest of the day. I figured this would be a great time to go see a movie I'd have no chance of convincing anyone else to see, so I checked the listings. The Girlfriend Experience was playing at Tinseltown and I kind of want to see it. I hopped a bus and went downtown for the 10pm show, intending to grab a bite of supper somewhere on the way.
Plan "A" didn't happen. I got distracted by something shiny - Fireworks! Along the way I heard that there would be fireworks somewhere downtown. Doing a little zen navigating I found myself down at Canada Place at 10:20. I was 10 minutes early for the show and had an unobstructed view of the barge that the fireworks were launched from. Ideal really.
The light show was pretty good - certainly on par with other fireworks displays I'd witnessed in Vancouver. There was a cool Proud to be Canadian vibe going through the crowd too, which was fun. The show was about twenty minutes. I took photos with my phone for about ten of that before deciding that the pictures would look like fireworks on a cell phone camera. For the last ten, I just took in the show.
There wasn't nearly as many people downtown for these fireworks as there is for the annual Celebration of Light later in the month. Thus it was relatively easy to get out of downtown and back to my room.
I did end up buying a $10 blanket at a store so that I'd have more cushion to sleep on and it improved the mattress situation greatly. I also found out that the Vanilla Bean Frappe at Calhoun's is delicious. Probably more calories then I want to consume on a regular basis, but I'm on vacation.
This all took the better part of the day and I got back to my room around 7pm. Then I was at odds about what to do for the rest of the day. I figured this would be a great time to go see a movie I'd have no chance of convincing anyone else to see, so I checked the listings. The Girlfriend Experience was playing at Tinseltown and I kind of want to see it. I hopped a bus and went downtown for the 10pm show, intending to grab a bite of supper somewhere on the way.
Plan "A" didn't happen. I got distracted by something shiny - Fireworks! Along the way I heard that there would be fireworks somewhere downtown. Doing a little zen navigating I found myself down at Canada Place at 10:20. I was 10 minutes early for the show and had an unobstructed view of the barge that the fireworks were launched from. Ideal really.
The light show was pretty good - certainly on par with other fireworks displays I'd witnessed in Vancouver. There was a cool Proud to be Canadian vibe going through the crowd too, which was fun. The show was about twenty minutes. I took photos with my phone for about ten of that before deciding that the pictures would look like fireworks on a cell phone camera. For the last ten, I just took in the show.
There wasn't nearly as many people downtown for these fireworks as there is for the annual Celebration of Light later in the month. Thus it was relatively easy to get out of downtown and back to my room.
