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Wow, it didn't take me long to fall off the post-every-day wagon. Ok, time to get back on.
The whole point of this trip was to do the Victoria ½ Marathon. A strain injury that I'm currently sorting out with the aid of a physiotherapist clobbered that idea. I could have simply cancelled the trip but instead the Vancouver visit that was tacked on after the ½ marathon became the whole point of the trip. Why not? I like visiting my friends in Vancouver.
I cancelled my Victoria hotel room, added a day to my Vancouver hotel room and rearranged my flight so that I'd be getting into Vancouver on Saturday afternoon instead of Victoria. The additional cost for changing the flight was absorbed by a slightly cheaper room and no ferry trip.
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stephtopia and she mentioned that othelianna was having a birthday party on Friday night. So then I rearranged the flight again (and Westjet waived the rebooking fee since it was the second time in less than a day) so that I'd be getting in Friday night. At no point did I tell R. In fact, I abstained from talking about the trip at all. Normally there'd have been a "Vancouver, I AM IN YOU!" Twitter/Facebook post.
Highlights of the trip:
Friday I crashing R's birthday party. Damn near everyone else bailed on her, because they're LOSERS, but not me. Cheese of both the food and movie variety was had. Some of the cheese included Hamlet 2, a movie that is in the same vein as Napoleon Dynamite - three good scenes, surrounded by awkwardness. I also enjoyed some rum and managed to crash in the spare room since my hotel room wasn't ready until Saturday night.
Saturday we made meals forsomejauntypolka and her family, since baby K is taking up all of their spoons. And by make, I mean buy all the ingredients and look helpless until S does all the work. It was pretty good, even if we did have to sub in rotini for the lasagne noodles I forgot. I also whipped up some mini cheesecakes, just so I could assert that I know my way around a kitchen.
Sunday I met with othelianna for my birthday present to her: a movie of her choice followed by dinner on me. She did insist on buying the popcorn though. The movie was Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 and dinner was at EXP, Vancouver's other nerd bar. EXP wants to be the bar for video gamers (but is having an ongoing dispute with the city of Vancouver over being able to have games and liquor simultaneously).
Monday I metbognaustroglum, KS and FM at Tangent restaurant on Commercial drive. It was a good visit with those folks. It was also noteworthy in that Tangent seems to hire ex-runway models (seriously, they all had that long willowy look. Maybe they were sisters) and it has the best bacon I've had in Vancouver.
RS and I then walked down to Gourmet Warehouse, where I managed to spend less than $50 (shocking. I blame my lack of large luggage). I then caught a bus out to Port Moody. That there was a single bus that went near to Port Wood was kind of astonishing.
As an aside, this was the bus I was planning on taking out there on Friday night if I couldn't get a ride. Google maps suggested that the bus was a twenty minute walk to their house, but looking at it I could see that there was a 100 metre stretch of woods that would cut the distance by 80%. S convinced me in an earlier conversation not to do that ("You'll get eaten by a bear" were her exact words. I've since learned she wasn't joking). What I hadn't considered was elevation. That twenty minute walk was at a very steep grade. Attempting the woods would have meant taking a route that was about three degrees short of being a cliff. As it was, I'm glad I didn't do either route with a full backpack, I'd have fucked my back for the whole trip.
somejauntypolka, bognaustroglum, chris9871 and baby K showed up to say hi and take possession of their not-lasagnes and ended up hanging out for a bit. After they left, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving repast followed by drinking and Cards Against Humanity. LG brought her charming company to the company as well.
Tuesday we rented a car and day-tripped into Seattle. The purpose was to jam a sandwich from Paseo Carribean Restaurant intoothelianna's mouth. We also went shopping in the Fremont area (where I bought myself a cookbook for making desserts in jars). We rounded out the day coming in 10th out of 28 at Geeks Who Drink trivia. I feel that if I could combine my previous two Geeks Who Drink teams together, we'd have a nigh-unbeatable combination. Bonus: I didn't doze off once bring the car back to Vancouver. Good thing too, as I was the driver.
Oh, and Budget is a bunch of jerks.
Wednesday was hurry-up-and-wait-for-your-flight day. I did have some quality time withsomejauntypolka though - we had lunch at Red Ginger and she dropped me off at the airport. Another successful Vancouver trip.
Overall Thoughts?
I should have stayed longer. Given the amount of time I spent at Port Wood, I should have simply skipped the hotel room and stayed there. I'm happy the depression is waning.
The whole point of this trip was to do the Victoria ½ Marathon. A strain injury that I'm currently sorting out with the aid of a physiotherapist clobbered that idea. I could have simply cancelled the trip but instead the Vancouver visit that was tacked on after the ½ marathon became the whole point of the trip. Why not? I like visiting my friends in Vancouver.
I cancelled my Victoria hotel room, added a day to my Vancouver hotel room and rearranged my flight so that I'd be getting into Vancouver on Saturday afternoon instead of Victoria. The additional cost for changing the flight was absorbed by a slightly cheaper room and no ferry trip.
Then I got talking to
stephtopia and she mentioned that othelianna was having a birthday party on Friday night. So then I rearranged the flight again (and Westjet waived the rebooking fee since it was the second time in less than a day) so that I'd be getting in Friday night. At no point did I tell R. In fact, I abstained from talking about the trip at all. Normally there'd have been a "Vancouver, I AM IN YOU!" Twitter/Facebook post.Highlights of the trip:
Friday I crashing R's birthday party. Damn near everyone else bailed on her, because they're LOSERS, but not me. Cheese of both the food and movie variety was had. Some of the cheese included Hamlet 2, a movie that is in the same vein as Napoleon Dynamite - three good scenes, surrounded by awkwardness. I also enjoyed some rum and managed to crash in the spare room since my hotel room wasn't ready until Saturday night.
Saturday we made meals for
somejauntypolka and her family, since baby K is taking up all of their spoons. And by make, I mean buy all the ingredients and look helpless until S does all the work. It was pretty good, even if we did have to sub in rotini for the lasagne noodles I forgot. I also whipped up some mini cheesecakes, just so I could assert that I know my way around a kitchen.Sunday I met with othelianna for my birthday present to her: a movie of her choice followed by dinner on me. She did insist on buying the popcorn though. The movie was Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 and dinner was at EXP, Vancouver's other nerd bar. EXP wants to be the bar for video gamers (but is having an ongoing dispute with the city of Vancouver over being able to have games and liquor simultaneously).
"There's a guy in a Pikachu costume heading to the men's room."I subsequently discovered that EXP has sane restrooms, so this wasn't actually possible. Also, S suggested that there was a good chance that I'd have bitten off more than I could chew.
"I need to go to the men's room too, just so I can stand immediately behind him at the urinal and whisper I choose you in his ear."
Monday I met
bognaustroglum, KS and FM at Tangent restaurant on Commercial drive. It was a good visit with those folks. It was also noteworthy in that Tangent seems to hire ex-runway models (seriously, they all had that long willowy look. Maybe they were sisters) and it has the best bacon I've had in Vancouver.RS and I then walked down to Gourmet Warehouse, where I managed to spend less than $50 (shocking. I blame my lack of large luggage). I then caught a bus out to Port Moody. That there was a single bus that went near to Port Wood was kind of astonishing.
As an aside, this was the bus I was planning on taking out there on Friday night if I couldn't get a ride. Google maps suggested that the bus was a twenty minute walk to their house, but looking at it I could see that there was a 100 metre stretch of woods that would cut the distance by 80%. S convinced me in an earlier conversation not to do that ("You'll get eaten by a bear" were her exact words. I've since learned she wasn't joking). What I hadn't considered was elevation. That twenty minute walk was at a very steep grade. Attempting the woods would have meant taking a route that was about three degrees short of being a cliff. As it was, I'm glad I didn't do either route with a full backpack, I'd have fucked my back for the whole trip.
somejauntypolka, bognaustroglum, chris9871 and baby K showed up to say hi and take possession of their not-lasagnes and ended up hanging out for a bit. After they left, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving repast followed by drinking and Cards Against Humanity. LG brought her charming company to the company as well.Tuesday we rented a car and day-tripped into Seattle. The purpose was to jam a sandwich from Paseo Carribean Restaurant into
othelianna's mouth. We also went shopping in the Fremont area (where I bought myself a cookbook for making desserts in jars). We rounded out the day coming in 10th out of 28 at Geeks Who Drink trivia. I feel that if I could combine my previous two Geeks Who Drink teams together, we'd have a nigh-unbeatable combination. Bonus: I didn't doze off once bring the car back to Vancouver. Good thing too, as I was the driver.Oh, and Budget is a bunch of jerks.
Wednesday was hurry-up-and-wait-for-your-flight day. I did have some quality time with
somejauntypolka though - we had lunch at Red Ginger and she dropped me off at the airport. Another successful Vancouver trip.Overall Thoughts?
I should have stayed longer. Given the amount of time I spent at Port Wood, I should have simply skipped the hotel room and stayed there. I'm happy the depression is waning.
