What could be more disappointing than July 1st falling on a Tuesday? It throws off our national flow. There really is no point to being Canadian if you don’t get your mandatory 4 LONG weekends in summer to enjoy the beautiful outdoors.
So we were short-changed this one-- I forgive you Gregorian calendar for this injustice. And will take my month of three pay cheques (October 2008 is the next one) in place of a true July 1 long weekend.
This technically wasn’t my first long weekend in Vancouver, but again, it wasn’t a long weekend! The weather was hot and sunny, totally unlike Vancouver, but totally welcomed. On Friday evening Ray and I kicked off our non-long weekend with a trip to Costco…yes you heard right. But we quickly redeemed ourselves with a sunset stroll to Jericho beach. We saw wild bunny rabbits, kids getting caught drinking in public. It was a riot. We capped the night off passing out in front of the TV.
Saturday morning Ray went to his highly anticipated ping-pong tournament. I took Bonsai for a 2 hour walk to the doggy beach, he has become quite the seasoned swimmer! The hot sun was too much for him to bare, so I finally took him home to pass out in the cool condo. The ping pong tournament was a success, Ray made it past 8 round robin games to the playoffs, but lost to a little Chinese boy, a little Chinese girl and an old Chinese lady. Needless to say we took our non-Chinese behinds far away from there. Afternoon naps. Yummy dinner at Memphis Blues BBQ House, the best pulled pork I’ve ever had. Next we scootered off to the Grand daddy of gelato places. Over 200 flavours! I sampled garlic, and balsamic, both exactly what you would expect them to taste like, but finally decided on Bailey’s Chocolate cheesecake. Again, we capped the night off passed out in front of the TV.
Sunday morning, bright and early we headed off to Squamish to hike the Stawamus Chief. It was perfect weather for the hike, 2 hours later we arrived at Third peak, for a panoramic view of the Sunshine coast and the surrounding mountains. After 2 PB & J sandwiches and Ray finally calmed down from being chased by a chipmunk we began the nasty descent. It was actually harder to climb downhill than up. Had a yummy home cooked dinner of Szechuan fish stir fry and then went to the Jazz festival. A musician who had extensively studied, get this-- Cuban music of Romania and Bulgaria???--was performing, he was amazing. Who knew?! And guess what? We capped the night off passed out in front of the TV!
Happy Canada Day!
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