Remember back in the early parts of last year where the people of British Columbia got to enter a lottery type system to purchase tickets for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics? I got in on that first day action and selected my choices. At that time Robyn and I wanted to to attend the various Snowboarding events, primarily the Half-Pipe and Boardercross (SBX). We didn't get our choices so I … Continue Reading »
This year was the first year that both Robyn and I attended the Vancouver Pride Parade and we were entertained the entire time. The parade itself was longer than we both expected but the diversity of people during it were great. I thought it would have been as long as the Santa Claus parade but nope, it kept going past the 2 hour mark. It was a great celebration and … Continue Reading »
The Celebration of Light ended yesterday when China took its turn to wow the massive crowd around English bay. Overall they had a pretty good event, though Robyn and I both believe South Africa's firework display was the best this year. UK was our least favorite, though China and Canada came pretty close. This time we met up with some of our friends and headed down to the beach to see … Continue Reading »
Originally Robyn and I were supposed to take a Firework boat cruise but those plans changed. The weather changed with the approaching thunderstorm it rained while we walked down to Coal Harbour to the Vancouver Harbour Cruise marina. We we're looking forward to a romantic boat cruise what would consist of appetizers and the impressive firework display but things changed when we arrived. After we received our boarding tickets we walked … Continue Reading »
Most people who frequent my blog have probably come to notice I take photos of the local birds we have near where I live, particularly around Lost Lagoon. One of the more popular species of birds that people will watch along the edges of Lost Lagoon would be the Mute Swans. These large, white 'Royal' looking birds are not native to North America either! In fact, you can see them … Continue Reading »
Sunday, June 14th 2009 marks the day that people from around Metro Vancouver got to walk across the newest bridge connecting Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge to Langley. What people didn't realize is that well over the expected 30,000 showed up. Some numbers I have read recently this morning have been that 60,000 people showed up and eventually the Traffic Authority had to turn people away. Robyn, myself, my little sister and … Continue Reading »
Yesterday when Robyn, our friend Jenny and I went to the BCKA Kite Festival we walked by what seemed to be a large gathering of people at Sunset Beach. What we didn't notice was that the people in the middle of the crowd were all nude cyclists. I remember last year while I was walking down Thurlow Street, a horde of nude cyclists whet riding past on Robson Street in … Continue Reading »
Most readers of my blog will know I have many passions in life (one of which is my relationship with Robyn) though recently, the other two I have been focusing as well, is photography and snowboarding. It looks like those two passions of mine are going to fuse together this weekend up at Cypress Mountain; LG Snowboard WorldCup 2009. Robyn and I first learned about the WorldCup Event up at Cypress … Continue Reading »
Listening to the radio on the way home from work they made mention of the Ride to Conquer Cancer which takes place June 20-21. Yes, it's a two day cycling journey that starts here in Vancouver and finishes down in Seattle, Washington. They encourage all ages and physical abilities to take on this challenging task and help raise funds for Cancer Research. When I got home after a couple of errands … Continue Reading »
With the recent snow that we've received here in Vancouver there has been a lot of debate on what the bylaw states are proper snow and ice removal from our fair sidewalks. I have looking through the bylaw as best I could (disclaimer: I am not a lawyer) and have found the section of bylaw that coincides with this matter. Hopefully this will help people understand what is required by … Continue Reading »
