My Week in Vancouver

I love being with family and friends. I regret not taking any photos (except when I went to see my god-daughter), so I apologize to my readers.

From Sunday (night) to Tuesday, I hung out with my parents and sister. I love being able to just sit around and shoot the breeze, although there wasn't much of a breeze to speak of -- it was so hot!

On Wednesday, I celebrated my god-daughter's one-year-old birthday at her house. She is able to say a few words now and crawl really fast around the house. She is so smart -- when she knows she is down to her final Cheerio or blueberry, she savours the last one instead of just popping in the last morsel. Here she is playing in the kiddie pool (sorry, but I didn't know how to turn my video the right side up).


On Thursday, I had dinner with my friend, W, at Brown's in Yaletown and then we walked down Marinaside Crescent and stopped to chat while watching Dragon Boat teams practice along Stamp's Landing. Finally, we went to Kino Cafe on Cambie to drink chilled sangria and enjoyed the flamenco performances. I haven't seen this friend since my wedding two years ago and we haven't been able to hang out since we were in high school. She's been a very good friend of mine since primary school. Thank goodness for Facebook!

On the Friday before heading home, I was able to catch up with another old-time friend, M, who was my bridesmaid at my wedding. Like W, I haven't seen M since my wedding either. Why do Vancouverites think Mission is so far?!? M and I had lunch at Ichiro in Steveston before grabbing some frozen yogurt at Timothy's and strolling around Steveston.

Starting on Friday evening and ending around Sunday evening, my sister and nine other people stayed at my house for the long weekend. Ai yah! It was really nice meeting my sister's friends as they are all so friendly and fun-loving, but I'm not sure my husband and I would do something like that again. Our house looked like a hostel with all the sleeping bags, luggage, snacky foods, and blow-up mattresses lying all over the place. All in all, they were great company to have.