blogged about...sorry if I repeat myself here!!
So after a 'familiar' few days in Taipei I arrived in Vancouver.
Hannah picked me up and we went for celebration cocktails up
vancouvers revolving restaurant. Great to see her, just like old times
- except this time she's getting married!! We spent the week preparing
little bits and bobs - drawing up table cards, seating plans,
playlists, decorations, all the last minute arrangements. It was great
to have something exciting to focus on! Maiko San - teacher from
Okinawa, and I took one day off to go to Bancouver Island. Beautiful
ferry ride over - you go through all these little narrow inlets,
gorgeous scenery. I spotted an orca? a whale? a killer whale?? Not
sure - just saw the large slow dorsel fin! Victoria is a cute little
town but Vancouver island is HUGE!!! I didn't feel like I did it
justice - you'd need to rent a car and zoom all over the place.
We also skipped south of the border into the US to do some last minute
wedding shopping. Much cheaper down there. Outlet malls :) amazing! We
ate cosco hotdogs...amazing at the time - felt rancid later :(
The wedding day came, hannah looked amazing. Matt (her bloke) is great
- he's American but studied at the same university as Hannah - they
never met each other but they share all the same friends! Fate must
have been keeping them apart until they were ready!!! Thank the lord
for facebook bringing them together years later :)
Great wedding. Photos in the forest by Cultus Lake then the ceremony
then reception - then clean up party!! :)
The next day I went to meet the happy couple so that I could get
hannahs car for the week they are in Mexico! We stumbled on an Asian
shopping plaza, with a huge 100 円 store inside - bigger than the
one I found in Taipei! Everything was $2.
So, I have the apartment and the car - it's great! I went up to north
Vancouver and hiked around the forest up Lynn Canyon and Rice Lake -
perfect running trails up there. Watched the big hockey game on tv
last night - the Canucks lost :( it's the play-offs and everyone is
very serious about it!
Today I decided to venture back to the US - as far as Seattle. It only
took 2.5 hours to get here - the weather is beautiful. I walked around
the Pike Market. I found the original starbucks :) went up the space
needle, (really cool view and has loads of information about the city)
went up to Capitol hill to the Asia art museum - the first Thursday of
the month, all the museums are free in Seattle. They had an exhibition
of Japanese woodblock paintings. Really beautiful. Then strolled back
to downtown. My hostel-The Green Tortoise- has free dinner! I'm off to
check it out!
Tomorrow I'm going to run around the city, then drive back to
Vancouver - stopping at a big triathlon shop and the Nike outlet mall
on the way north :)
I jump on a 9 day backpacker tour on Tuesday, it was the most economic
way to see everything. I'm excited!
Sent from my iPhone
No comments:
Post a Comment