I started to go through my hundreds (!) of photos of the weekend thus far, but gave up because my eyes refuse to stay open any longer. My friend Michael from Germany phoned this morning at a crazy hour — 06:43 — because he thought I was in Pennsylvania, where it is EST and only 6 hours behind Western Europe. It wouldn’t make any difference except I went to bed after 2am, and I was staying in a room with three others who were fast asleep. Under the circumstances and it being Saturday an’ all, any ring is unwelcome at 06:43.

Photos are from my fam trip to Nanaimo and Sweden’s entry tonight in the fireworks competition that is the HSBC Celebration of Light. I went straight from one to the other.

This post brought to you by the dock dog, eagerly awaiting the ferry to Newcastle Island this morning. This dog looks weekend-ready!

I’ll be the first to admit it — I’m a bit of a technophile. Who else would be at a cafe, uploading photos to Flickr minutes before leaving for a trip? (And taking a computer along in the first place?)
*sheepishly raises hand*
The fireworks photo set is here, by the way:
Celebration of Light - CanadaRealaworld (also [...]

Rachael’s birthday was on Tuesday, so in the afternoon we (being Rachael, Pidge, Richard, and I) went for a photowalk through Chinatown, shooting with the theme of RED.
Hendrik, who was in Edinburgh that day, also participated in the red-themed photowalk, taking some amazing shots around the city. Seeing his Edinburgh photos brought back memories, I [...]

escalator That’s how I feel at the moment, chipping away steadily at my ‘To Do’ list and making progress. It’s a good feeling.
This photo brought to you by somebody’s leg, on the Granville Skytrain station escalator.

I finally have all my lantern festival photos uploaded to Flickr:
Illuminares 2005
This was my first and probably last Illuminares festival, and I’m really glad I made an effort to attend. Even when I used to live off Commercial Drive, I always thought ‘next time’…
I told a friend that living in one place for long (in [...]

Another fam(iliarisation) trip with Hostelling International, but this time a whole 24 hours, all-expenses paid trip to Nanaimo with HarbourLynx, the fast passenger-only ferry. It includes transportation, accommodation, meals, and excursion(s)!
I found out about it late through another infodesk volunteer and didn’t hold much hope I could get in, because there’s only space for 50 [...]

So, how was your weekend? I think I need a weekend from the weekend, if you know what I mean.
The weather in Vancouver was nothing short of summery goodness, and I got a bit too much of that yesterday — I came away with a bit of a sunburn. I didn’t really notice it until [...]

As heard on the #17 Downtown bus travelling north along the Granville Street Bridge. Sorry for the lousy quality, I recorded it using the voice memo option on my mobile phone.

Amazingly, I was on a tourist bus trip around Vancouver all morning yesterday and didn’t take a single photo. It was another fam trip through Hostelling International — a tour bus company just opened up, so they wanted us to know about them.
http://bigbus.ca/
It was a gorgeous day yesterday, so being driven around on the city [...]

Grampa supervising Megan
With my dad, Allan, Cheryl, and all five kids on Wednesday. I always leave a big tip to make up for the big mess we leave.