Monday, 29 August 2011

We had a busy weekend, and some less jealousy-inducing stuff


Adam - ready to climb
Hello all. My work got extended, so I've found myself with almost steady work. Bizarre. Adam has been less fortunate, which is really frustrating. Also frustrating is my complete lack of climbing partner ability. I did try when we eventually got to Lighthouse Park on Saturday, but I pale in comparison to the Birmingham group!

Action shot - sort of
We miss you! (It didn't help that it was boiling hot, my neck hurt from craning with the sun in my eyes, we were surrounded by SEA and BIG ROCKS, and I got horribly badly bitten by small black bitey things. My legs are now covered in blister bites and bright red patches. Luckily, I have some of the super antihistamine tablets from my inflated arm last year, so I'm taking as many as I can without falling asleep!) Adam is still on the jobhunt though - thank you in advance for encouraging words! (Otherwise the longboard may be purchased sooner rather than later, and I'll have lost him to the thrill of skateboarding!)
Salmon festival!
North Shore - near the seabus. After smashing dinner on Saturday night.
We had a good time on Sunday - we went to a small festival celebrating pink salmon. Yes, salmon. These are more eco-friendly than coho or sockeye, so they did this huge free tasting event. We had to queue for a while, but we were rewarded with a DELICIOUS lunch. Never eaten so much salmon all at once. They had stalls and this brilliant bubble machine that produced pink, salmon shaped bubbles! We also had a mooch around Granville Island - very touristy market-y area. Nice, but not terrifically staggeringly amazing. The carved kayaks we saw were quite good though. Lots of marquetry work.

Slushy puppies
After all that, we headed back to Deep Cove, for 'Deep Cove Daze' - a small music festival. Pleasant to sit on the beach and take in the music. We were pooped though. Only slushie drinks kept us going!

Deep Cove Daze view of stage and beach

P.S.
We saw a skunk the other day! Tiny, cute, and not ponky.
P.P.S.
Adam had the ingenious idea of eating our chickpea lunch on Saturday with our safeway loyalty card! (I had forgotten the sporks...) It worked rather well!

4 comments:

  1. See now, you have already started talking in a weird Canadian language. What are coho, when is a sockeye not a sockeye ? It's a David Attenborough blog without subtitles and the sound off. We can only wonder...(Dad)

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  2. Adam, (human fly) what happened to the job dangling off tall towers giving the windows a wipe? You were going to be Pepsi Coke Man to the office ladies weren't you ? No ukelele required. Head for heights essential. You rang the window cleaning guy and then...I think we should be told. Was his equipment didgy ?

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  3. Oops ! That should be dodgy not didgy...but this being Canada, maybe it was both !

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  4. Now we are really jealous. We've got the heating on and have had to dig out our coats...

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