How was your day?

This past weekend was pretty great

Hopped on the Ferry in the morning and then took the bus from the terminal into the city. It was like $9 for an all-day bus pass which seems like a great deal to me-considering how expensive taxis are. Checked into the hotel and dropped our stuff off and then decided to explore the city a bit. We went to China town and I bought some cute stationery because I enjoy writing snail mail from time to time

From there we checked out Gastown, which wasn't anything great to me. It seemed pretty standard and touristy, but the overall atmosphere was nice. From there we went to Granville Island and looked around the shops more. The shop I wanted to look at, a letterpress shop, was closed for the day, unfortunately. We bought some Okanagan-grown nectarines from the open market and enjoyed sitting by the dockside. Later that evening we went to the observatory.

Then on Sunday we woke up early and hopped on a bus to Stanley Park to go to the aquarium. Thankfully we got there early enough that it wasn't a total zoo with children running around. Stephen and I were both a bit sore from walking most of the day yesterday so after checking out the first floor we took a break at the coffeeshop for a bit.
These had to have been my favorite things there- the 'fried-egg jellyfish' and they actually had a preserved coelacanth, which is something I find to be fascinating.

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Afterwards we went back into the city and got Chipotle for lunch and I checked out a few higher-end stores but I didn't see anything that I absolutely had to have. Somehow Stephen managed to lose his bus pass and we were in the general vicinity of where we had reservations for dinner so we walked down to the ocean and wasted some time there. After dinner we hopped on the bus to the venue to see Boris.

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That custom double-neck tho:

Oh yeah, and we manage to get the set list and I streetpassed one of the guitarists

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It was a fun, relaxing weekend indeed.