Wednesday, August 8, 2012

How to make the most out of a rainy day in Vancouver

If anybody is following this, it has rained everywhere we have stopped so far....

Canada you beautiful neighbor upstairs if I would have known you were so kind and loving I would have moved here forever ago.

I am at a loss for words tonight. We got to Vancouver today and ran around here and there, but the weather moved in and we couldn't go out and do what we had wanted to. So it looked like we were going to stay in and go to bed early.

Wait a sec, we are in Vancouver Frickin' Canada eh! Why in the world would you want to stay in when you could go out and see this beautiful city at night!

PROBLEM: no car, no cash.
SOLUTION: walk/dance/moonwalk etc...

So I sort of just picked a direction and started walking [I didn't take the camera because it was raining and the camera is worth more than I am, sorry for the lack of pictures] I didn't have a plan so I thought about it as I was walking and decided that I was going to make a new friend. The Lions Gate Bridge caught my eye and I decided that I was going to walk over and look at the cityscape from above. WHAT A FANTASTIC IDEA!

I made my way to the bridge and started walking across, I sort of got distracted singing and dancing because I was in that kind of a mood, on top of that, the lights on the bridge were SUPER NEATO so I wasn't exactly paying attention and I walked straight into this girl [hell of an introduction eh?] walked isn't the right word, it was more of a spin-stumble-headbut-fallontheground sort of thing. A happy little bump I think is the word I'm looking for. Before I could rush out my apology this girl was laughing her little butt off, and before I knew it, so was I.

I introduced myself and she introduced herself and we started talking. She is an artist who lives here and comes to the bridge for inspiration. I am an unobservant tourist who sings off key and knocks people down, but she was wearing headphones so she couldn't hear me! [or so she said, but I was singing pretty loud!]

We stood there on the bridge and talked for what seemed like forever. She told me her life story, I told her mine. We had a mini air guitar jam session because she is awesome. We both agreed that life was beautiful and that things like this happen for a reason. It started raining gigantic rain [a bug's life style] and she said she had to leave. Before she left, she reached into her bag and pulled out a towel for me to walk home in so the rain wasn't so cold, turned around, and just as soon as she came into my life, she was gone.

“Life is what you make of it” Parting words I'll never forget. I walked skipped danced and sang my way back to the hotel where Jackson an Merian were crashed out. PERFECT EXAMPLE. I could have stayed in and gone to sleep, but I didn't, and I made a new friend because of it.

Tomorrow I am going to check out a place called Mean Poutine *sp? She says it's the best poutine in town, and I have no reason to believe otherwise.

Jenni if you ever end up reading this I just want to thank you again for such a wonderful night. If you ever visit the states Ill take you out anytime! [just email me]


Cheers!

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