After a crazy Saturday night which included a trip to Irish House 2010 (a badly planned outing on my part considering I didn't check the schedule to make sure that the Irish bands were performing. After a near 5 hour wait, we entered the drunkfest only to shell out $9 for a plastic cup of Guiness. The beer price was painful to take but the company was good as was the burger), I spent Saturday at home lounging with movies but Sunday was a whole other ballgame.
I headed out to Granville Island for a little adventure with a few folks from the Bookcrossing group. We had a great time wandering around the Island, checking out the sites, taking lots of photos and just having a jolly good time.
While there we also did a little shopping, a bit of eating and lots of walking around allowing me to take photos of everything from birds to jugglers.
Dale and I left the ladies around 2PM to head into Vancouver and meet up with Special K. Dale was smart and decided to listen to his body and while headed for dinner on Commercial, Dale called it a day. Special K and I ended up at Lombardo's, a great little place I'd always hear about but never been to. With amazing food, we sat for a break and watched the devastating Canada vs. US hockey game.
After an incredible dinner, we headed back downtown to check out the happenings around Concord Pacific before heading into Ontario House and checking out the Great Lake Swimmers. The band played for a little over an hour. They put on a great show which I thoroughly enjoyed. Kudos to CBC Radio 2 for introducing me to this great little band.
After a full day of walking and standing, I was pretty much ready to call it a day. I collapsed into bed sometime just after 1AM but judging from what I felt like this morning, it may as well have been 5AM. My body felt like someone had beat me up. It was a long and painful day and I should really have been in bed by now but alas, this is the way the cookie crumbles.
If you're curious, many more photos from our Bookcrossing adventures can be found in this Flickr Set while my Olympic Set simply keeps growing as I add new images every day!
I leave you now with this great tune from Ontario band Great Lake Swimmers who sounded as fabulous live as they do on the radio (and in this song).
I may have been MIA for a few weeks but I promise you that outside of a nasty cold, I've just been really busy.
Dale is pushing the boundries of comfort (in a good way) by forging ahead with new technology and to prepare for some video coverage of the 1st Annual Vancouver Brazilian Film Festival, we did a short video last night at the Vancouver Bookcrossing Meetup. It was good fun and I promised I'd share, even though I look worn down and was having a hard time with the microphone positioning, but overall, not a bad first attempt. The only other thing I have to remember is to not yell into the mic (like I do in the opening few seconds) but otherwise, not too bad. Enjoy!
I *should* have known but I didn't. Shortly after I finished reading Stephenie Meyer's trilogy, I took all three massive books to a Bookcrossing Meetup where vanbiohazard took them home. I didn't think twice about it at the time but I can't tell you the amount of times I've kicked myself since then. I should have kept them and damned it, now I don't have them to refer back to. I just never knew this entire Bella/Edward story would blow up the way it has.
"Breaking Dawn" is due out a bit later this year (59 days and counting) but clicking around Meyer's site, I found a link to "Midnight Sun" which is essentially Edward's take on "Twilight". Now that's mighty interesting. The pdf to the first chapter is here but I don't want to read it until I have the original to compare it to. You know what that means right? Looks like I'll be dropping some money on the book. A second time. *sigh*
It was insanely busy yesterday and it didn't stop when I got home. Instead, I ended up doing last minute prep for the Bookcrossing Christmas party. It was a great success and sure to turn into an annual event. It was very exciting.
Only 2 weeks left until the Christmas holidays. I'm very excited to be getting a week off. I can catch up on reading and a number of movies I have sitting on my DVD player. I've got to tell you... I had to stop playing with my Nintendo. I bought a new game, Final Fantasy III, and OMG. For two weeks after I bought it, it was all I did. Every spare moment was dedicated to the game. And then last week I realized I hadn't picked up a book in 2 weeks. I've taken the cartridge out and left the game at home. Have to get on with some reading! But wow. Talk about addicting!
Back to work now. I have a stack of drawings that need to be organized!
