Vancouver 2010

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Village

BC Place, Canada Hockey Place, Provincial Houses, Downtown Vancouver

The kids with the Quebec House in the background

Derek in front of the Molson Canadian Leaf

Canadian Hockey House

Everyone started building these rock people on the False Creek shoreline in front of the Provincial Houses. There were hundreds of them and they were really cool. I tried to make one but it kept falling over. Jordan made a mini one.

Hurricane Potato = Deep fried potato on a stick.

Are those PEI potatoes?

Gretzky was here.

Everyone had Maple Leafs on. So much red and white everywhere.

We went to Granville Island. There's all these art galleries and studios, jewelry stores, a Boqueria style Market Place, and seagulls that try to dive bomb your head.

Here is a lady carving a Totem Pole with a chainsaw.

Average morning in Vancouver.

View of the mountains from UBC campus.

Real life Totem Poles.

Big Totem Pole.

Museum of Anthropology.

We had a great time in Vancouver. The city is so beautiful; it has mountains, and harbors, and the Pacific Ocean, and Killer Whales, and tall buildings, and fun bars and restaurants, and sweet public transit. We had hockey tickets to the Germany v Finland game. It was really fun listening to the German fans clap and sing and chant Deutschland!! even though Finland won 5-0. But the really great part was when USA beat Canada 5-3 on Sunday night!!! We were at a friend's house and everyone was pissed at the guys who brought the American chicks.

It was even fun just to walk through the streets and see the THOUSANDS of people dressed up in their country's colors. Everyone was singing and dancing and cheering and drunk. I think the City of Vancouver did a really great job helping people get around. They had volunteers giving out directions and extra trains and buses running all day. Everyone was really nice. We definitely lucked out with the weather. It didn't rain once all weekend. It felt like Spring Break for us - it was a toasty 50 degrees instead of Baltimore's freezing high of 30.

NYC Birthday

We surprised our friend Cassie in NYC for her 30th birthday this weekend. We had a lot of fun and Cassie was super surprised. We ate Maoz Falafel, hung out at the Superdive, ate at Pomme Frits, danced to crappy country music (Cassie danced on the bar), shopped in SOHO, and went to Barking Dog for breakfast with Mel and Jean. I heart NY.

Snow:2 Baltimore:0

We had another blizzard yesterday that dumped another 18" of snow on top of the massive amounts of snow we got over the weekend. There's so much snow that I'm convinced it's never going to melt. Derek and I ventured out into the storm to the local beer establishment to play Yahtzee and have some drinks with friends.
Check out my snow angel making skills. Jealous?

Happy 25th Birthday Martine!!

me and boomer

me and cassie and matt

saturday morning bank street

killer boots man

all the trees on bank street broke and fell on the cars

the street (those giant white piles are cars)

cassie with a roadie

patterson park

adam and boomer

brett and matt and cans on ice

the crew hangin at the alley bar

on my walk home this morning

Holy Blizzard. This is crazy. It started snowing on Friday night and 36" later it stopped. It's so much fun! This town is awesome. Here are some photos I've taken since Friday night. I've been hanging out with my friends at Bank Street. We've been eating and drinking and inner tubing and drinking all weekend. One of the guys that lives down the street from them built a bar out of snow in the front of their house. Sweet. I wish you all were here to party in the streets with us.

Happy Birthday Sister!! I miss you tons.

And the winner is...

Mel and Jean were our first official visitors! They win. We had a good time walking around and eating and drinking and shopping. Can't wait for all you alls to come visit too.

That's fancy girl.

I had a job interview today that went really well. I hope I get the job. But more importantly, I went to CVS on my way home to get some make up, lotion, and felt stickers. (the usual) They didn't have anyone working the check out so everyone was forced to use the self check out lane. Self check out lanes blow. You stand in front of the computer and this lady welcomes you to CVS - duh, I've been here for hours and I'm finally ready to leave. She commands you to scan your item. After waving it in front of the laser beam 30 times before it registers, she forces you to 'put your item into the plastic bag'. (what if don't want to use plastic bags - what then?) So, to not make a scene, I 'put my item into the plastic bag'. Once you 'put your item into the plastic bag', the scale attached to where the bags are kept acknowledges the change in the weight of the bag. Which may have seemed like a genius idea to the geniuses who came up with this genius machine, except for it doesn't consider items that weigh less than 17 pounds because they don't weigh enough to effect the scale. For example, I bought some eye shadow and 'put my item into the plastic bag'. Then the lady said 'put your item into the plastic bag'. And I said 'I did put my item into the plastic bag'. This went on for about 12 minutes until I figured out how to get past this minor dilemma and started 'slamming my items into the plastic bag.' Worst CVS ever.

Then this lovely black woman who worked at the front desk at this business building I happened to walk into complimented me on the scarves I was wearing. She said 'That's fancy girl'. And I said 'Well, I'm pretty fancy'.

And I'm pretty sure I said the word 'gianormous' during my interview.