travelogue babble - Vancouver
Dec. 12th, 2011 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salixbabylon1) It's cold up here. Like, knee socks and hat and scarf and gloves are NOT OPTIONAL. WTF, man? I'm from California, this is weird.
2) I saw a pond in a Chinese garden today that was ICE. Thin ice, but still. Never have I seen such a thing.
3) Yummy dim sum. However, I think Chinatowns are all kind of the same no matter what city they are in. Which makes sense, as they are a bit of home-away-from-home for the immigrants. The gate was pretty, although I forgot to take a picture. Need to get better at that.
4) One hat I brought was trashed (20 years oldish, lots of wear and washing), the other hat was too big and kept falling down to my nose, so I bought a hat today. Dithering between two, husband pushed for the furry one. Later he confessed it made him want to quote COmmunity - "I have the weirdest boner right now" - not quite, but a confusing twitch down below. After 18 years together, I'll take any twitch that comes by. Furry hat FTW!
5) Next December vacation, we are going somewhere WARM. Jamaica, maybe, with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladykatiewench. :)
5) We saw beluga whales! And a narwhal model (only one of two n-mammals), and an anaconda, and a sloth, and frogs, and electric eels, and marmosets, and huge butterflies, and giant sea tutrles, and and and. I ♥ aquariums. We forgot to get postcards or gifts though, so we have to go back tomrorow. (There was also an info person at the electric eels who sounded exactly likebitofaspaz when she gets excited.)
6) Tomorrow = ferry ride to Victoria. I have a stupid love for ferry rides.
7) People/men in Canada are so polite, I can't tell if they're flirting with me or not. Either way, it's lovely.
8) OMG smoked salmon! so much yum! :)
2) I saw a pond in a Chinese garden today that was ICE. Thin ice, but still. Never have I seen such a thing.
3) Yummy dim sum. However, I think Chinatowns are all kind of the same no matter what city they are in. Which makes sense, as they are a bit of home-away-from-home for the immigrants. The gate was pretty, although I forgot to take a picture. Need to get better at that.
4) One hat I brought was trashed (20 years oldish, lots of wear and washing), the other hat was too big and kept falling down to my nose, so I bought a hat today. Dithering between two, husband pushed for the furry one. Later he confessed it made him want to quote COmmunity - "I have the weirdest boner right now" - not quite, but a confusing twitch down below. After 18 years together, I'll take any twitch that comes by. Furry hat FTW!
5) Next December vacation, we are going somewhere WARM. Jamaica, maybe, with
ladykatiewench. :)5) We saw beluga whales! And a narwhal model (only one of two n-mammals), and an anaconda, and a sloth, and frogs, and electric eels, and marmosets, and huge butterflies, and giant sea tutrles, and and and. I ♥ aquariums. We forgot to get postcards or gifts though, so we have to go back tomrorow. (There was also an info person at the electric eels who sounded exactly like
bitofaspaz when she gets excited.)6) Tomorrow = ferry ride to Victoria. I have a stupid love for ferry rides.
7) People/men in Canada are so polite, I can't tell if they're flirting with me or not. Either way, it's lovely.
8) OMG smoked salmon! so much yum! :)
