Flat Katherine and the Chocolate Factory

Yesterday, while Tamar was getting settled at the hospital and things were more in the waiting than participating stages, Flat Katherine and I went a-wandering and found Charlie’s Chocolate Factory. Now there was no way that I would have been allowed to walk right on past that one! We ventured inside and found a really neat store, filled with…

Sometimes it rains in Vancouver

It promised to be a wet old day in Vancouver today, so I packed accordingly, determined not to let the over-saturated atmosphere impede my explorations in any way. At daybreak, I headed back to Granville Island to bag the few geocaches that I had missed the day before. I spotted a mermaid during my travels:…

Granville Island

Today, Tamar (sister), Adam (brother-in-law) and I headed down to Granville Island for a wander and see. I quite surprised at the crowds on a Sunday morning! Granville Island did not disappoint! Flat Katherine spotted a pretty cool mechanised model to do with cement-making right away: The we found a totem pole maker’s shop. It was,…

Burnaby Lake with Flat Katherine

Today Flat Katherine and I went geocaching around Burnaby Lake. Along the way, Flat Katherine stopped to play with the fishies on the fence. In Burnaby, the chain link fences of parks and playgrounds are often decorated with fish, birds, people playing and the like. It’s a very neat art project and makes the playgrounds…

Flat K is a little fishy

Flat Katherine and I went to the supermarket to get some groceries today and swung by the meat section. In Newfoundland, it’s pretty common to see live lobsters in tanks at supermarkets. Rarely do we see rainbow trout, however. In Vancouver, the abundance of folks eating raw fish gives way to large tanks of live,…