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…
Category: Travel
Field trips and journeys, no matter how far
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,…
Flat Katherine visits the MEC, Deer Lake Park and finds an amazing craft centre!
Today Tamar (my sister) and I tested out my new GPS (Oregon 450) and found a few geocaches. We explored Central Park in Burnaby again and the new unit worked wonderfully. It took a little getting used to, but the features are easy-to-use and proving very, very handy. We took a few photos, too: There…
Vancouver!
The leaves are just turning… Flat Katherine and I arrived in Vancouver yesterday and were utterly exhausted. This is one mighty big country and travelling from one side to the other is a full day of travel. Once we got her, we met my sister Tamar (who is due to have that baby today and…
Introducing “Flat Katherine”
Meet Flat Katherine: Flat Katherine is a variant on “Flat Stanley (wikipedia link)”, which I first encountered as an idea during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. The Flat Stanley Project is a literacy endeavour based on the books about Stanley Lambchop, a flattened child who can go virtually anywhere because of his two-dimensionality. During the Olympics,…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 