He Saw Stars But He Felt Empty
Laura and I went over to Vancouver on the weekend.
First she slept over friday night so that we could escape early saturday morning. Laura woke up sick though so we had to go get some healing potions first. I have no pharmacies or drug stores near me so we tried going to Lifestyles Market. Laura wanted her regular echinacea stuff anyways so it worked out well.
Lifestyles was closed until 9:00am though and we had to catch the bus at 9:00 so she couldn't get anything. Somehow she wasn't really that sick after that though so it wasn't too bad.
The bus and ferry and other bus all met up pretty well without a lot of waiting and we got into Vancouver at like 1:00 or something. We booked a room at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver using my discount. The discount was nut-bustingly-good which I didn't realize until we actually got there. We walked through the sweet revolving door, checked in, and went up to our room to drop off our stuff.
Oh man, I have such a bad memory. From there I think we just wandered around shopping and stuff. I got a shirt from some random basement store place that was pretty cool. Oh, I actually got two shirts but I thought one was a t-shirt and it turned out to be a three-quarter-length-t instead. I think I'll wear it anyways. It was only 5 bucks so it doesn't matter too much.
The whole time we were shopping we would get waves of being really tired, then not being tired, then being tired again. Eventually our being tired waves hit both of us at the same time and we went back to the hotel room to rest before dinner.
For dinner we went to this cool place that was Malaysian or something like that. It was pretty good.
I think that night we went to the pool and hot tub too.
The next day we woke up and went down to the buffet. It was delicious and I ate so much tasty bacon and french toast and hash browns. And I put so much syrup and cream cheese and berries on them. It was pretty much the whole thing I ate all day because I was so stuffed.
It was really nice on sunday so we decided to head to Kits beach for the day. Last time I went there was with Carly and we were the only people on the beach except for maybe like 3 others. On sunday it was jam-packed with people. We found a spot to sit though and just stayed there for a few hours. I got a bit burned but not too bad. We didn't do anything except talk and people watch because there were so many people. First we watched some couple try to fly a kite. Then some crazy old man who was yelling at his friend to take off his shirt. Then some chachi russian football player. Then some gay emo couple making out.
Eventually we got tired of looking at people and headed over to Granville Island. We hung out there and took the brewery tour. It's a micro-brewery though so it wasn't so much a tour as it was a talk. After the whole thing some dude was like, "So do you actually brew beer here?" I felt like shaking him because he missed the whole point of the last 30 minutes. Then we got to sample 4 different beers and since Laura and I hadn't eaten since breakfast and had been in the sun all day it got us both pretty buzzed.
Then we went back downtown to the hotel.
For dinner that night we went to the Hotel Waterfront, which is another hotel owned by Fairmont, because I get a discount there too. We weren't sure if I actually got the discount because we weren't staying with them but they gave it too us anyways. The waitress was nice and talked to us about when she travels with her band and uses the discounts and stuff, and was generally friendly but also professional and we left her a nice tip.
The next day we were planning on doing some shopping and going to the aquarium later. I wanted to go to Commercial Drive and Laura wanted to stay downtown so we went our respective ways. I met up with Carly and her boyfriend, Dave, first. Then we bussed over to Commercial Drive.
Basically, as soon as we got off the bus Laura called and told me her grandma had died. Her family had sort of been expecting it recently but she was still upset. So I said bye to Carly and took the SkyTrain back downtown and went to the hotel to meet Laura. We had to go back early so that her family could leave right away to be able to make it to the funeral on time because her grandma is in Saskatchewan or something.
So then we came home.
I was at the airport. I put my bag on the x-ray machine. I found out that my bag has cancer.
- Andrew
First she slept over friday night so that we could escape early saturday morning. Laura woke up sick though so we had to go get some healing potions first. I have no pharmacies or drug stores near me so we tried going to Lifestyles Market. Laura wanted her regular echinacea stuff anyways so it worked out well.
Lifestyles was closed until 9:00am though and we had to catch the bus at 9:00 so she couldn't get anything. Somehow she wasn't really that sick after that though so it wasn't too bad.
The bus and ferry and other bus all met up pretty well without a lot of waiting and we got into Vancouver at like 1:00 or something. We booked a room at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver using my discount. The discount was nut-bustingly-good which I didn't realize until we actually got there. We walked through the sweet revolving door, checked in, and went up to our room to drop off our stuff.
Oh man, I have such a bad memory. From there I think we just wandered around shopping and stuff. I got a shirt from some random basement store place that was pretty cool. Oh, I actually got two shirts but I thought one was a t-shirt and it turned out to be a three-quarter-length-t instead. I think I'll wear it anyways. It was only 5 bucks so it doesn't matter too much.
The whole time we were shopping we would get waves of being really tired, then not being tired, then being tired again. Eventually our being tired waves hit both of us at the same time and we went back to the hotel room to rest before dinner.
For dinner we went to this cool place that was Malaysian or something like that. It was pretty good.
I think that night we went to the pool and hot tub too.
The next day we woke up and went down to the buffet. It was delicious and I ate so much tasty bacon and french toast and hash browns. And I put so much syrup and cream cheese and berries on them. It was pretty much the whole thing I ate all day because I was so stuffed.
It was really nice on sunday so we decided to head to Kits beach for the day. Last time I went there was with Carly and we were the only people on the beach except for maybe like 3 others. On sunday it was jam-packed with people. We found a spot to sit though and just stayed there for a few hours. I got a bit burned but not too bad. We didn't do anything except talk and people watch because there were so many people. First we watched some couple try to fly a kite. Then some crazy old man who was yelling at his friend to take off his shirt. Then some chachi russian football player. Then some gay emo couple making out.
Eventually we got tired of looking at people and headed over to Granville Island. We hung out there and took the brewery tour. It's a micro-brewery though so it wasn't so much a tour as it was a talk. After the whole thing some dude was like, "So do you actually brew beer here?" I felt like shaking him because he missed the whole point of the last 30 minutes. Then we got to sample 4 different beers and since Laura and I hadn't eaten since breakfast and had been in the sun all day it got us both pretty buzzed.
Then we went back downtown to the hotel.
For dinner that night we went to the Hotel Waterfront, which is another hotel owned by Fairmont, because I get a discount there too. We weren't sure if I actually got the discount because we weren't staying with them but they gave it too us anyways. The waitress was nice and talked to us about when she travels with her band and uses the discounts and stuff, and was generally friendly but also professional and we left her a nice tip.
The next day we were planning on doing some shopping and going to the aquarium later. I wanted to go to Commercial Drive and Laura wanted to stay downtown so we went our respective ways. I met up with Carly and her boyfriend, Dave, first. Then we bussed over to Commercial Drive.
Basically, as soon as we got off the bus Laura called and told me her grandma had died. Her family had sort of been expecting it recently but she was still upset. So I said bye to Carly and took the SkyTrain back downtown and went to the hotel to meet Laura. We had to go back early so that her family could leave right away to be able to make it to the funeral on time because her grandma is in Saskatchewan or something.
So then we came home.
I was at the airport. I put my bag on the x-ray machine. I found out that my bag has cancer.
- Andrew