Where has the Tim gone?
Wow, I haven't posted in a month? Must mean that I've been pretty busy here. Yikes!
This is pic heavy I've put it behind a cut
Major issues of note:
1) The Canada Line (Skytrain) officially opened, and I now have a new, quicker commute to and from work every day. Sweet.
2) Sophie and I travelled to Victoria for the weekend of Sept 4-6 (Labour Day weekend) just for something to do as our last hurrah for summer. It was fun - we stayed at the Quality Inn right downtown, took in the night life, went zip-lining in Sooke, saw the sights (the inner harbour, the Legislature, Mt. Douglas, Mile Zero, and all the crazy street life).
The Legislature, the "Capital building" of British Columbia.
Zip-lining in Sooke.
Victoria's inner harbour, with the Empress Hotel in the background.
Night time shot of the inner harbour.
Mile Zero of the 5,000 km Trans Canada Highway is in Victoria, BC.
Ferries passing each other through Active Pass, the mid-point on the main route between Vancouver and Victoria.
We now have a "son" that we purchased at the Bay. His name is Quatchi.
Quatchi, welcoming the world to Vancouver in 2010.
3) I turned 30! Yes, yes I did - on Sept 6 in Victoria, in fact. Sophie was nice enough to join me on the ferry ride home and hang with my friends and family as we continued to celebrate. She returned to Kelowna the following morning.
4) More and more work - but summer weather never ended, even after summer officially ended. It's still mildly hot and sunny right now!
5) Sophie had a long weekend off so from Sept 18-20 we drove down to Seattle for the weekend, a city I'd never really fully checked out. It was rad because I first found a pretty sweet deal on a hotel (in Bellevue, about 10 minutes away) but once we got there, we were upgraded FOR NO REASON to a 2-floor suite. That was pretty awesome, I gotta say. It was also nice how they still managed to force us into one king (instead of two queens as we originally asked) - so yes, good times were had. I want a king at home now...all I have is a double!
More on Seattle...damn, Bellevue is one clean town. Seattle's downtown is huge but kinda grimy (at least in the parts I saw, like Pioneer Square) whereas Bellevue doesn't look more than 10 years old. It's no wonder, since Microsoft pretty much owns the town; it's like they virus-scanned the entire city before we showed up. Nice.
There was a great little irish pub we frequented both nights we were there. Other things Sophie and I did were see the Space Needle, ride the Monorail, do some shopping (downtown, Pike Place Market, and at the outlet malls), and go to the Mariners/Yankee game, which was pretty awesome.
Quatchi came on our adventures and featured prominently in many of our pictures. At the baseball game he was famous too - all these girls charged us because they noticed I was holding him, and they were part of VANOC somehow.
The Seattle skyline with the Space Needle in the forefront.
The monorail docking in downtown Seattle.
Pike Place Market
Safeco Field, home field of the Seattle Mariners. I sat right by the left field foul pole for this game.
The Peace Arch, the piece de resistance of Peace Arch Park, a nationally-neutral international park that straddles the Canada/US border.
6) So that's it so far...but Vegas planning is on the move, so I've something else that's awesome to look forward to now. :D
This is pic heavy I've put it behind a cut
Major issues of note:
1) The Canada Line (Skytrain) officially opened, and I now have a new, quicker commute to and from work every day. Sweet.
2) Sophie and I travelled to Victoria for the weekend of Sept 4-6 (Labour Day weekend) just for something to do as our last hurrah for summer. It was fun - we stayed at the Quality Inn right downtown, took in the night life, went zip-lining in Sooke, saw the sights (the inner harbour, the Legislature, Mt. Douglas, Mile Zero, and all the crazy street life).
The Legislature, the "Capital building" of British Columbia.
Zip-lining in Sooke.
Victoria's inner harbour, with the Empress Hotel in the background.
Night time shot of the inner harbour.
Mile Zero of the 5,000 km Trans Canada Highway is in Victoria, BC.
Ferries passing each other through Active Pass, the mid-point on the main route between Vancouver and Victoria.
We now have a "son" that we purchased at the Bay. His name is Quatchi.
Quatchi, welcoming the world to Vancouver in 2010.
3) I turned 30! Yes, yes I did - on Sept 6 in Victoria, in fact. Sophie was nice enough to join me on the ferry ride home and hang with my friends and family as we continued to celebrate. She returned to Kelowna the following morning.
4) More and more work - but summer weather never ended, even after summer officially ended. It's still mildly hot and sunny right now!
5) Sophie had a long weekend off so from Sept 18-20 we drove down to Seattle for the weekend, a city I'd never really fully checked out. It was rad because I first found a pretty sweet deal on a hotel (in Bellevue, about 10 minutes away) but once we got there, we were upgraded FOR NO REASON to a 2-floor suite. That was pretty awesome, I gotta say. It was also nice how they still managed to force us into one king (instead of two queens as we originally asked) - so yes, good times were had. I want a king at home now...all I have is a double!
More on Seattle...damn, Bellevue is one clean town. Seattle's downtown is huge but kinda grimy (at least in the parts I saw, like Pioneer Square) whereas Bellevue doesn't look more than 10 years old. It's no wonder, since Microsoft pretty much owns the town; it's like they virus-scanned the entire city before we showed up. Nice.
There was a great little irish pub we frequented both nights we were there. Other things Sophie and I did were see the Space Needle, ride the Monorail, do some shopping (downtown, Pike Place Market, and at the outlet malls), and go to the Mariners/Yankee game, which was pretty awesome.
Quatchi came on our adventures and featured prominently in many of our pictures. At the baseball game he was famous too - all these girls charged us because they noticed I was holding him, and they were part of VANOC somehow.
The Seattle skyline with the Space Needle in the forefront.
The monorail docking in downtown Seattle.
Pike Place Market
Safeco Field, home field of the Seattle Mariners. I sat right by the left field foul pole for this game.
The Peace Arch, the piece de resistance of Peace Arch Park, a nationally-neutral international park that straddles the Canada/US border.
6) So that's it so far...but Vegas planning is on the move, so I've something else that's awesome to look forward to now. :D