Vancouver

Finding a location to get married was harder than we had imagined. When we visited my mom in late August, location scouting was on the top of our to-do list, and it was something that needed to be checked off before we left by Labour Day. Here’s what we discovered in those two weeks: Van [...]

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March 09 2010

Gold Medal Hockey Game

As I alluded to earlier, we had tickets to the Gold Medal Hockey Game at the Winter Olympics, a.k.a. the event Canada had been waiting for, so we set out for a long but exhilarating weekend trip to Vancouver. Plane tickets between Toronto and Vancouver during the Olympics ranged from $600 – $1,000+ during the [...]

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February 04 2010

8 More Days!

…8 more days to pile the mountains around Vancouver with snow… …8 more days until I spend Friday night glued to the TV watching PVR’d daytime programming… …8 more days to clean out a certain clothing section at the Bay… Yep, 8 more days till the Winter Olympics in my hometown, Vancouver! I’m so stoked [...]

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Before I went off to university, I never gave Vancouver much thought other than associate the word “home” with the name. It was normal for my friends to discuss upcoming ski/snowboard trips to Whistler, Grouse, Sun Peaks, etc., and it was normal for us to share camping stories from Cultus, the Okanagan, and “the Island”. [...]

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