Yesterday was one million degrees, and also Val’s day off, so we decided to head to the beach. I asked her if she wanted easy to get to but obnoxious, or hard to get to and less obnoxious, and she didn’t care so we went with easy to get to.
I met her at Burrard station, and she discovered this weird parking meter that is not a parking meter at all but actually a donation meter. This explains why it was not near a street at all.
We went to Kits beach and it was really not that awful because we walked far down to where most people are too lazy to walk to.
Valerie has a cute bathing suit from the internet and mostly I am just scary but it was too hot and I didn’t care. We swam in the ocean and it was delightful until someone’s chocolate lab showed up and left a chocolate surprise in the ocean when their owner wasn’t watching. By the way: if you’re going to let your dog off it’s leash at a NON-off leash park, you should probably watch it pretty carefully. And yes I know everything pees and poos in the ocean but I don’t want to watch it happen while I am actually in the ocean.
Otherwise it was a pretty successful beach adventure, except I reapplied sunblock three times and still burned my back.
The ice cream truck showed up and we talked about ice cream bear and got some. The guy lied to me and told me this was lemon flavour. I thought yellow would mean lemon but it was actually fruit punch, which, let’s be honest is just artificial flavour either way and basically tastes the same.
Some crows yelled at us and I asked them not to poo on us as we walked down the sidewalked and lamented the fact that we will never be rich enough to have a house by the beach.
This car made me giggle.
This truck made me jealous.
This sign/vehicle combo made me laugh.
And this little piggy walked all the way home along the blackberry bushes to check to make sure they are almost ready. Good news! Free berries are the best kind of berries.
oh man I ate a blackberry on my way home from the bus stop the other day because they looked so delicious, but no. Just don’t do it. They need another week or two.
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Tams Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 10:41 am
yeah dude, i know. i didn’t pick any. they need to be soft and falling off a bit first!
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we have a MASSIVE MASSIVE MASSIVE blackberry bush behind our house along the alley. i don’t know if it belongs to someone but since it’s technically a public road we stole them all year long last year and make loads of blackeberry crumble with custard.
there isn’t anything better than some good ol’ british C&C
that and it was free as awesome.
stupid council and their weedwhackers tore the whole thing out last fall. grrr’s
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Tams Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 10:42 am
yeah i’m not too sure about the, um, politics of picking random berries, but seriously they’re like weeds here and i feel that if they are not in a fenced area then i can have at ‘er.
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