penguin down

i love east vancouver

dave was here

well, dave just gave me another one of his visits, and i actually got to hang out with him alot this time!

i met up with dave and nicole thursday night for some drinks and food.
deandra and melissa met us there as well.
after that dave and i came back to my house where we proceeded to drink gin and watch highlander. (dont even get me started on that one..)

friday was a mega long day at work, and i definately dont need to talk about that.

saturday i got up and met dave downtown.
and here is our day!

we were taken in by the call for all you can eat
possibly one of the worse sushi meals ive had
nice looking place though..

the steam clock
everyone has a picture with it apparently..

dave wanted this big moose..
i couldnt have this i guess
(but i did buy smarties!)
from this cute little spot
a little scottish woman chatted with us for a while
telling us tales of her family taking the boat to canada
gas town
free shipping!
how can you say no?
i mean really...
guardian of the sun yat-sen garden

said garden!
(i come here with my mom every year too)
some turtles hangin out, checkin out the people
(actually, looking for food is more like it)dave!

a lotus type flower

an alien type plant!

we are horses

this is fountain in a park that i have never been in before

very odd
very 80s...

china town cherry blossoms!

yeah....

this really needs no explanation..

lizards on a stick!

yeah you heard me, lizards on a stick.
i have never seen this before, and ive wandered china town a few times
dare ya to eat one..

this was dinner!

dave ate hardboiled eggs, covered with sausage meat,
and then deep fried
it was actually pretty tasty.

more drinks were had, and hang outs. then bed.
all in all, a pretty good (and pricey!) weekend.

i also bought a new hoodie!
$75 on sale for $30!
woot!

aquarium

i never did post these pics.
went to the vancouver aquarium for a friends daughters first bday.
it was pretty fun actually.

it was right before the crazy night out with inappropriate coworker, if you read this blog enough to recall that one..

anywho, here ya go!

who doesnt love sloths?

pretty little blue guy

the bday girl and her dad

a washed out bald eagle

heather and i, trapped and worried

elliott, jeremy and dave,
not as worried as heather and i

huge octopus
kinda gross lookin in this pic..

jellyfish
so pretty

alexis and her new sock monkey!

mornings

i like to walk to work
or at the very least, to the train station..

ill take a shot here and there if i remember to
(read: not too lazy to)

for now, here are two from last week.
its finally staying nice out all day!

which is it?
negative or not?

more cherry blossoms!

spring in vancouver

the cherry blossoms are out!
yes! here too amalie!
not just japan...

some shots from some walks home

grandmas house

more catchup. *sigh*
just some shots from my grandmas house.

they have had this carved cabinet for ages,
and this 'princess' has always bothered me...

some handsome devils,
my dad and uncle in years gone by..

then it was on to african violets

and a seagull statue!

totoro!

amalie has just posted pictures from the ghibli museum in japan.
its all tortoro, all the time.
this post is basically for her, but also, for my love of totoro.
and magnets.

ktown

well, its been a while. i know i know. bad corey.
so lets get some blogging done!

im in kelowna right now, staying with my grandma.
i dont know what it is about being here, but i get so lazy.
literally, all we do is eat and sleep.
here is our day today:

grandma got up at 630 and went for coffee
i got up at 730
ate breakfast at the table
read our books until around 1030
went down to the in house library that my grandma looks after
put some books away
came back up to read some more until 1130
lunch
back upstairs to read and nap (i napped anyways)
went for a walk for 45 min around 330
watch tv until 530
go down and eat dinner
watch tv until
go to bed

repeat

party time right?
its super relaxing for sure, but i almost feel lethargic here.
ah well, i love visiting!

ill take some pics tomorrow

in the meantime, enjoy some backlog-blogging.

4 new blogs below!

finally! arm 2

ok, this took ages to post
and i need to take better pics, but here you go for now.

first three hours done.
still have to outline more dinos and meteors on the back of my arm.

steve is the man.

what more should i say?

house partay

last weekend was out of control

it started out nice enough.
finished work on friday, had a couple glasses of wine and then headed home
after dropping off my work bag, i headed out to bo kong.
bo kong is a delicious buddish chinese vegetarian restaurant
heather mclean and fam was in town, so a group of us went out to eat
sadly, no pics of either people or food.
but it was good. believe me.

saturday i got up and headed down to the aquarium with taryn for alexis' first birthday.
alexis is dave and jen's daughter.
wandered the aquarium for a bit, checking out the sloth, aligators and octopus.
and dont forget the jellyfish!

afterwards, i came home for a nap and then went out to a house party/birthday party at coralie's.
i work with her, and as much as i love her, i am not partying with work folk anymore.
deandra and karina accompanied me, and we did have a blast.
but... yikers.
most of the guys there were from coralie's team, and not mine, so that was okay, but there was one guy from my team.
and lets talk about wildly innappropriate things being said to me.
actually, lets not.
lets just say that it was a little uncomfortable on monday, but i think we are okay now.
yay booze?

(coralie, me, deandra and karina)












sunday was breakfast at the usual spot again, and then another sunday of sitting on my couch watching the big screen.
some episodes of extras, a couple of entourage, and then just good ol tv