multi-day vancouver and victoria canada recap.
september 22nd, 2007
xinlei came today so i picked her up and we headed straight to canada cause we’re fucking hardcore, biatch.
the border crossing going INTO canada. when you’re going into canada it’s all fucking nice and pretty — coming into the united states, however, it looks like a piece of shit.
RICHMOND NIGHT MARKET
richmond night market. this is funny, but only if you think about it. a little. just read the text and laugh. they did get “ray ban” right, though, i guess, so i suppose i should be impressed?
hahahaha. so photoshopped are their tattoos.
feed… my… tummy!?
some terrible dog show / karaoke contest / badness abound.
nothing like a sea of bras to make you feel right at home. richmond night market, you think of everything.
HOOKAH, OR AS THEY CALLED IT, SHEE-SHA
hookah with random hostel people. say hello to random german man with camera. i like german english accents, for some reason. this korean chick named molly met us at the hostel and she was drunk and we were drunk and she was like, “YAY! THERE ARE NO ASIANS HERE BUT YOU GUYS!” so she invited us along but we didn’t talk to her the whole time rofls. her friends were cool, though — they were also people staying at the hostel long-term.
SAMESUN BACKPACKER LODGE
the hostel we stay at every time we go to vancouver, pretty much. we usually always get brazil on our door, but unfortunately, this time we got a fucking hockey flag. not even a real country flag. a hockey flag. i took a photo of brazil’s flag before, but hockey flag was just so lame i didn’t even take a pic.
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september 23rd, 2007
vancouver has a lot of homelessness. like… a lot. this entire street was like, homeless people. at least, it seemed that way.
CHINATOWN
gotta love chinatown. it’s my gecko on a stick!
this is honestly, like the funniest thing ever.
ALL HAIL THE SHABUSEN!
STANLEY PARK
so ever since going to japan and biking around tokyo i’ve been obsessed with biking in foreign cities, so… i made lenny and xinlei rent bikes with me to bike around stanley park. we didn’t have much time to do it but it was pretty much the best time of their lives, they said. well not really but close to it!!!!!!!!!!! BIKE IN FOREIGN CITIES. YOU WON’T LOOK FLATTERING BUT THAT’S OKAY.
this guy, like the guy in fremont, stacks rocks. he’s awesome. unlike the guy in fremont, though, he’s not very talkative. i tried to make conversation and got one line out of him, but that’s about it.
THE VICTORIAN HOTEL
new place to stay for night #2! the victorian hotel. we had originally opted for a cheaper room but the guy gave us a free upgrade so we got a giant king-sized bed!! i’ve never been in a king-sized bed. anyway, lenny and i checked in and xinlei snuck in. we’re ghetto.
september 24th, 2007
more chinese marketness. how lame.
so i’m like, obsessed with these winnie the pooh toys. i think i satisfied my lust for it for life on this trip though. i kept saying, “ANYTHING BUT PIGLET” and i would get piglet every time. godamnit. like, i started saying it jokingly thinking it didn’t matter — certainly i am not cursed — but quite the contrary. i am cursed.
FERRY TO VICTORIA
it was fucking expensive. do *not* take your car on the fucking ferry. seriously.
VICTORIA
darth vader of the violins. he even played the like, march song. i dunno what it’s called.
i should mention that in addition to spending made loads of money buying a ferry / car ticket to victoria from vancouver, uhhhhhhhhhh we were just going to take the ferry all the way back to seattle from victoria but we just missed it. by like, five minutes. all because i said, “what’s the worse that could happen?” sooooo. we had to rush to take the last ferry from victoria back to vancouver (might i add that whereas the way from vancouver to victoria was a normal ferry, the one from victoria to vancouver was a fucking luxury ferry. it was literally like an airport. two arcade rooms and one GIFT STORE. i shit you not. ridiculous!!!!). anyway, once we got to vancouver i had to drive the two hours back down whereas everyone else got to sleep… woohoo! awesome! *_*