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| View from Chamir Chalet |
This trip wasn't really a planned holiday. It was more of an 'escape to save my sanity' adventure. The Edmonton honeymoon period is over; life is getting boring and mundane. I have run out of intellectual Vampire novels to read. Cleaning while watching The View is more glib than convincing. One day, I found myself in Chapters scouring the self-help section flipping through novels titled 'How to live a Happy life' so I decided to book a trip to Vancouver while Chad went to San Antonio for a conference. Lucky that I did. It gave me a chance to collect and rebuild my sense of self, spend copious amounts of time inhaling the sea water and eating good Dim Sum and Japanese food whilst reflecting on my time spent in Edmonton so far.The more I leave a place, the more I can put my time there into perspective, to see what I have and what I haven't done yet. I came back more excited about living on the Prairies and experiencing a different Canada.
But before we get to enjoying the snowy prairies, Vancouver treated me to its final days of Autumn - blue sky days and colourful leaves, spectacular 'pee your pants' sunsets and sunrises. Staying at the Chamir Chalet overlooking the water and mountains gave me ample opportunity to run on the sea wall and to reconnect with moisture. My Edmonton dust cough dried up. My hang-nails disappeared. JJ Bean and Intelligensia coffee kept me lubricated and energized. Fig and blue cheese martini's from Chambar revitalized and soothed my weary soul. Kirin Dim Sum and Shiro Japanese satiated my hunger.
I took almost 1000 pictures in 4 days. It was a good trip. Here are the some of the photos I took. The rest are posted to Flickr. Enjoy!
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| Enjoying the Peruvian Pan Flute |
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| Fig and Blue Cheese Martini, Chambar |
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| Tapas plates from Chambar |
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| Sanity Restoring Evening at Chambar |
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| Lighthouse Park |
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| Jenniwa from Suweto |
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| Lighthouse Park: Taken by Tamir |
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| Oh Myles. |
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| Yay for Autumn! |
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| Building Inukshuks |
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| False Creek |
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| Cool art piece at Kit's Point. It is meant to be frozen water. |
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| A choice moment in time. |
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| My attempt at an impressionist piece. |
2 comments:
You are truly an artist! I love all of your shots & it's making me excited for our visit to Vancouver soon. My sister-in-law just moved from Kits to North Van and is trying to get used to Suburbia! I'm glad you were able to have an escape from the mundane....I have the opposite problem at my house......hoping to find a way to extend my days while still getting 6-7 hours of sleep at night. Best....Charmaine
The pics are fabulous - love the colours and composition. We want more!
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