2 posts tagged “vancouver”

We hiked the Millstream Trail in West Vancouver (6K & about 1.5 hours return, mostly flat and wide).  It ends at a nice viewpoint on Cypress Mountain.  Can you see the brown blanket of smog hanging over the city?  I had no idea that was there!  The woods were beautiful with the light snow.  There weren't many birds around, though, much to CP's disappointment.

This "blog-thing" (to quote a friend of mine) exists to keep family and friends (the face-to-face kind and the kind in the computer) up to date on some of the adventures of the B. family, BLB (that's me) and Captain Poetry (that's my husband).  We moved to Vancouver three and a half weeks ago so I could start my graduate degree in creative writing.  Captain Poetry is taking some courses, too, and working on MA applications for the 2007-2008 year.  We live in East Vancouver, in the Commercial Drive area, and commute to campus, which takes about an hour each way on the express bus.  We're still very much settling in, but we've found time to go out for Turkish, Ethiopian, Mexican, and Thai food, as well as dim sum in Richmond with my dad and stepmom, bad reggae and beer (called the Black Plague!) with Jeff, Rachel, and Shae, a bicycle trip to Granville Island and Kitsilano along the shores of False Creek, cinnamon buns from my sister's favorite spot, several $2.99 breakfasts at Bon's and pizzas from Uncle Fatih's, dinner with newlywed Jonathan and Sarah, a few pints at various campus pubs, a failed Air Care test, a literary reading, two stints of volunteering for the literary magazine my university publishes, a visit with Captain Poetry's parents and sister, catching up on the last seasons of Lost and Veronica Mars, signing up for a yoga class, and, of course, the obligatory university student IKEA run (we were well-behaved and only bought rag rugs and houseplants--somehow we magically resisted the siren-call of the jumbo-sized bags of tea lights, which is good, since we still have about ten zillion from every other IKEA trip ever--but we did succumb to the $0.50 IKEA hot dogs).  Oh, and we both got work study jobs.  Captain Poetry is working in the library and I'm doing a newsletter and some publicity work for my department.  No wonder we're wiped! 

Here are some photos of the northern end of our neighborhood that I took on a walk to Value Village.