Vancouver Adventure pt 1

We left Victoria Saturday afternoon after a wonderful night of drinking and playing Clue with Annie, Oleh, friends of theirs and the new girl at my work, Katie. Saturday morning rolled around a little too early for my liking but Cory packed up while I made breakfast (Steak+eggs+hashbrowns) Annie and Oleh drove us to the ferry, and we were off!

Almost. When we got over to Van, we discovered the bus tickets we had were for a bus ON the ferry, and we were supposed to board it before we docked. Oops. We stuck around in a sketchy bus stop drinking spiced rum and played guitar to wait for the next one (roughly an hour later) To top it off, we were supposed to be staying with Bryce all weekend and he wasn't answering any of my calls. We made it downtown and Cory got a hold of his friend Pat, who very graciously offered up his place. While downtown we picked up some Gogol Bordello tickets, and then headed to Pat's to drop off our stuff and grab a bottle of cheap wine.

Took the skytrain back to the Vogue, this run-down looking theatre, where we saw Gogol play in the smallest venue we could have hoped for. They were incredible, they were tight, they had these two Asian chicks running around in cheerleading spandex playing drums and cymbals. For the first bit we were right in front of the fiddle player, my favourite, but we were tossed around in the little area up front during the show. At the end the band came forwards and shook everyones hand and I grabbed Eugene's arm! He also took a girl up front's hand and spat in it haha. And spit red wine over everyone. It was a big gypsy dance fest, loved it.

We met up with Pat, went out for beers and chicken burgers, and called it a night.

Day two! We woke up after sleeping on the floor and made our way downtown to see Granville Island. We ate some delicious curry at the market, and then made our way around the island. We checked out all the little artisan shops and bakeries and walked along the boardwalk. We met up with our friend Lucienne from the east coast, and went for a few beers with him at the Taproom - Granville Island's brewery pub. Their seasonal beer was pumpkin beer! Which was delicious.

During the afternoon we had met up with my cousin Michael, who offered us two free tickets to see the Canucks! The game started at 7 so we headed to the stadium. Our seats were awesome, the beer was tasty, the game went into not only overtime but a shoot out! And we won! And I got to see Brad Richards pussy out in said shoot out. It was a great time.