Easter Weekend

Since Pam had Fri­day off (which makes it Good indeed, in my book, at least), we took a lit­tle trip some 25 blocks or so south of us to the Van­Dusen Botan­i­cal Gar­den, where we met up with Bob, whose com­ments can be found on this blog, and his post­ings on Mov­ing to Van­cou­ver. It was a beau­ti­ful day, and warm enough to take our jack­ets off while we all snapped pic­tures of the sur­pris­ingly peace­ful refuge in the midst of the city (or at least, one of it’s closer res­i­den­tial areas). By the time we had walked through most of it, I was starv­ing, so we had a big lunch at the Mem­phis Grill (Pulled-Pork sand­wiches, cole slaw, beans and beer — Mmm, Tasty!)
The rest of the week­end was fairly unevent­ful. We went to one of MJ Ankenman’s Open Houses (a very sophis­ti­cated condo that had a nice view, and an even bet­ter loca­tion: near Smithe and Thur­low, 13^th floor). Pam did some shop­ping and we both did some other errands. As the week­end pro­gressed, the weather got darker, wet­ter and colder, but those few hours spent in the sun­shine on Fri­day made all of the dif­fer­ence.
In the mean­time, we were cheered that the Canucks clinched their divi­sion by beat­ing the San Jose Sharks, so they’ll be in the play­offs. Is it pos­si­ble to imag­ine a Stan­ley Cup in this city again? And not a replica either, which their web site shows you how to make…