Easter Weekend

Stone Arch at the VanDusen Botanical Garden
Ruddy Red RhododendronsVanDusen Meadow

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, 13th 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…

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By David Drucker | Filed in Friends, Holidays, Vancouver | April 8, 2007 7:21 pm

9 Comments to “Easter Weekend”

  1. Avatarisabella mori
    Posted: Apr 8th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
    1

    hey, nice to meet pam and ivan!
  2. AvatarWest End Bound
    Posted: Apr 8th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
    2

    Love the fram­ing on the pic, David … Good job!
  3. AvatarGene
    Posted: Apr 8th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
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    David I don’t know if it is pos­si­ble to imag­ine a Stan­ley Cup here again. Last time Van­cou­ver won it was in 1914–15. But of course you knew that.
  4. Avatarddrucker
    Posted: Apr 9th, 2007 at 9:02 am
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    Glad you liked that shot, Bob. Keep us up to date on your progress, although I’ll be able to check your blog as well.

    Gene, the Red Sox had not won the World Series since that period, and did so while we lived there (near the end of our sojourn, to be sure, but they did do it). So I can hope with­out it being a crazy dream.

    Actu­ally, it’s inter­est­ing that with that long a drought, you don’t hear of a ‘curse’ on the team the way peo­ple went on and on about one in Boston. Appar­ently, trad­ing Babe Ruth to the Yan­kees is the same as break­ing a mir­ror or walk­ing under a lad­der, etc.

    I just chock it up to the usual US dis­trust of logic and belief in magic and other non-scientific explanations.
  5. Avatarddrucker
    Posted: Apr 9th, 2007 at 9:11 am
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    Isabella — We can’t claim Ivan as our kitty. He belongs to Matt Mus­sel­man. We’ve done the occa­sional cat sit, and Ivan is a cute and lov­able pet. He’s a big, fat cat who thinks he’s a thin, small cat. The result is that if you sit down on a sofa, he’ll jump up on your lap and plant him­self there, even though he weighs a ton! He can move fast, though, and even seems to like it when Matt mas­sages his back pretty roughly.
  6. AvatarJonathon Narvey
    Posted: Apr 10th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
    6

    Those are really great pho­tos. I’d for­got­ten how beau­ti­ful the Van Dusen Gar­den was. Thanks for remind­ing me. I’ll have to stop by there again on a sun­nier day.
  7. AvatarJonathon Narvey
    Posted: Apr 11th, 2007 at 9:17 am
    7

    David, I just added your blog to my blogroll. For some rea­son, I thought it had already been on there for months. Cheers.
  8. Avatarddrucker
    Posted: Apr 11th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
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    Hi Jonathon — Thanks for the link. I get the impres­sion that the Van­Dusen is per­haps taken for granted by a lot of peo­ple, hav­ing not made the top list of local attrac­tions. I sup­pose it’s the fact that Van­cou­ver has so many beau­ti­ful parks and gar­dens that Van­Dusen, which would be a cen­ter­piece for some most other cities, doesn’t get the same attention.
  9. AvatarWest End Bound
    Posted: Apr 13th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
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    Glad you got such good responses on this post, David. I’m glad to have been able to share it with you and Pam. Since it was my first time at Van­Dusen, it’s reas­sur­ing to see that oth­ers are as impressed with it as we were .…
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