Choice places to Eat
I discovered a new place to eat the other day so I thought I'd write down a list of my favourite spots to eat in Vancouver. Here are my top five, starting with the most recently discovered:
Slim'z - in Kits on West Broadway, I'm not sure the exact address - I've only been here once and I would like to go again. The pulled pork sandwich was great, so were the fries and the coleslaw. I want to go back and tried the smoked beef brisket.
Jameson's - Newport Village, Port Moody
The Stone Grill - Under the Granville Street bridge, Vancouver - You get to cook all your food on this blazing hot stone in front of you.
Sophie's Cosmic Cafe - West 4th, Kitsilano - the best burgers I've ever had in a restaurant.
Hazelmere Country Club - Hazelmere Golf Course, Surrey
Some out of town favourites:
Johnny Rocket's - Seattle, Washington - good burgers, almost as good as Sophie's.
Norma's - Seaside, Oregon - excellent clam chowder, and the breaded (or battered) halibut is great.
If only they fit
I am always so disappointed when I find a pair of shoes I like and they don't fit right, thus preventing me from buying and wearing them. The latest instance was with the
shoes below. They are quite unique so of course I wanted them, and they were the right price. But the arch was misplaced and hit me right infront of the heel instead of where they were supposed in the arch of my foot.
I expressed my disappointment to the sales guy, and he told me how "sick" the shoes were and how all the sales people in the store got a pair as soon as they came in. I guess I'll just have to keep looking.
The Backwoods Revisited
Four days after Chris and I went up to Stave Lake in his Escort, he went out and bought a 1990 Pathgrinder. So after a quick stop in Abbotsford this past weekend, we went back out to Stave to try them out. Stave looked a little different this time, more like a flat with a bunch of tree stumps.
We drove around a bit and then decided to head back home when we encountered a little bit of mud...
Despite our best efforts of trying to bounce the vehicle out of the hole, we were stuck. We wandered over to where a couple other trucks were, and found a Bronco mired up to its exhaust in a giant mud puddle. We were hoping that after he was pulled out, the guy who pulled him out could pull us out. But that Bronco was stuck and wouldn't come out. The guy trying to pull him out didn't really want to come pull us out since his clutch was smoking a bit, so we thought we'd go find some one else. As we were walking back, the guy changed his mind and came to help, the guy in the Bronco came too - without his truck. Fortunately Chris had brought a chain, so they hooked that up while I was taking photos, but the ground was too muddy and the pulling truck just spun its wheels and the pathfinder didn't budge.
The guy in the truck decided that there was no way he could pull out Chris' truck so he went to drive away - with a lot of difficulty. He walked back to help and we came up with a plan to put a log under the front tire and then three of us lift up the front of Chris' truck and push it backwards while Chris tried backing up. After a little bit we could feel the truck start to move very slightly so we lifted and pushed harder and Chris was free. Then he just gunned it to get back to solid ground. Unfortunately you can't photograph things and move a truck at the same time because I would love to have some pictures of us moving the truck out of the mud.
After that little incident with the mud, Chris has decided to stick with trail driving and leave the mud flats to the big boys.
