Vancouver- a pedestrian city
Back from my well deserved vacation to the west coast……
I had a great time! I ate sushi, survived the wedding, saw great friends, had some really great wine…it was just great! I have to say though, it has given me a new appreciation for the city I call home. Apart from the fact that it rained everyday but the day of my sister’s community party, and the wedding afternoon, I just find Vancouver not enough…there just isnt enough of anything there to keep you occupied. I have always said that Vancouver is like the Twinkie city, it has all the looks of a great place, but none of the substance to back it up. They have some of the best sushi that I have ever tasted, but apart from that, there is no wow factor. I could not live ( again ) with all that rain…it is just depressing! I also have re-affirmed that people in Vancouver are more like Albertans than they want to admit, and they are pretty anal retentive…I guess it is and will always have that cowboy, frontier mentality, which I find to be pretty much white and in bed by 10 pm. Dont get me wrong, it was a great trip, but I guess I thought that after being away for 12 years, and having an Olympics under their belt, Vancouver would have way more to offer. What it has to offer is a ton of condos gobbling up the view of the mountains over behind West and North Van, and a ton of rain. Ethnic food? Well perhaps the one Central American restaurant is enough to keep everyone happy, but Chinese and Japanese food is not ethnic-half the population is from Asia. I just found that it lacked texture, yeah there are all sorts of new hip neighbourhoods, but hip is a relative thing.
So next time I want to spend money to hang out with white people that pretty much lack texture, I will go to an all you can drink Cuban vacation, at least I won’t freeze my ass off and I will come home with more than just a digital camera.
