They All Wanted Something

So Thursday saw another one of Debbie and I's weekly days out. This week we took a trip to Jericho Beach which is sort of near UBC. We were originally going to go to the Museum of Anthropology if the weather wasn't nice but that's closed for renovation until March so we decided just to go to Jericho Beach anyway and deal with the weather. Afterall, we are Scottish, if we got into the habit of waiting for nice weather we'd never get anything done.
It took a bit of an adventure to get there but we got there in the end and it was cloudy as heck and freezing cold. We're hardy critters though and we persevered to walk along it for a while.

Me with the polar bear of Casa Blanca

Debbie with the polar bear of Casa Blanca

Me on Jericho Beach

Debbie on Jericho Beach

Jericho Beach

Jericho Beach looking the other way

A shell that looked like an owl

North Van in the stratocumulus

A fancy house that would look in place on The Sims

Quad bike tracks on Jericho Beach

The Vancouver skyline, feint in the distance

After our body temperature dropped significantly we walked up to 4th Avenue and got a bus along to Sophie's Cosmic Cafe which is this nice little diner place. I had a pretty fantastic hamburger and Debbie had potentially the best veggie burger she's ever had (although Tesco's Mexican beanburgers are good too, I'm informed). We then decided we were tough enough to go for desert too; Debbie ordered some apple pie and I had the chocolate cheesecake and we sorta shared. Debbie's pie looked like a medieval banquet. My cheesecake was pretty awesome and a manageable amount too.

The decor in Sophie's Cosmic Cafe. I want the tea sign.

The rest of the cafe

Debbie with her epic pie

Me with my cheesecake

Once we were full of food we went to our usual Thursday night hang out of Cafe Deux Soleils to watch the open mic night. The standard's always pretty high but I still maintain the first night we went was the best night. It's kinda nice to see people who do it every week. Maybe one day we'll even get around to speaking to some of them! Ha unlikely. Don't think we're ready to give up our creepy/enigmatic air just yet. Jeff from my work joined us after he'd finished tea-ing it up and some baaaaad photos resulted...

Strike a pose! (My default happy photoface)

We pretty much just went home after the acts finished. In fact, that's exactly what we did. And I can't wait until the roadworks are finished on Broadway and Cambie because they're causing lotsa disruption to my journeys.

Apart from that I haven't really been doing anything of note. Today I had another day off but because I'm usually working Saturdays I didn't really know what to do with myself. I ended up sleeping pretty late then taking a trip downtown to meet Debbie to chum her to her work. Then I bumped into Jeff in a coffee shop where I alighted in order to write a list of the things I needed to do and buy. Recharged with some caffeine and then did some food shopping for an unusually well-planned (so it seems thus far) week of meals. Cooked a meal of chicken and potatoes tonight; coated the chicken in paprika and honey and fried it and boiled some new potatoes then mixed them with some olive oil, lemon juice and rosemary and grilled them for a few minutes. Turned out better than expected and was pretty damn good- another one for the recipe book methinks! Now I think I'll go bathe and read and take it easy. I'm planning on making some soup and baking some bread tomorrow and having a proper Sunday of drinking plenty of tea and reading plenty of words. I wish I could find a shop that sells The Observer. I miss it. The 7 Eleven sells The Guardian but it's just the actual newspaper, it doesn't have any of the extra sections or supplements or anything though. I think Debbie wants to go and get bus passes tomorrow since it works out to be cheaper than buying the books of tickets if you're getting the bus as much as we do. And you can only buy bus passes in the first 3 days of the month too because they're just valid for the month in which you buy it.

Wow, wasn't that last little ditty mighty boring for anyone who doesn't care about the Vancouver transit system. Sorry.

Think I'll off and wash now.