Sunshine & Showers.

I've pretty much been working this week but on Wednesday Debbie and I decided to get up early(ish) and head over to UBC to see the Beijing Performance Photography exhibition that we've been meaning to go to for ages. So I made a packed lunch and a packed dinner (as I was going straight to work afterwards) and we trotted off to get the use of our buspasses. It's been really beautiful weather lately which makes everything a lot nicer, I think.
When we got off the bus we weren't really sure where we were going and Debbie got all male about it and so started the "trust me, it's this way"-ing. We got there without too much detouring and we got to see the $2 million houses they're building so it wasn't that bad.
The view was pretty fantastic too (probably why the houses are $2 million!)

View of the bay and Stanley Park from UBC

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, where the exhibition was

Inside the building

A photo of Debbie taking a photo of a photo...

One of the photographs

I liked this photograph

Some more view; this from the Rose Garden at UBC where I ate my lunch (Debbie forgot to pack hers, so she ate my banana)

Debbie after she realised she had no lunch

The other day (I forget which) Debbie received a parcel of presents from her family for no reason in particular (my family, take note) which I thought was very nice. She sat in my room and opened them all, spreading her happiness all over my jealousy.

Happy happy happy

This was taken another day (hence wardrobe change) when we went nuts and broke numerous health and safety regulations and lit the indoor sparklers over newspaper and a box of matches. If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much room.

Yesterday I had a day off and no one to play with so I took a wander downtown and went to the tourist information office to plan Ritchie and Gaby's holiday (you guys are SO paying my way while you're here). Got some information about the area between Vancouver and Calgary and have a preliminary route for the adventure.

I left the tourist information office a different way that I came in and was trying to find a coffee shop I had seen on the way there when I walked straight infront of the Bill Reid Art Gallery that had been recommended to me. Since I had nothing better to do I went in and had a look round. Bill Reid is an artist who does lots of Haida (first native) art, like the orca whales and eagles with all the patterns in them. I really liked his stuff because all the colours were so bold and the lines were so clean, and that appeals to my OCD side. There was a woman painting parts of a totem pole that was mid-way through being assembled too and it looked so relaxing. Wish that was my job. Making tea's stressful eh!

It was a pretty small museum so it didn't take long to walk round and then I went and found the coffee shop that I was looking for and did another half-crossword and looked through the tourist brochures. Felt proper touristy. Kinda liked it.

I had a pretty relaxing day, which was nice because today I had to try and sort out the unnecessarily complex MSc application and find out why I have no electricity bill and reclaim my seat at the top of the Geo Challenge leaderboard. Back to work later too. I have tomorrow off and I wanna go walk round Stanley Park again if it's sunny and then I have to work on Sunday then my next day off's Thursday!

Anyway, my tummy's pestering me for sustainance so I'm gonna go feed it a steak.