Coming back from an enjoyable evening with friends late last night, my wife and I managed to catch what probably was the last SkyTrain doing the VCC-Clark/Waterfront route. We thought we were good to go for a one way ride to Downtown, but as we reached the Columbia station, the SkyTrain stopped (as planned, apparently) [...]
Archive for March, 2009
ADV’N'TURES IN PUBLIC TRANSIT
Posted in Life, tagged action, adventure, arguments, bus, confrontation, drama, driver, drunk, jackpot, lively, night, police, public, public transit, security, shouting, skytrain, transit, translink, unusual, vancouver on March 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
2009 ST-PATRICK’S DAY PARADE
Posted in Events, tagged 2009, celtic, dancing, fest, festival, gaelic, green, irish, leprechaun, medieval, music, parade, photography, rain, st-patrick's day parade, vancouver on March 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It was a lousy day for a parade. It was cold, wet, snowy at times and the usually packed crowd was showing breaks on its “front line” even as the parade started rolling. About an hour into the parade, the opposite side of the street was pretty much empty, the paraders themselves barely having an [...]
THEY’RE BAAA-AAACK!!!
Posted in Life, tagged celebration of light, Events, fireworks, hsbc, keg, photography, summer, sun, vancouver on March 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wow. Although I was hoping the fireworks would be back sooner than later, I didn’t expect them to come back just a month after they were cancelled!
See the article in the Vancouver Sun.
Let’s Celebrate!
