Woohoo!!! Snow!

It's snowing in Vancouver and it's plus 15 in Toronto. . .is there something wrong with this picture? NOT WHERE I'M STANDING!! The snow is great :) I was going to go to bed but then I saw how much had fallen on the ground! Awesome!

The Rolling Stones ROCKED!

I went to see the Rolling Stones last night, it was off the hook! My seats were a little high. Let's put it this way, if I stood on my chair I would have been able to touch the inflated roof! However, didn't matter, was great to be there. It was the last show of their Bigger Bang tour. The stage was incredible. All of a sudden part of the floor lifts and it goes down a conveyor belt towards the end of the floor seats and they sing probably three songs before moving back to the original stage. Very cool!! The show was sold out and the audience was LOUD! Loved it!!!

Way to go BC Lions!!

Woohoo! Street party! The BC Lions brought the Grey Cup to the Art Gallery for a little lunch time party. Lots of people showed up to help the Lions celebrate their win. And, they even fixed the cup intime to bring it back to Vancouver too!

Vancouver's Santa Claus Parade

It ended up being a beautiful day on Sunday for the 3rd Annual Santa Claus Parade. I made it to the parade just in time for the Tim Horton's float to drive by! Was fun, got to eat lots of chocolate, except one of the groups was just throwing the candy on the street for people to pick up, which I thought a little odd, besides that, it was Halloween Candy!!! There lots of people as well, somewhere around 250,000 lined the route to wait for Santa. I think they said the parade was to last about one hour, I showed up at about 2/3's of the way along the route, I'm not sure how long previously it started before I showed up but it was well over two hours I'm sure!















Santa!!

Lest we Forget

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Lietenant Colonel John McCrae

Memories of Denman Island - Part One

I received my cd of pictures from the Denman Island Retreat on Friday. It was nice looking over the pictures, thinking of the memories of Denman Island. For anyone that hasn't been on Denman Island, take a trip there and stay for a few days, each time you go, you will stay for longer and longer each time. There's not a lot to do there but that's the best part!

The Back Hall of Denman Island, where all the magic happened (below)

The Dancing! (below)



The shopping!!! The shopping was good, we love Brenda when she comes to town!

Memories of Denman Island - Part Two

Everyone dressed up to perform! (below)


Hmmmm, the food! We ate like this everyday..and the second picture, mid-morning and mid-afternoon we had coffee, fresh juice, homemade cookies and fruit for snacks. (below)


Bruce, the man everyone wanted to take home with us, he feed us everyday, thank god we were dancing so many hours, because the food was so good, everyone had thirds. (below)

Dancing at the end of the night (below)

A day in the life of a Pink wig (Halloween party)

The office Princesses (below)


Actually, the real office princesses (below)

Haloween!

Oh my god! The flower has eyes! (below)


Spooky cookies at Terra Breads (below)


Houses on Mole Hill (below)

The rest of my movies from the 25th Vancouver International Film Festival

I've not posted anything for a week. I was to see A Stone's Throw on Thursday, but was too tired. Saturday I saw the Page Turner. A movie of revenge from France. This was good. I was pleasantly surprised, and yes, there were a few times where I had my hand over my mouth in shock over what I was seeing (I can't type it here incase anyone sees it). I also saw The Yacoubian Building from Egypt. This was a three hour dramatic movie about gays, class structures, family dynamics, poor, rich, and everything in between. Not what I'm used too for an Egyptian movie and the only thing I'll say bad about it was the musical score. They had this one very dramatic piece of music they would use EACH AND EVERYTIME something dramatic happened in the movie. It got a little tiring after a while, but it was still an enjoyable movie.

Sunday, I watched Offside first. I never thought I would say this about an Iranian movie, but it was light, fluffy and very funny! Usually, the Iranian movies I've seen have some sort of serious outcome. This was about a group of woman who try to dress as boys an sneak into a theatre to watch the 2006 World Cup qualifier game. They get arrested (all individually) and then torment their capturers until they escape at the very end. Great light fare! I also saw Beauty in Trouble. This was from the Czeck Republic and set in or about 2002, right after the floods. Apparently a lot of people didn't have insurance and were completely devastated by the flooding, loosing house and business. It was the story of one such family and the people around them. Good movie (same director as Divided We Fall which was nominated for an Oscar).

Monday I saw two more movies (was to see three but I gave up The King and the Clown. It was a hit in South Korea recently so I know I'll find it on DVD at some point.) The first was Young Triffie's Been Done Away With. It was entertaining, I have to admit I was slightly disappointed but it was still very funny. Mary Walsh does rock and she was quite funny in the movie. There were tons of Newfie and other Maritime actors in the movie as well as some other very funny Canadians. The other movie I saw was a documentary called More than 1000 Words. It's about Ziv Koren (www.zivkoren.com go check out the website, amazing and sometimes terrifying pictures), a photojournalist in Israel. He does amazing work and it's a bit scary to follow him around it he documentary. He documents the conflict in Israel and just because he's an Israeli doesn't mean you see the conflict through just an Israeli's eyes, he wants people to see the truth, no matter how scary for either side. This was my favorite movie/documentary this year from the film festival. It's very movie, it's very sad and you got to see a glimpse into his life and what he sees (and it's incredible what the photojounalists see). SEE THIS DOCUMENTARY!!!