Connected, finally

Well, we finally got the computer yesterday and I immediately hooked it up on the hotel's broadband (which is little under 3MB which is very nice) and everything was fine. Unfortunately the connection was lost quite soon afterwards, and call to the help centre resulted in "they are trying to solve the issues, but there is no ETA"... But it's back now which is most important.

Weather forecasts have promised nothing but heavy rain over the weekend, and they sure seem to be accurate. The rain here is very thorough and it soaks absolutely everything. So what more perfect day than this to spend some time in a museum. The museum we chose was the Museum of Anthropology at Univerity of British Columbia, and good choice is was, too. The exhibit wasn't very big, but the native people's totem poles and other carved wooden items were just spectacular. The photo below is one of the most famous sculptures potraying the moment in the ancestral past of the Haida people when Raven, a wise and powerful yet mischievous trickster, has just found the first humans in a clam shell on the beach, and is coaxing them out of it. Very beautiful and so impressive.

For lunch we decided to finally go and eat in the Mongolian BBQ restaurant next to us, and I have to say I'm not surprised at all that people are queueing up to eat there. The idea is that you take a bowl, you go and pick different meats, greens, noodles and sauces from the bar, and give the to the cook who then proceeds to cook the food for you on hot plate (which only takes 20 seconds or so). The photo below shows the cook preparing Dragon's second bowl - one was quite enough for me. The food was absolutely fantastic, and the price was more than fair: $6 for one bowl or $8 for all you can eat... I'm getting hungry again even thinking about it.