Good weekend

Rainy days vs. sunny days is tied in at 3 - 3 at the moment. The weekend was absolutely gorgeous - clear bright weather, absolutely perfect for walking around the city. Not that Vancouverites seem to mind, whatever the weather - the most perplexing sight so far has been people sitting outside on restaurant patios eating and drinking - and we're talking about evening temperatures of 5 C or so.

On Saturday we went for a little window shopping, and to a design exhibition Massive Change:The Future of Global Design in Vancouver Art Gallery with Janne. Exhibition was pretty interesting, and certainly thought provoking which is always good. Then we took a walk to Canada Place (although we didn't go in), and went to the Lookout tower that showed fantastic view of the city. In fact, we stayed there for well over an hour - just sitting there, watching the mountains and talking. One of the most peaceful moments in Canada so far - watching the mountains as sun was going down, seeing how the light was changing, then last of the sunlight reflecting of the windows of the houses in the mountains and then seeing how the North Vancouver slowly lit up again when it got dark. Fantastic.

On Sunday we went for a peaceful breakfast in the harbour with Janne and Minna - the restaurant was quite fancy, and the food was (again) just superb (I had Eggs Benedict - I love Eggs Benedict). After that Janne had to leave for the airport but Minna had the day to spare before her flight so we ventured to Vancouver Aquarium in Stanley Park to see the whales. They have a small group of Beluga whales there which we really wanted to see, and just happened to wander outside when they had a show starting. All done in good taste I think - not jumping trough hoops or anything silly like that, the show was more based on educating the audience about the whales than doing tricks. Still, the habitat looked awfully small for such huge animals... But it was still really cool seeing the whales, especially in the underwater observatory, and Beluga whales are just sublime.

Today, we're back to rainy weather, and I mean really rainy. I took Dragon to work this morning - it's his first day - and I'm off exploring next. I think I'll explore the possibility of acquiring an umbrella first.

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