Path to enlightenment

Apparently Flickr decided to send now all the entries I sent last week but which didn't appear earlier - I've put them to their cronological order and apologise for the confusion.

My parents are of the determined type - even though the weather was a bit miserable they wanted to continue their tour of Vancouver. My dad went to buy some shoes while I gossiped with Chu, and we joined him later with my mom and went to see the steam clock in Gastown. That's a weird piece of "mock history" as far as I know - some sources say that it was actually built in 1977, others call it the "oldest steam clock in the world" - as it's probably the only one, both might be true. How does a clock work with steam, I hear you say - or even "why would you want a clock to work with steam". The answer is, I don't know why - but it's still quite entertaining: every 15 minutes it chimes a little tune (same as Big Ben, of course) and lets off lot of steam.

Then we proceeded to Chinatown, and went for a meal in a typical Chinatown restaurant: cheap, plentiful and good food, and absolutely no glamour. The place was full of Chinese and we didn't much hear English - still we got all the service necessary. After the meal we went to buy some tea - finally tried Puh Er tea, but more on that later - and then we went to see Dr. Sun Yat-Sen which was as lovely as ever, only I seem to be destined to see it only when it's raining. At least it wasn't as cold as last time.

The evening was topped off with my first ever Buddhist meditation class at Flow Yoga. Very interesting experience, we tried walking meditation, breath meditation and loving kindness meditation - all very different. I feel like I want to say a lot on the subject but I can't find the words right now. Or maybe the experience is so personal that I can't share it with anyone.