We lounged around in the morning, but then, before noon, we headed downtown to the fish market. It's not in the harbour, but pretty close by. We got to choose the crabs we wanted for supper. Four beauties fresh caught. In the afternoon Zach had gotten us tickets to see the new Star Wars movie. So, out to Langford to the nice AVX theatre. Good movie. Long movie.  On the way home we did a couple errands, including grabbing some liquor from the little store n...

Didn't actually sleep that late. The first thing Zach and I did was to walk down to Cadboro Bay and look at the beach. It's where we used to live, so it was a little nostalgic seeing together again. We kept asking ourselves why we'd moved back to cold Edmonton. Zach was pretty surprised at how much had been done to fix Gyro park. But the water was still really high up, so we couldn't go for a walk down the beach. The one thing Zach really wanted...

In the morning I finished editing my paper and finally sent it off around noon. We did a quick stop at Buttons and Bows, a fabric store I've been to before, so my Mum could get some orange piping to make one of the pillows for Zach. Since we were right there, we also went a couple shops down to the cheese shop. It's tiny and completely filled with all sorts of specialty items (including pickled herring). We picked up some cheese for a fondue we're ho...

Woke up with a horrible cold: nose and sinuses completely stuffed. Felt kinda miserable until I took a shower under the rain shower-head. Spent the morning working on my paper again, but not for long. Just before lunch we went to go see The Ducks. My mum had told me (and shown me pictures) of the ducks she wanted me to see. But you don't really know what it's like until you've been there and seen the ducks first hand. There's over a hundred duc...

Slept in, of course, because of a latish night and because I'm kinda on holidays. I did some work on my paper in the morning, hoping to get some of it done. I wasn't that productive. I was also starting to feel kinda sick with a headache and plugged nose. I was lucky enough to get chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast because I don't get those at home. But for lunch, we went to Fujiya: my favourite cheap, near-home takeout sushi place. So nice to hav...