Best weekend in … well, a long time

This past weekend was probably the best on record in quite a while. Saturday I wandered around Ambleside with my cousin before heading to the Lions game at Empire Field. The Lions lost (prediction for the 2010 season: 10 wins, 8 losses) in a show of almost total ineptitude, but as I’ve said to anyone who will listen, the ‘temporary’ field is fantastic. It’s such a shame that they’ll only use it for a season, or season and a half at most. It cost a fraction of the half-billion dollars that’ll be spent putting a new roof on the concrete monstrosity of BC Place, and is a far better sport-watching venue than the dome. Granted it might not be as fantastic once it’s rainy and chilly in late October, but for the next three months, it’s going to be great.

Sunday the ladyfriend, me, and a couple of friends went to Buntzen Lake equipped with barbecue, tubular meat products, and innertubes. Despite some temporary barbecue problems, we had a pretty relaxing time (I was the only one to float in the lake for an extended period of time). That evening we all visited the Richmond Night Market, one of the dozen or so things that Vancouverites are expected to have done that we hadn’t yet. It too was a fun time, seeing all sorts of hats, handbags, socks, cellphone cases, sunglasses, and other assorted straight-from-China knicknacks. No one was brave enough to try some curry fish balls or fried whole squid - the ‘double whammy’ of street vendors, plus food no white person’s body is used to consuming, was a gastrointestinal experiment we weren’t willing to try. No sense ending a good weekend with explosive diarrhea!