Surprisingly Vancouver day

Today was a very good day. A very good Vancouver-themed day. Full of activities and food, most of which I never would have thought that I would enjoy before moving to Vancouver. Truthfully, I don't think that Vancouver really has anything to do with it, time does. People change, I change, and its just easier to see such changes when I can cut my life up into chunks... and what better chunks than cross-country moves?

The day started with getting a pedicure with S. It was her first "real" pedicure, and it was the first time that I was paying for one myself. We really enjoyed the pampering, foot rubs, leg massages, and little white flowers that appeared on our big toes!

We then proceeded to an ice cream heaven: Marble Slab I think it was called. You choose your ice cream, your mix-ins, and then mix it all up on a marble slab (hence the name) before putting it in a freshly made waffle cone. Scrumptious to say the least. Now, my enjoying ice cream while sitting on a beach is not a new activity in itself. The surprise came half-way through eating: I was full, and really, there was just too much ice cream, and it was just too sweet!?! Good grief. I'm loosing my high tolerance to sugar.

The food surprises did not end there. I had been invited to my aunt and uncle's house for supper: barbecued prawns and sockeye salmon collars. On a previous visit to Vancouver, during my undergrad, I remember visiting with my aunt and uncle and eating B.'s yummy barbecued prawns. Since then, prawns and lobster have been tied as my favorite food. But today, the sockeye salmon collars were even better than the prawns! Gasp! Me, Aki, who used to snub my nose at all cooked fish, ate so much fish that I didn't even have room for E.'s lovely berry cobbler!

So there we have it. People change, I change, my taste buds change... and I love Vancouver!