Soda Craze

(Though slightly less well-documented than previous years!  Mea culpa)

So I went to Vancouver, uh, like three weeks ago to celebrate my birthday.  Many long-distance gropes of gratitude to my saxy hosts, and their saxy condo, and their saxy Mazda.

We begin!

We visited Japadog one day and I think Kim found it hard to fathom why I was having difficulty eating through my giggles.  I don’t know why either.  Ice Cube strikes me as an incredibly laughable figure for some reason, and for him to have eaten at Japadog and for them to have put his picture up, oh God, I’ve got the giggles again.

This is something I think Crazy White Girl would make at home!  You’ve got the miso mayo for earthiness and mouthfeel, the turkeydog for saltiness and chewiness, the radish sprouts for crunch and spice and getting stuck in your teeth for an hour whilst you visit the Gucci store, also tahini for richness.  I added a squirt of some unknown but delicious President’s Choice condiment simply labelled SWEET AND HOT.

The Olympic countdown clock!  And me in my “Hello I am dork” position.  I think this comes up again.

Ah, yes.  This is the world’s biggest tin soldier.  “Uh, why do you want a picture with the world’s biggest - “  “SHUT UP AND PRESS THE BUTTON.”

Again with the giggling fit.  (At the marketplace at the quay in New Westminster.)

I forget what bridge this was, but we were standing on the boardwalk at the quay in New Westminster and… Kim, little help here?  I feel certain that you told me the name but the Peach Thunderbolt made me forget it, also my name and where I lived.

The moral for next year is that you pass the camera to the other person to photograph the sparkler, then take your own picture.  If you do it the other way around what you get for the birthday shot is this:

Have you ever seen anything sadder?

I had actually forgotten that I took this photo!  Oh criminy they’re cute.  I call it “Wuv, Twoo Wuv.”

And I call this one… you know, I don’t even know what to call this one.  It looks like a sexual assault but they were just wrestling, because that’s what puppies do.  Macho Man Stampy Savage!!