Merry Christmas

It's a few days away, but before we forget in a drunken moment, Merry Christmas Everybody!!

Appropriate Weather

A lot of the Christmas booze has been bought, we have the turkey, stuffing and sausage meat. Mincemeat, shortbread and Thorntons Special Toffee.

Today, the Christmas tree will be going up, Karen will be finishing off her shopping and I may be wrapping.

So, it's appropriate that it looks like this outside:

Sea Bus

The sea bus over to the North shore, and the potential for more festivities, allowed us a close up of a couple of huge container ships as we threaded our way across the water to Lonsdale Quay.

Memories of Wigan

It was fitting and quite a coincidence that as we were married in Wigan, Lancashire, a quarter of a century ago, here as we enjoyed beer and food in a pub in downtown Vancouver, Wigan Athletic lost three nothing to Newcastle United.

The match was live, not recorded.

Steamworks

Lunch, a microbrewed IPA (Empress Pale Ale) along with good food, Chili and Butter Chicken with a coconut curry sauce, chips, cheese bread, naan. It was all very yummy, a great way to spend an anniversary lunch at the Steamworks, downtown Vancouver.

Steamed Buns

After the ferry, the bus, the train we wanted some breakfast and headed to the nearest Starbucks, while waiting in line a couple of locals were tucking into these amazing things, we walked outside and next door was a little Chinese bakery that sold these steamed, spicy meat, buns. Like a dumpling with the meat, vegetables and sauce inside.

It was the first time, it certainly won't be the last.