(aka, a lot of words in attempt to catch up)

If I had a dollar for everytime I wrote a post at a coffee shop, I’m pretty sure I’d be rich.  Or maybe just less broke from spending so much money on coffee, haha.

Anyway!  I am in Vancouver!  Crazy, I know.  I kind of debated over it for a while (because I should probably be investing in other things), but then I decided that life’s not about stuff, it’s about people and memories and the endlessly changing horizon, and so I bought the ticket and here I am.

I actually flew to Oregon and stayed with Amy (former roommate from UBC) and her family for a week before venturing to Vancouver.  Ione (another fellow friend from UBC) also came down before heading home, so it was lovely to see her as well!  The week contained a lot of being lazy and watching the Olympics, but also adventures of varying sizes.  We drove to the coast one day, which was beautiful.  Oh!  And we stopped at the Tillamook Cheese Factory on the way.  I’ve wanted to go there for ages (what can I say, I like cheese) so I was pretty excited about that.  The GPS navigation on my phone would count down the miles to “The Cheese Factory”; that was probably the best part.

We also took Amy’s mother’s class’s (whoa, that seems like way too many possessives) pet along for the ride, which is a decent-sized-duck-goose named Aflac.  He accompanied us pretty much everywhere.

The beach was beautiful though!  I love how beaches in different places are all essentially the same, but they all have their own unique like, feel.  I don’t know how to explain that.  It was pretty, I’ll stick to that.

There were also adorable animals and quite a lot of baking.

And trees! A lot of trees. Especially where Amy’s house was. There were Christmas tree farms everywhere – it was pretty awesome. Massive fields full of Christmas trees of all sizes, happily growing. Alas, the day I planned a Christmas tree photo adventure I ended up getting kind of sick, so no photo… fail, I know. But! Here are some normal-and-still-cool trees!

We also went into Portland a couple of times, and went to Powell’s, which I kind of completely adore.  It’s pretty much the coolest bookstore ever.  It’s like, an entire block of books.  And there was a coffee shop.  It was beautiful (…and I failed to take a picture, oops.).

Ah, I missed writing.  I miss a lot of things… I must stop missing them and start doing them.  Indeed.  Anyway!  More from Vancouver soonish!