No updates for a while...no reason. I haven't really been in the mood to write much of anything. And that's just how it goes sometimes.
We are now on Spring break...almost at the end of the first week, in fact. A recap on the recent week. Quiet weekend. Bronwyn went to a party on Saturday and I have no idea what we did on Sunday. On Monday Bronwyn and I did some errands. See...that's why I didn't update.The excitement is too much to put into words.
On Tuesday I planned to take the kids on the skytrain...a first for both of them. We also invited Nicky along. His mum had an unfortunate incident involving her dirt-bike and a tree which resulted in a broken leg. Mike was back and forth to the hospital. She is home now and recovering well. We had a good day out. River loves the bus and Bronwyn and Nicky had a good time playing around. Taking the skytrain is an interesting experience, in more ways than one. I hadn't taken the skytrain in over 10 years. It's fun to "fly" over the tops of the houses and parks and factories. Fun if you do it once every few years I suppose, and not if it's your miserable daily commute to a grey cubicle inside a grey concrete block day after day...year after year.
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| Bronwyn and Nicky taking flight |
New West, unfortunately, is a dump. For those that know Grimsby, it is like the end of Freemo where the dole office used to be (maybe still is) and the scary Rainbow pub (I think it was called). And the small greasy spoon cafe that my friend and I used to go to after we'd signed. Making one cup of tasteless instant coffee last a couple of hours. It was run by a woman with 5 sons, a couple of whom used to regularly beat her up and steal money etc. Pleasant little flashback. We walked along the main street looking for somewhere to eat (that didn't look scary, or wasn't a bar). Fabulous buildings. New Westminster was once the big thriving centre of BC. Then along came the Canadian Pacific Railway, reaching all the way to Vancouver in the late 1800s and New West lost out. It seems as though there was once an opportunity for it to avoid becoming a dump, but things have been allowed to decay; cheap stores selling cheap rubbish, bars that mostly operate during the day, lots of wedding shops (for some strange reason), and greasy spoons. Not much character and virtually no charm that I could detect. I apologize if anyone from New Westminster, who is proud of their town, reads this. I know what it is like when your town is called a dump so I can kind of sympathize...except that I happened to agree. Westminster quay and the "market" (I think there have to actually be vendors in order for a place to qualify as a "market") was completely deserted. We still had a good time and the kids played at the quay for a while, making up their own games. The trip there and back was a lot of fun...interesting people-watching too.
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| Tugboat "interior" playground leftover from Expo '86 |
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| New Westminster quay |
On Thursday I took Bronwyn and her friend Gala on a trip to Steveston. It was a really grand day out. A treasure hunt in the charity store, a play at the playground (Steveston has a really cool playground), a trip to the candy store AND the toy store.
Bronwyn found this treasure...
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| Not sure what to say about this...it's errr...interesting |
They had a lot of fun and so did I. Steveston really is a good place to visit. And the sun came out!
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| Gala balancing on the teeter-totter at Steveston Playground |
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| Hanging around |
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| The boardwalk |
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| "I love you Anchor"...to quote Bronwyn. She loves me too. |
5 comments:
I remember New West being an unfortunate and neglected dump when I last went there - 7 years ago to buy my wedding dress. (Odd that NW should have sooo may bridal stores but nothing else). And I too pictured the exact same part of Grimsby when I went to New West - end of Freemo, near the Dock Tower flyover & the seedy pubs at Riby Square - where 'love/hate' knuckle tattoos are a pre-requisite. Looks like you managed to have fun all the same. Great Steveston photos too.
Looks fun even though you don't think it is overly exciting. As long as you enjoy it there is no need to be an award winning week, just to get through it and not say it was bad - is good in my book.
Chilled is good and you just have such wonderful places in Canada.
I love the picture of River, you could write so many captions to it. He just looks like he is blown away by the whole thing - FAB!!
Hope all is well.
My blog is a bit of a moan, so if you dare to read it you had better have had a couple of stiff drinks. I am really missing having close friends around me at the moment.
Wxx
Hey, thanks for catching up, you must have had a few to wade through all the moans and groans. Reply is on my blog.
Wxx
@ Trini...that is exactly where I meant!
@ Wendy...thanks for your comments. I know what you mean. You don't have to apologise for moans and groans. There is a lot on your plate! Miss you. Vicx
Great pictures again Victoria!!
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