A Brief Update - May Madness

My my it's been a while hasn't it, and for that I appologise! Things kinda got into a routine over here - work, play, work, play, make travel plans - not much in the way of actual travelling or sight-seeing really. No gigs either - although we had several acts in-store at HMV including Fanshaw and the John Butler Trio (who were pretty cool). Jules and Emily went to see John Butler Trio in concert the same day, but I was absolutely shattered and took a pass.

Lets see, what did we do in May? Well we had Jules' family members visit and a night out at the Roxy, went to a cool Japanese Bar called Guu for Johanna's birthday meal:

...plenty of nights out at Club 23... I took a day off from Spag to enjoy the sunshine on Kits Beach, and had a free French lesson (courtesy of Etienne) whilst drinking Sangria.

We went to Kareoke night at the Met with the Spaghetti Factory crowd, succesfully organised a HMV-Spag-Roomate dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory, had a few BBQs with a Barbie which Jules and Emily found on Craigs List for $10 (and took the whole day to retrieve). Rachel and I went to see IronMan 2 (awesome film!), and at the very last minute decided I would go camping with Jules and Emily in Alberta afterall!!!

So the rest of May was a mad rush to organise a camping trip into the Rockies, which you will be hearing about shortly... I was lucky enough that my cousins could come over and bring me essential camping supplies the day before - which worked out really well, because we met up and dropped stuff off, before having lunch at the Grasshoper cafe on Granville together. It was a lovely sunny day so we sat out on the patio, and despite the drugged-up verbal abuse from certain people on the sidewalk it was a pleasant meal - though we very nearly made John ill by suggesting the Cajun Chicken. (I didn't know he was allergic to Paprika!!)

Then after eating we were wandering, and came across a magic act - which was very entertaining, but they did seem to only have one trick each - getting out of a straight jacket and doing a rubics cube blindfolded (and I kinda know how both of those tricks are done). Still it was good banter. After that I dropped them off at the busstop, as they were heading to the Aquarium - and I was heading for work. And then the next day... I'd be on the road.