Where will your journey take you?

The flight was on time, actually arrvied 5 minutes earlier than scheduled. As I was filling the custom/health form, I realized that exactly 7 years ago, I said goodbye to families at this airport and started my journey in Canada by myself..

 

Weather in Shanghai is really weird. As the plane was landing, saw this red orange Sun trying to shine from behind the thick grey clouds. Suppose to rain - thundershower.  The air was fairly warm. High 25 celsius degree & low 20 - historically high for the month of November.

 

Stayed home for the first night, enjoyed a delicious crab feast! Thanks to Aunti Haixia. Finally I am home at the right season (November is the best season for Crab) YUM YUM!

 

Will take a short break today and will travel to Lijiang, Yunnan province tomorrow with my folks. Just for 4 days which is not enough to visit that area. We are just gonna focus on the old town of Lijiang and have a taste of this acient little town -  full of history, rich cultures & tourists from all over the world..  em.. exciting!

Plan to back on Saturday, if the flight is not overly booked! Look forward to getting together with friends and families after the trip!

 

BTW, Cannot link to facebook. @_2

 

 

Such a rainy day today, not the best day to travel. Fallen leaves blocked the street drain, so the streets turned into little river..
Taxi driver said that it's gonna rain the whole week till next Sunday..em..good thing I picked the right week.

Did not take the new Canada Line to the airport, with a 30kg luggage, that would not be fun. But station at the airport is really convenient, a short walkway takes you right into the airport terminal. Gotta try next time when fly domestic!

 

Waiting to be boarded, suppose to start boarding in 8 mintues, but no remarks on the information board yet, so hopefully there is no delay (How I hate delays, have no paitents for it..good thing I don't need to make any connection.

 

Super slow wireless internet connection at YVR, maybe should not conplain as it's free..

 

anyway, hope to be home in 15 hours.. (my back won't like sitting for 13 hours for sure..@_@ at least I have pain-killers ready@_@

 

Often hear people say I wish there is more than 24 hours in a day... nothing is impossible...today, we have 25 hours.
Every 1st Sunday of Nov, the Day Light saving ends, we need to adjust the clock 1 hour backwards, so we gain an extra hour today.

 

Did you do anything special today? One more hour to take advantage of...em..I walked around the neighbourhood. Can't say it's something special, but I haven't done if for a while after my back injury.

 

Fall is definitely my favorite season, especially in Vancouer...The leaves start to turn into two colours - yellow, actually golden yellow and red - firebrick red. The city all of sudden is surrounded by these vibrant colours. Anywhere you look you can find a priceless picutre of nature.

 

 

Even better, it's a full moon night. The sky is crystal clear with no clouds. You can easily see the dark spots on the moon.

 

 

It's ture that you can discover something new everyday, if you try to look for them.

Did not know the lovely but deadly mushrooms could be find in this area...Aren't they pretty?!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A perfect Halloween Night starts with...

 

Dark Couldy Sky + Pale Moonlight....@_@

 

And then.. Crime Scene waiting to be "investigated"

 

 

Our Leading actor - Little Pirate Owen (The pirate hat was bothering him, so..he took it off.. as a two-and-half years old, Owen can certainly make his own decision..!)

 

Then all neighbours in this block gathered at the end of the alley - together we enjoyed a firework show while having yummy hot apple cider & "bloody Finger Cookies"..

 

The firework was very small scale, nothing compare to what we have back home; but I enjoyed so much. Being with all these people at this cold night, with teens running around the firework, little kids' scream & cries in the background, it brought all my childhood memory back...about the firework, about my neighbours, about my friends..friends that I haven't seen in years.

 

Definitely very grateful to my childhood friends, because of you, I have this memory to cherish. Also very thankful for tonight cause it will become another memoriable moment in my years here.

 

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Never grab your DC without checking the battery....
Just before the block party started, my DC battery died...ai e ya..@_@.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Went to Bard on Beach and saw OPERA & ARIAS: Così fan tutte on Sept 7th, 2009 with Steph.

 

Così fan tutte literally means "Thus do all [women]" but it is often translated as "Women are like that".

 

Not  a big fan of Opera, prefer musical a lot better. However I actually enjoyed the show very much so. The story was very funny, highly improbable rather. The characters are exaggerated, beyond my expectation. The stage was bralliant - in an open-ended tent against a spectacular backdrop of local mountains, sea and sky. You can also see the seanplane flying over. The music was so great and linked the story together. 

 

 

Backgournd on Bard on Beach:

Bard on Beach is a fully profesional, non-profit theatre company provides people in Vancouver with affordable, accessible fine quality Shakespeare productions. The plays are staged in VAnier Park on Vancouver's waterfront in open-ended tents.