Trip to Vancouver, 2006

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I love the red bushes	Burrard Bridge in the rain is still pretty great	The beach downtown	Flowers on Denman Street
Flowers	This year i'm just an observer of the Vancouver Marathon	On Burrard Bridge	Shelley posing for the camera
André posing for the camera, later, downtown	Canada Place	I love these tourist bears	And next year there'll be a building here
Cruise ship, canada place, and lovely flowers	ditto on the flowers	and more flowers	At Cardero's
Crossing the Lion's Gate on our way to ....	Grouse Mountain	on top of the world	cool sculptures with view of Vancouver in the background
Science Centre from a moving car	Morning of Lobster Chowder, down at Granville Island to collect supplies	This is one of my favourite places	Awnings in front of public market
Getting oriented in Allan's big kitchen	Wowie, i've never cooked with such a big pot before	the lovely backyard	Ritsu, Shelley & Dave
Esther, Shelley, Glenna & Wayne	Teresa and Pat	Doesn't Bette look great?	Dr. Carol
WJ	Peggy & Steve	Bill, Marketa and Judi	Peter, the lovely husband of the lovely Bette
Hanging out in the back yard	Robin & Wayne	Model #1 (Stephanie) from CMHA	Lori & Greg
Model #2 (Grace) also from CMHA	Lyanne and Shelley	Marketa, Allan, WJ and me with a goofy face	Ann & Allan (hosts), with Marketa, WJ, and me
Jodi	The next day we head to Stanley Park	And even though the seawall was mostly closed, we managed to go cross-country	Of course, then Rachel phoned, and i fell off my bike trying to answer the phone in time
A small pause to make a balance sculpture	Dinner at Tojo's	Uncle Don, our waiter, Shelley and André at Tojo's	this is where karen lives
maddy and auntie shelley reading in bed	some things never change	Karen and Shelley (and even though i live far away, we're still best friends)	Breakfast at the new Sunshine Diner
On the ferry going to victoria	we ate dinner here	Rich, Shelley and Beth	Rich and Beth (she's part-timer #2 hidden away in victoria)
The view from our hotel room at Laurel Point	Burrard Bridge looks nicer on a sunny day	View of downtown from GI	Brendan, Jennifer & Kieran
You've got to love these two boys	Linda, Sierra & Wendy	Isn't she fabulous?	Crescent Beach
Crescent Beach	Crescent Beach	I never get tired of taking this same picture	Morag and I have our obligatory visit to Jericho Beach
And here's Morag	Zsuzsi - Love me, love my prawns	Dexter dong some improvisational dance	Zed and John
All of the flowers from Lobster Chowder, plus the celebratory engagement champagne back at Shauna's	On the plane, heading home	I never get tired of this view, either	or this one
And once back in Montreal, another client is in town, and so we have her over for dinner - Nancy and Shelley