Sunday, March 25, 2012

Exploring Steveston

On Saturday, Sara and I explored Steveston, a historic fishing town a 30 minute drive outside Vancouver.  It'd been recommended to us by a few people so we were excited to finally getting around to seeing it.  I'm on March Break and since we're not travelling we both thought it would be good to explore a little.

A bus, a sky train, and another bus later, we had arrived in Steveston. We explored a nice set of shops, starting with Serendipity's backyard where we picked up a few bees wax candles.

 We explored the boardwalk and looked at fishing boats before stopping at a nice place for brunch.
 

After brunch we explored the old cannery.
And then discovered the beautiful Gary Point park.  Highly recommended for just walking around, playing on the beach, flying a kite, walking a dog,...


Gary Point Park 

Gary Point Park

It was fairly windy in Gary Point, so we decided it was time to head home.  On the bus ride, we listened to "Never be Sick Again" - an audio book I downloaded haphazardly when I was trying to figure out how to download audio books from the Vancouver Public Library onto my Galaxy Nexus (phone).  The book is sorta crazy, the author talks about all sorts of harmful health risks in our foods and environment.  Well, when we finally got back home (after another 3 busses) we decided to go grocery shopping.  Maybe you can see some of the author's influence on our selection (every product is 100% organic):
Although to be honest, he wouldn't approve of the milk (don't drink milk), the bananas (only eat fruit that is in season locally), the granola bars or soup (don't eat packaged foods), the cereal (don't eat cereal).  He also wouldn't like that some of the food is in plastic.  Oh, and if you eat the fruit, make sure you don't eat any other food with it.  And if you eat carbs, remember not to eat protein with it.  Oh, and don't drink tap water - it's poisoned.

After a dinner of (perogies and broccoli), we watched Star Trek:

All in all, a great day.  Loved Steveston - and certainly want to visit again soon.  

-Rob