While you can get a lot of stuff free here, sometimes we have to pay cash money. I've bought a mediocre pair of rollerblades off a street stall. They're barely faster than running and it feels like running through quicksand. But that is behind me as I've bought a really good bike today off a guy on craigslist who is moving. I've been looking for a while online but a lot are overpriced, look crap or are clearly stolen. I was a bit wary of this deal as well but I met him, he said he's moving away and he seems legit. Plus his name is Mola, that's not a suspicious name is it?
In any case I bought the bike and he threw in a lock and two helmets. Why two helmets? Well, either he's really dedicated to the moving away/clearing out story and he hired an actress to play his girlfriend, or he is just looking to make some money off everything he can't bring with him. I felt slightly screwed by the rollerblades (even if I did haggle down to ten dollars) so I'm feeling pretty good about this as I've already cycled home and tackled the seawall loop around Stanley Park with no problems. Quite the opposite, actually, it runs pretty perfectly and I'd forgotten how amazing the scenery around the seawall is (I don't do the whole loop on my run, it would take two hours or something that way).
My birthday has been and passed. I hadn't even gotten used to being 25 and now I'm 26 it seems. We went to Capilano Suspension Bridge and Park, another stunning area that is mind-numbingly big. At night we went to a fancy shmancy Italian restaraunt that was really nice and just the right side of pretentious.
Tomorrow we're getting up early to go whale watching! We don't have many days off together so we try to cram as much as possible in when our rosters match up!
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