Kitsilano and Metrotown

As I think I've mentioned, I usually have a day or two off by myself as herself and anyone else we know are working. This week I went to Kitsilano and Metrotown for some shopping.

Kitsilano feels like a seperate town and not just a smaller district in a big city. As well as being a beach/outdoor pool/museum and planetarium town, it also has a lot of seond hand and thrift stores.

These are great, you can find pretty much everything in there from entire kitchenware sets to office furniture, gym equipment and TVs. Then there's also clothes, DVDs, CDs etc etc. I love poking around because you never know what's going to show up, and some of the ornaments and household items are crazy. My favourite find was 3 huge pitchers from Oktoberfest 2004-2007. A close second was the A Day In The Life of Ireland photobook. What I ended up buying was a rainjacket for $10 and a Terry Brooks series for $4.

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Metrotown or rather Metropolis at Metrotown is a huge mall connected to the train station that takes a couple of hours to walk around.

It is 3 stories high and is the type of artificial environment, constructed by those devious capitalists that anarchists and communists despise secretly love. From the glass tunnel that links the train station to the mall, to the air conditioning that subtly keeps you in tip top shopping condtion or even the ginormo-food court, the mall is structured to ensure you NEVER HAVE TO LEAVE. Strangely enough there were a lot of shops that I haven't seen anywhere else and I finally found some clothes shops simillar to Penneys or TK Maxx.

It's getting colder so I've invested in some winter clothes..Amazingly though the dreaded rainy season has yet to hit. I'm aware this post was pretty boring/consumerist... But tomorrow we're getting back into the great Canadian outdoors as we go to Grouse Mountain, one of the highest points in British Columbia. I'm sure there will be loads of photos to follow.

I'm also considering putting together a post on the different beers I've tried. The days of partying on the weekends are gone, due to work and to be honest due to the different lifestyle over here. There's less boredom and less dependance on alcohol-based fun. And less craic sometimes but anyway.