Best restaurant of 2009

Continuing with my challenge

This year's best restaurant is probably Stepho's Greek Taverna on Davie St in Vancouver

It's a tiny little place, really dark with little candles on your tables, super greek looking.

As you can see there is ALWAYS a huge line up to get in. So it's just easier to order take out and go pick it up since it's only a couple of blocks away from our house.

The food is DELICIOUS. The service is so fast. The prices are unreal. It's about $20 for the two of us to eat, and that's an ENTIRE meal. I usually get the chicken souvlakia. So good. Comes with rice, potates, salad. Large servings of course, it's Greek! And so good. It's the first thing our landlord told us about when we moved here. And I'm really glad he did.


I ran 5k today. The heel was a little annoying for a bit. My whole body wasn't used to running that's for sure. But I'm ready for the Santa Shuffle. Also signed up for another 5k on Jan 1 ! yaaay running.
David's mom comes for a visit tomorrow so I must clean clean clean!

Best trip of 2009

I've joined a blog ring to reflect on 2009!
See it here.

Anyway, it start off with best trip of 2009.

I think it would have to be camping with David and members of the Place at Rathtrevor Park this past August. It was our last big event before we moved to Vancouver.Our humble set up. This was QUITE the adventure to get this giant tarp up. David left with several cuts. It was a rainy cloudy week which was a bummer, but the rain held off until the very last day when it poured so we left
The water was SO FAR AWAY. You can see where the tide comes in, and waaaaaay in the distance is where it was during the day. It was quite a walk to go swimming...but I did get to see sand dollars. I didn't know they were live and purple when so, and white when they died. SO COOL.

David and Bob passed A LOT of time playing Aerobie, it's like a little frisbee but only the outer circle and it flies super far. It was amusing to watch.The province was on a campfire ban while we were there :( too many forest fires. But we had a coal fire, it lights for a bit and then just keeps warm. Good enough for marshmellows tho :D
The goats live on the roof. You can see it's covered in grass. They live up there!!!!

Everyone that went! We got amazing ice cream at the Goats on the Roof place...So much fun!!!

It was a great trip. The only trip we took this year. First time camping in years. Had a total blast and hope to be able to do it again very soon!!!

December?

It's hard to try and want to decorate for Christmas on a day like today. I always do it on December 1. But it will have to wait for another rainy day.


The sky is always so blue. Maybe it's just because I always see grey...but it's just..so BLUE, more blue than any other city I've lived in.

Sunny in Vancouver??

It seems when the sun is out here, it is COLD. The clouds protect us....but soak us.. There is no winning.The mountains as seen from Burrard St...It's so rare to see them as they are ALWAYS cloud covered

Olympic Madness!

What was supposed to be a simple day buying some mittens for a friend turned into INSANITY when it turned out that the Olympics HQ was having a special event. I should have known when I passed the DJ spinning beside the escalator.....

and yes, that is Kurt Browning.

Mike Fisher

Not the player! My fish!

In other exciting news, I got two jobs. One in the Canucks team store, and one with the in house entertainment doing camera assist and training on the graphics! Nice.

My heel seems to be finally healing. I went to an awesome physio who worked magic. I hope to be running for Monday and then the big race is Sunday
Whee!

Ups and Downs

So I quit my job and I've never felt better. Looking for stuff in the TV zone. Hoping and praying something happens sooner rather than later. But the time away is good for perspective and it's not Starbucks, which is what matters!


Woefully working on wedding plans. David is super understanding and knows how much I don't want a wedding. So he's letting me not do as much as I want. So it's a super chill wedding. I'm either going to wear my prom dress






which is on the left, it comes with a white wrap. or I'm waiting until the spring for a the light flowy spring white dresses :D. No stupid wedding dresses for me! One of my bridesmaids insisted on taking me to some dress shops and I hated it. I hate big heavy dresses. I'm not doing it. It's MY wedding. I don't have to do anything I don't want to. David agrees and that's all that matters.





Anyway. The weather here has been rain. I had no idea how much it rained here....you hear about it but you just don't get it until it happens ALL the time. The worst is the mist...it just mists! And also it doesn't just rain. You always have to have an umbrella b/c a sunny day can just turn to rain in 5 minutes. What a weird city.

I'm halfway through my running course. I have something wrong with my heel though. It's concerning. I'm going to try to go see my physio in Victoria about it. I have a race to run December 5 so I want to be able to do that. It's super important to me. It's raising money for the Salvation Army to feed families this Christmas. I've been so blessed to have had nothing but amazing Christmases with my family for the past 24 years, full of food, gifts, love and fun. But some people don't even get to have the food part, which is sad. I always said I want my first race to be one that matters, and to me this does.

David and I are spending Christmas in Vancouver this year. Just the two of us :o. It's going to be a big change. But the first on the road to our life together. We're hoping to get back to Victoria before the month is over. Sure do miss that place....and ALL the people.

We've also decided that the church we were attending is no longer for us. There is no community, it's moving to a mega-church feel, I absolutely do not agree on what the money I'm supposed to give each week is going to, and the small groups are just too tightly controlled and so forced. So we're on the hunt! The church we went to last week was definitely not us. While in a beautiful building with fantastic worship music, they use fill in the blank forms during the sermon...the pastor blows through the passage and slows down to fill in the blank...and EVERYONE fills in the blank...it's super creepy...and they have their Christmas mission being a ballgown exchange.....it just flabbergasted me. It's a super yuppie church..PASS.

So we'll see what church we find this week. I'm stuck at home all day waiting for UPS to deliver my Itouch...and resting this heel :(

Loves!
Me.