(the madge really knew what she was singing about there)
i feel like since canada day, the days went by doubly fast. i had to drive julia to a volunteering event on canada day, and while she was there, managed to take some ultra-awesome photos that i'm going to blow up and use in our gallery. also stocked up on purdy's chocolates. then for the rest of day mom and i just hung around the house and didn't do too much...enjoyed the nice weather and watched a bunch of episodes of her latest asian drama on dvd.
wednesday morning i went to wake up julia for our trip to victoria, and she greets me with "i got accepted to u of t." i decided to do the most annoying adult thing i could possibly do, and told her to make the decision on her own. meanwhile, we went about getting ready for going away for the day, as planned. we were driving to the ferry terminal and julia wanted a fourth opinion from alex so we called him at work. alex gave her some pros and cons, and mom continued to drive towards the ferry. finally at the very last minute before we went on the ferry terminal road, julia decided she really wanted to go to u of t and not uvic. so we veered off in the direction of stanley park and the aquarium! at 10:00am as our ferry was sailing away, we set foot into the aquarium.
i swear, if/when i have kids, i would get annual memberships to this place. the otters never disappoint. with the new camera, i went crazy snapping photos of them. we were also lucky to get in line and see the three-week-old baby beluga. so cute! we caught a feeding too! apparently they only feed for 3-17 seconds at a time - how efficient. belugas also sleep with one eye open! they're able to shut off only half of their brain to make sure they can watch out for predators, swim without hitting things, etc. in the end we caught the dolphin show where continuous shooting mode came in very handy...and i was a happy camper when we left. i love the aquarium. had lunch at the teahouse with a gorgeous view - but the sunsets there would be their claim to fame, so i'll have to catch that another time. on our drive home we stumbled across the lululemon outlet - not that great.
thursday i went with jenn to try on dresses in vancouver. she had three top contenders but then kicked out my fave because it was too mermaid-y that it was hard to walk in. i loved that one! we stopped by ikea on the way home, where jenn picked up a bunch of random things. then julia and i bummed around the house together setting up her new macbook (which i'm using right now to blog), and read through her u of t stuff together. i can't believe she's going to be so close!! i have another victim to drag to stupid things i want to check out.
today i had a meeting at aeroplan, which was reallllly good. i learned a lot and realized how much we can do with them so i'm pumped to go back to work on monday. dropped off my present for my flute teacher (loooong overdue) and came home to pick up julia. went to white rock to have fish and chips on the beach with a booster juice, then checked out the archives. i got two prints that'll be done later, and one that they had on hand for much cheaper because it was already printed.
i can't believe my vacation is over! :(
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