Lionel and I were going to go to SuperStore today but since we’re leaving for about a week on Wednesday it wouldn’t make much sense to buy fresh things now. We had to get out of the house because they shut off the power from 8am to 8pm for maintenance. Lionel had hot water, but it was cold when I got in! Yikes! And almost no water pressure…

Well, we got off at Sasmat to bring back the books to the West Point Gray library, then we went to the Tea store on 10th. It was great! They had all kinds of tea, and you could buy either 50g or 100g quantities. The prices were better than the store on Broadway as well. We got Jazz Vanilla Rooibos (100g) which is LOVELY - it’s got vanilla and bits of hazelnut in it, and it tastes like dessert even without sugar. FANTASTIC! We also got 50g each of creamy earl gray, which has more bergamot oil than regular earl gray, and also some Irish Breakfast which is made with Assam black tea instead of Ceylon black tea like English Breakfast, so it’s supposed to be stronger. It cost $2 more per 50g for decaf, so we just went with caffeinated.

Then came the horror… we walked down 10th Avenue. 10th Avenue with its 20 foot hedges creeping onto the 3 foot sidewalk and HUNDREDS of hornets the whole way! Lionel had to coax me forward. I was soooo scared…. stupid phobia. I felt like I had an exam that I never studied for… you know that adrenaline rush? Shaky all over… quite embarrassing. To get past some really bad places where they were hovering all over the ground and on the hedges I had to close my eyes and Lionel led me through. I don’t think he liked that much, heh. He made the observation that I didn’t get stung once on the way through, and I seem to be able to walk through all the buzzing if I have my eyes closed, so maybe I’m getting used to it. I wouldn’t want to do it again though! I felt shaky and sick for a few minutes afterwards, heh. I’m such a wuss.

Anyway, after that we had a nice walk down Broadway and had lunch at Adeleas, a Mexican restaurant. I had pork enchiladas and Lionel had a chicken and mushroom quesadilla, but of course we split both so we could both try it, heh. They both had ancho sauce on them, which I didn’t like at first because it’s an interesting combination, but in the end it was quite good. The meal was mostly meat and cheese, some vegetables would have been nice, but I liked it. It came with an appetizer of freshly fried nachos - WOW! SO GOOD! Very thin and delicious… and freshly made salsa. Yum!

After that we walked to Granville to get the 98-B-line to the central library downtown, for a total walk of 5 km :) The library architecture was breathtaking. I should have brought my camera. There were 6 floors and everything you could think of, although I don’t think I’d go there again because it’s just too big… it’s so hard to find things! You can order 50 books/year free of charge to be delivered to the nearest branch, so I think I’ll do that. I thought looking through the shelves would be nice, but there are thousands and thousands of books on many floors! Impossible! I got some books on card making because the scrapbook books weren’t very good, and some books on how to start running. Lionel looked up some computer graphic books but didn’t take them out in the end.

We then head back home and stopped at Blenz to get an Iced Mocha - wow, rich and delicious. I hate to think how much cream went in it, LOL. After we were home for about an hour the power finally came back on! We read a little then headed off to bed. Overall a good day I think…. except for the hornets 8O