Canada > My current whereabouts.

So this past weekend began with a simple enough mission. Go up to Vancouver BC and see the latest Star Trek movie. I will give my review of that later, because it is not the main focus of the story today. Instead, this will mostly be a review of the city I experienced over the past 2.5 days.

The first main experience of the trip was simply crossing into the country of Canada. Maybe the woman at the crossing was new that day, but I feel we were put through the ringer. "What is your purpose of coming into the country?" , we were asked. Thinking that simply saying tourism wouldn't have been a valid enough answer, we replied that we were going to see Star Trek with our friend Steve. "Why are you going all the way up here to see the movie?" asked the guard. Now while it may seem a little pointless to go 40 miles to see a movie when it is playing 5 minutes from your house, what business of it is hers? Maybe someone wants to see it on a bigger screen.

After I passed through the border, it was a pretty smooth trip until we got to a split in the freeway. While this wouldn't have been a big deal if my GPS hadn't been stolen last week, we instead had to deal with directions from Google Maps. While we did eventually get ourselves to where we needed to go, we instead were sent through the city of West Minster and its accompanying forest, instead of through Richmond, which was the city we wanted to go to. After finally getting to our friend Steve's apartment, we were on our way to experience the city. For dinner, I had a platter of sushi and sashimi. It was your standard raw tuna and salmon fare, though it did come with the biggest pieces of BBQ Eel I have ever had. After a filling meal of sushi, the three of us drove up to North Vancouver to see the suspension bridge, the name of which escapes me at the moment. It was at this point where all three of us were spotted by a film crew and will be staring in a movie that is soon to come out. Well, that didn't really happen, but it did look like there was some sort of filming going on.

After the short walk on the bridge, we drove to 30 screen theater in Langly to see Star Trek. Two hours later, I enjoyed the movie. However, my viewing companions weren't so happy. After that, we drove back into Vancouver, got some ice cream, and took a tour around the city.

That is all for now. In part 2, find out why I spent 8 hours wandering around a city.