Chili pepper lights

The weather hasn't been great lately - and that's putting it mildly! In practice, this means that I've been waiting for a while now to do some outdoor activities. I'm trying to make the best out of this situation - the other day I went to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's Classical Chinese Garden in Chinatown and learned a lot during the guided tour - but it can be so frustrating sometimes. Luckily enough, there are moments that make it all worthwhile.

In the last couple of days, I've met Dean downtown and we went to local language schools to drop off his resume and cover letter. Along the way, there was time for coffee and, as soon as Anne-Marie was done with work, she would come and join us for dinner.

Yesterday, we had a very special lunch - Japadog or the Japanese/improved version of the hot dog - and in the evening, we shared a respectable amount of wings at the Famous Warehouse, home to these awesome chili pepper lights. Since it was only $0.25 per wing, this could have been a cheap night out but it wasn't because I also drank a respectable amount of tequila shots and honey lager.

Be that as it may, it was really great fun. And that's hanging out with Dean and Anne-Marie for you - always enjoyable, always enriching and always a pity to have to say goodbye at the end of the evening. So much so that I'm sometimes thankful that the weather sucks and I can't go and climb mountains or hop on a ferry to Victoria...