Quick Post
Friday, November 17, 2006
Another delayed post...a summary of events for the last 2 weeks is as follows:
1. Attended an NHL game - Canucks vs Blues (November 17th)
2. Brians car (the desert storm) was stollen (November 18th)
This was crazy - we went to the mall, parked the car and then upon returning to its location some 2 hours later we came to find it not there. There is still no word about where the car might be or where it went.
3. Vancouver - a place that eveyone tells me never has snow had a big snow storm yesterday (November 26th). There was between 20-50cm of snow in or around the greater Vancouver area. I think they have 1 maybe 2 snowplows for the entire area, and they were on the highway this morning...I shall leave with some pics:
A view looking out at the mountains from Horeshoe Bay
Brian and I went for a cruise in the snow - this is what the streets looked like
Another snowy street
Another shot of the mountains
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3 Day Weekend: SUPER Duper!
Friday, November 10, 2006
Another week over and another weekend looms...except this one is a long one - BAM.
This week I continued to learn about all the responsibilities that come with working with the DCP Rock Anchor crew, a lot to learn but it is all interesting information. Weather this week has been very wet, I think there was one dry day of the 5. Each of the other 4 days were listed as "heavy rainfall" with something like 50mm falling each day - so much rain. I am used to cold dry winters of Fredericton - cold but sunny.
Rain Water flowing thru a culvert.I figured today (monday - day off work) that I would go for an adventure. I knew that somewhere around the immediate area there were filming locations for smallville (Superman TV show) thus I decided to go looking for them. The "downtown" smallville is filmed in a place called Cloverdale which is part of Surrey, East of Vancouver. After I found this and took some pics I went looking for the Kent Farm - home of Superman. After getting into the back roads consisting of all farms I finally found it. I am officially a nerd. Not sure if they get many people taking pictures but from the couple of people walking their dogs along the path they probably thought I drove from NB to get these pics.
The Kent Farm - this is where superman lives in the TV show
Entrance to the Kent Farm - a common scene from the TV Show
Cloverdale Theatre - Home of the Talon from the TV show
After the excitment of seeing Smallville locations I went on another tour around the area to see what else what there was around the area. The Rodeo Exhibition Grounds seemed to be the main attraction - as the surrounding area is all farming and horse stables it seemed fitting that this was here. Along with the Rodeo there was the "Fraser Downs Race Track" - not sure how often horses race here or if any big races attend it still seemed like a pretty large complex.
Entrance to Cloverdale Exhibition Ground
The Stetson Bowl Stadium - I assume Rodeo Type Activities take place here.
This sign reads "Flamingos & Buzzards Rentals"...?
I think I shall stop the post here as I am going to get a hair cut and run some errands. Until the next Post...
-R
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