Beautiful yarn store, lots of tempting textures and colours, and a very friendly, informative and knowledgeable young lady just finishing a really cool cowl - she had plans to put the pattern and picture on her web site, so if you'd like to knit it - go ahead! http://ginabrownsyarn.blogspot.com/
The next place we hit was Urban Yarns http://www.urbanyarnsblog.com/ where we sort of got lost in the joy of knitting - yarns, pattern books and magazines galore. I lost my good girl alter ego who was clutching my wallet shut, and bought a terrific book - Spud and Chloe at the Farm. You can see this book and other cool patterns on their website - http://www.spudandchloe.com/blog/ .
I know some of you are drooling now - too bad.
Anyway, that was it for our YSC, so next we wandered up the street to find a place to get lunch, when we were shocked by a big bang. Across the street, an old geezer (even older than me) had crashed the front of his collector yellow roadster two-seater open top into the back of a SUV, and when he backed out from under the SUV, his grill caught on the bumper and tore away part of it. So what does the old guy do? He gets out of his car, picks up the piece of bumper that got yanked off, and after studying it closely, gets back in his dinky little car and drives off. But not before the two clever Vigilantes got his licence number. We crossed the street and waited until the young lady who was driving the SUV came back, and explained to her what happened. She was so pleased when we told her we had the licence plate number, and couldn't get over our good Samaritanism. I suppose he took the piece of her bumper with him because it had incriminating yellow paint on it. Hope he gets charged with hit and run and ends up in jail. Bad words follow here.
Anyway, after that we bought our most delicious paninis and headed to the beach for lunch and a long walk, topped off with an icy treat.
On the way home, something else made me wish I had found the camera before I left. They say if you live long enough, you'll see it all, and this was probably the first and only time we will ever see this - a car up ahead of us on Marine Drive obviously was being driven by someone in the process of moving. On top of the car was a cardboard box, not tied on, and inching it's way to the edge. And hanging out of the driver's window, was the driver's arm, and at the end of the driver's arm was his hand, holding the top of an office chair, which was clipping along at the same pace as the car. We waited breathlessly to see what would happen - the box falling off, the chair escaping, or Vancouver's finest pulling him over. Fortunately for him, none of that happened, unless it occurred after he turned off on a side street.
- Breakfast - Toast and Coffee
- Morning Snack - a special category for our Vancouver Yarn Store Crawl - a better than good but not the most excellent fruit/cornmeal muffin and really really good coffee from a great little cafe - Coco Et Olive at 3476 W Broadway. Really nice decor, we sat at a weathered yellow picnic style table (avec chairs, not the bench kind where you have to step over the seat to sit donw), and our muffins were served on very pretty delicate china saucers. It's worth a stopover if you're in the vicinity. However, I just googled this place and it seems the owner is very rude and maybe if we had known this, we wouldn't have gone there. Oh well. We didn't see the owner, and we thought it was very nice.
- Lunch - From the Mix Bakery on 4430 West 10th Avenue. http://www.mixthebakery.com/ We ordered delicious grilled panini sandwiches (I got Chimayo Chicken, Marina got some kind of Turkey), made on the best Artisan Bread, plus an ice cold orange flavored sparkling water drink, and drove to Spanish Banks Beach, where we lunched with great joy on a shady bench in front of the beautiful Pacific ocean
- Snacks - Orange popsicle - at the beach, Diet Pepsi
- Dinner - Spaghetti and Meat Sauce - at home
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