LIFE LATELY: Canada, eh?

I drove up to Vancouver last weekend to visit some friends, and oh boy was it a whirlwind couple of days. I'd never actually been to Canada, so I thought it was about time. I've had my passport for a couple years now but my ex never got around to getting his so we never drove up.

Now I had no excuse not to go, so I made the trip.


 Laura, Rachel, and Russ took me on quite the tour of their fair city - including a ghost town, a downtown garage sale for homeless people, Vancouver's own version of Pike Place, and a couple of neat little cafes - one of which we saw some local music.

I asked Laura to take me to this ghost town called Ioco (short for Imperial Oil Company) after seeing a video she made last month. While the place wasn’t necessarily haunted with the ghosts of homicides, it just seemed haunted with the past and what could have been. It was so sad to see these buildings just deserted, but oddly optimistic and beautiful. People once lived here, and now they didn’t.