This past week was Reading Week, ‘spring break’ for us university students. Luckily, my courses are structured so that I didn’t have a ton of work to do over the break. This provided the perfect opportunity for my sister to come and visit me! 🙂 Here’s some of what we got up to.
Doing
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- Catfe
- Vancouver Aquarium
- Annhiliation advanced screening
- Nitobe Memorial Garden (Japanese garden) @ UBC
- Book of Kells facsimile @ UBC’s Rare Books and Special Collections
- Granville Island with our uncle
Eating
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Aussie pie, mashed potatoes, mushy peas + gravy @ Peaked Pies Kokoro (ramen)
- Burgoo (comfort food)
- Gyoza Bar (Japanese tapas + Vietnamese bao)
- Peaked Pies (Australian meat pies)
- Wildbeest (farm to table local restaurant)
- Cactus Club (chain, but the one with a nice view of the water and Stanley Park)
Shopping
- Uniqlo
- Daiso
- Muji
- Wildlife Thrift
- Frank and Oak
Birthday Gifts
Ash absolutely spoiled me this week. I can’t thank her enough ❤ In celebration of my birthday, she bought me books that I selected at Banyen Books (wonderful shop with loads of books you won’t easily find elsewhere, covering all sorts of intriguing areas of spirituality and religion – they bill themselves as “Canada’s most comprehensive metaphysical bookstore, offering a broad spectrum of resources from humanity’s spiritual, healing, and earth wisdom traditions” but it’s less of a hippie store than you might imagine.) and The Paper Hound (a cozy new and used bookshop “favour[ing] the classic, curious, odd, beautiful, visually arresting, scholarly, bizarre, and whimsical”).
- Faerie Magazine #41, The Medieval Issue
- The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
- The River of Heaven: The Haiku of Bashou, Buson, Issa, and Shiki by Robert Aitken
- The Noble Eightfold Path by Bhikku Bodhi
- The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld – a gift from my parents (acquired by my sister), the hardcover edition of this book had been on my to purchase list for a couple years 😊
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