Dark coulds, heavy rains, cold winds and slow bus drivers.  It feels good to be back in Vancouver.

Reiko and I braved the elements to stop by my work in Richmond today where we picked up a camcorder battery ordered 10 days ago from a vendor on eBay.  I cannot believe the amount of time it took to receive that package … it was supposed to arrive 2 days before Reiko did, not two days after.  I’ll leave the obligatory positive feedback (considering how the battery is brand new and in better shape than I expected), but I will have to make mention the long ship time.  It wouldn’t have been so bad if the seller would have said something like “I only ship on Friday”.

Oh well.

From work we made our way to Downtown Vancouver to play tourist, and it was lots of fun.  After a great lunch at Tsunami Sushi (best $35 I’ve spent all week), we shopped for souvenirs and visited every store that caught our eye.  I even managed to find Reiko a cute squirrel stuffed animal at a shop in Gastown.

I know that all good things must come to an end, but I really wish Reiko could stay in Canada longer.  It always seems that we say goodbye a few hours after saying hello ….

I’ll pist some of today’s pictures in the “Vancouver 2007″ album.  Hopefully I can do this before too long.