| "oh, no, you did not walk through that metal detector with your cell phone in your pocket!" the tsa agent declared with some gust of almightiness. "i need you to walk over here." i was new to the world of traveling. i had not been out of the country ever since i stepped into it as a little baby. in fact, i had finally received my passport only a few weeks earlier. i was going to vancouver, and, already, my trip was turning out to be an exciting one. i went through some machine that spurted pockets of air throughout my body. it's kind of like that one device that your optometrist holds up to your eye. in this case, you were in the device. anyways, i cleared security and went on my merry way. it turned out that it was the stupid buttons on my jeans that were setting off the metal detector. i went and bought a peppermint mocha frappe from the coffee counter. i know now that pretty much every coffee place that i go to has what i want but in a different name; e.g. frappuccino, freeze, ice blended, etc. this would be the first coffee out of many on my four-day trip to vancouver. cam, carla, and i were fortunate enough to have the same days off to sojourn together. we stayed at hotel le soleil in downtown. what a koinkidink for my friend christian lived only a few blocks away. yay! 
we checked in and then headed out to eat. omg, vancouver has a plethora of restaurants to satisfy your taste buds a thousand times over. we ate indian food, filipino food, chinese food, greek food, etc., but the best was probably the european-influenced food over at bin 941 tapas parlour. in fact, we went there twice. carla and i tried to take a picture of us in the mirror hanging over us at the bar, but this was the best that we could do.  i've been back in the states only a few days, but man, i already miss the nightlife that vancouver has to offer. let me forewarn, however, that drinks over there are pretty expensive. i was introduced to some new drinks. i'm not sure if this concoction called a pretty boy is unique to this one venue i went to, but, at first, i thought it was pretty gross. after a few more sips, however, man, that was good stuff. 
an eye-opener, for sure, was at this one rave where i saw a lot of forty-something-year-old asians dressed like they're still in high school. christian refers to them as nammer moms and dads, haha! i must say, however, that i've got to give them props for not being afraid to do what they like to do. i just hope that i don't end up dancing like they do when i'm that old. 
anyone who knows me knows that i'm afraid of a lot of things, including, but not limited to, heights and water. i had to overcome both in order to visit the capilano suspension bridge. first, we had to take the seabus to go from vancouver to north vancouver. 
second, the aforementioned bridge itself, according to its website, is 450 feet across and 230 feet above the capilano river. i almost didn't want to cross it since it was so high above the ground, but then i realized i didn't want to miss the opportunity seeing how i was already there. in addition, there were all these little kids there that day, presumably on some sort of field trip. i reasoned, if they could do it, so could i! i remember thinking to myself, this is like being in crouching tiger, hidden dragon.  anyways, i cannot wait to go back and resume all of the fun that i had in vancouver. maybe i should just marry a canadian! haha! 
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