Wussup guys?
Calgary and Shisha (sp)On the first day we drove down to Calgary. There we met up with some Wushu friends, had sushi, which was quite good. They had 2 different types of Tobiko (shrimp eggs, I believe): red and green. It was very unique to what we have in Edmonton. Highly recommended, if only I can remember the name of the restaurant. It'll come to me.
Shisha was the plan later that night. An we stopped by this Shisha bar around 11:30 after watching the Calgary Ji Hong Wushu demonstration rehersal. Shisha (, which I'm probably not even spelling right,) is basically inhaling pure nicotine and none of the crap you'd get with cigarettes (cyanide, formaldehyde, and other carcinogens). Usually one Shisha is good enough for 2 people, so with four of us, we ordered two (Mike didn't do shisha, it was our other friend that was doing it). Unfortuantly I made the mistake of confusing the shisha menu with a drink menu and ordered another shisha. Then our friend left so we were stuck with 3 shishas between 3 people. Boy, did I feel pretty sick when I got back to Wilson's house. Almost puked. Never again will I pick up a Shisha menu, ever... Well the Shishas in Calgary are closing down because of the bylaw which prohibts smoking inside. Damn bylaws....
Mike's incessant snoring and sleeping
One of the things I discovered while on the roadtrip is that Mike snores quite loudly. Unfortunately they aren't at a regular pace either, so its hard to get adjusted to it. Some are loud and some are barely audible. I don't think irregular snoring is a good thing. Perry said something about really loud snoring be a potential life threatener, so Mike should probably get that checked out.
But anyways the solution to this problem was to, a) sleep before mike sleeps or b) drink a hell lot of alcohol and pass out in the midst of the snoring. Seeing as the early days of the road trip involved no booze, solution a was the only valid option. The thing is, Mike falls asleep instantly at times, making it impossible to fall asleep before the guy. So, the first few days of the trip we had to kick him to wake him up and prey that we fell asleep before he started snoring again. This cycle was repeated until we could fall asleep. Although sometimes we'd wake up to it again. In that case we would just repeat. Poor Mike...
The night before we were suppose to head to Vancouver from Calgary (with a stop at a capsite near Kamloops), Les gave me a set of earplugs, which i kept through the entire trip. Being the only driver, it was important to get a good night's rest before driving 10 or so hours. I wish I kept those earplugs the entire trip, but I lost them the day after. Stupid me.
When camping, Perry had to sleep with Mike in his tent. You can imagine what happened, there were other noises too, but we'll leave it at that. I was to pair up with Les in my tent, but the fracking cars kept driving by keeping me awake, so I changed my sleeping place to my car. I asked Les if he had a good night sleep on my Air matress. The damn thing took me an hour to inflate I swear, but if not for Mike's ingenious idea to use my hair dryer all would have been lost. Apparently I under inflated the Air matress so it was unbalanced and Les had rolled towards the door and off the Air matress. Never will I use a Air matress again.
I also found out that I toss and turn quite a bit when I sleep. When Perry and I had to share a bed, apparently I turned so that i was face to face with him, with only inches between us. That was probably pretty awkward. I remember waking up and thinking, "Whoa! This is too close" and turning back the other way. Never again will I share a double bed with another, as I slept on the floor for the rest of the trip. (Well except for the last night when I took the bed to prepare for the drive back).
Vancouver Food
Damn is Vancouver sushi ever good. Its fresh and soft *drool, slurp up drool*. Anyway, two days of the 6 days we stayed in Vancouver, we stuffed ourselves full of all you can eat sushi. The first of the two was at a place called SuiShaYa (literally Water Car Store). Its probably equivalent to the Mikado in Edmonton, but All-you-can-eat for $24.95 makes it much cheaper. We stuffed ourselves pretty full that night, to the point of me getting blurred vision. Never had that before. What made it worse was the seafood in mayonaise and cheese sauce stuffed in an oyster shell. That shit was sickingly good but made you full like a mofo.
The second place we ate All-you-can-eat Sushi was at Shabusen. It also included All-you-can-eat Korean BBQ. We pigged out there and barely managed to eat everything we ordered there, as well. It left us with a full feeling, that was not a great as at Suishaya, but that was probably because we were used to stuffing ourselves at this point.
Another place I liked to eat at was Honalulu Cafe. It was cheap and fast, sorta equivalent to our Sam Wok here, except with better dishes and cleaner environment. All I ordered there was instant noodles with fried pork cutlet, luncheon meat in Tonkotsu soup base. Instant noodles never tasted so good, I swear.
Vancouver Night Life
After enjoying the night life in Vancouver, I find Edmonton even more boring than before. Well atleast my friends are here.
We went to a few clubs in the downtown area. Stone Temple, the first club we went to, was pretty hurting. Maybe because we got there at 1:00 am. But even so, the next club we went to right after Stone Temple, was The Cellar. It was pretty packed in there and they didn't play your typical club music. It was rock music. They had a house band which played stuff like the White Stripes and Foo Fighters Covers. It was awesome, apparently O'Byerns on Whyte Ave is like that too, so I'll have to check that out later.
The last club we went to was on the last day of our trip (a seperate day from the first two). It was called the Tokyo Lounge and it was packed with Asian people, mostly of Japanese and Korean decent. The dance floor was packed with crazy good dancers, making getting onto the dance floor even more intimidating that it already is. Everybody was popping and hip-hop dancing on the dance floor. I'm glad I didn't even try to dance. Mike and Les tried, only to have people clear out around them, creating what I like to call "The Void". Well props to them for trying, I didn't even stand up except to go to the washroom. There were a few girls there that sorta caught my eye, but I ended up leaving early to get some sleep for the long drive back, which I navigated by myself. Usually I'm pretty bad with directions and need people to direct me throught the streets of Vancouver. But I suppose after driving there for a week, you can get a pretty good feel of where you are going. The rest of the boys stayed behind to watch the hip-hop dance performance, which apparently only lasted 5 minutes.
Conclusion
Probably the most fun I've had the entire summer was in this one week road trip. Vancouver is so much cooler, and the fact that it has Daiso, which I spent $50 at, makes it so much cooler. I'd love to live in Vancouver, but not even the lottery will win me that dream -_-'.
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