Jen and I arrived at the Irish Heather at 20:00 for the welcoming of 2 CouchSurfers from back East (Toronto and Montreal), along with several other CSers and Jamie & James of the Vancouver Social Club. Jen, just arriving directly from her artisan bakery, brought bags and bags of bread for everyone to take home at the end of the evening. She had made friends with the bus driver of the 351 Vancouver bus doing the 18:30 run because she offered him four cinnamon buns. The driver was overjoyed apparently and told her that she could ride for free for the next 5 years! This story got me thinking about working in a deli so that I could offer the same bus driver some ham and cheese. Wouldn't it be awesome to have a bakery/deli party on the bus?!
I was reading profiles of the 2 CSers, Damien and Austin, this morning and realised that they had both stayed at Kenny Lozowski's place while in Edmonton too! In addition, they are friends with Jeffrey Chow, the guy who plays the viola with the UBC Orchestra whom I was trying to meet up with at the performance of "Le Nozze di Figaro". Made me realize how small out CS community really is. This evening's gathering made me realize just how fantastic this whole CS idea really is and how nice it is to be a member of this social community!
Among our gathering, a young woman from Holland named Charlotte joined us for a lively discussion of her travels. Funny man Stewart and his sweetheart Janet (also from Toronto) made a stop here in Vancouver to check out our scene. Stewart, 27, who has never been outside of the country before, told me that he had worked very hard, saved every penny, and was leaving for New Zealand tomorrow with Janet for a few weeks before heading up to Australia to live there for a year. They were staying at a hostel in town, and out of our shock and dismay, we introduced them to our CouchSurfing community.
Tonight was the first time I met Jen's boyfriend, Derik. After hearing so much about him, I could finally put a pretty face to his name. =)
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