Picnic on Granville Island.

Jennifer and I arranged to meet up on Granville Island for a picnic with other CSers, but as it often happens with us, we couldn’t find the others when we arrived, so we were left to our own devices.

We took advantage of the gorgeous sunshine and found a nice picnic bench to unpack our basket of goodies. Okay, so it wasn’t a basket per say, but a shopping bag as we had bought our fresh food from the farmers’ market on the island, but work with me here! Jen brought with her some sliced baguettes, ham, and an apple. I brought the maple cheddar cheese, German meat loaf, Okanagan red prosciutto, raspberry almond Copenhagen, and a bottle of Maple Cream Ale and Honey Lager from Granville Island’s very own brewery.

Good food with a best friend to share a laugh with on a beautiful day... it doesn’t get any better than this.

We moved on to the Waterfall Building designed by Vancouver’s very own architect, Arthur Erickson, and browsed around the art gallery there. Our trek on our two legs moved us further west along West Fourth to Videomatica where Jen had found a rare movie she was looking for. With a cold bottle of green tea in hand, we drifted along to Vanier Park and found a nice grassy hilltop overlooking English Bay to park our bottoms and rest our legs.

I had a movie called “2 Days in Paris” to catch at Festival Cinemas, and she was meeting up with a CSer named Dave, so we split ways in the evening, but found ourselves back together again by coincidence, catching the same bus home.

It was perfect.