kristie and i drove up to vancouver, bc for a day trip. generally at border crossings, i tend to overshare with the border patrol.

border patrol: what's the nature of your visit?
me: we plan on eating and getting some hair done.
border patrol: you're driving all this way for food? [said with good nature]
me: well, we'll have lunch and dinner. two complete meals.
border patrol: do you have any alcohol or weapons?
me: no.
border patrol: no pepper spray?
me: no, but i do have a small pocket knife on my key chain.

border patrol man has pretty much been laughing at me the entire time...on the inside. but i believe in the "tell them everything" method to prevent being detained and searched, and so far, it's worked. kristie laughed at me too. on the way back, it was pretty much the same thing when we were asked me we were bringing anything back. i listed one egg tart, one cream puff, and some office supply stuff i purchased at daiso...the greatest two-canadian dollar store. the man was like, too much information, but he did wave us on through.

we had dim sum for lunch with chris and jenny and afterwards, we sat at the salon with kristie for a little bit. since we knew she'd be there for at least 5 hours, we walked over to the two-canadian dollar store and to the new aberdeen mall. the mall is very hong kong mall-esque and has fountains that play "shows" like those bellagio fountains in the vegas. we walked around some more in the mall and then paused to have a snack break. we stopped by yaohan before heading back to the salon and crashing in their waiting area. dinner was good and cheap sushi in vancouver with a post-dinner walk around some bc coastline. i was shown this humongoid public pool near the beach. it's gigantic and it's totally for public use. everytime i visit canada, i find more reasons to like it.