Pineapples and Pumpkins

As you know, from past posts, I was not happy about returning to Vancouver, but my first weekend back in town was a lot of fun.

I woke up Saturday morning and did four loads of laundry (less than I originally expected). After that I met up with Tina for our ritual walk to Marpole and coffee at Starbucks.

Since Saturday was such a nice day (and quite warm), I decided to dress somewhat Hawaiian. I wore a short sleeve top, capri pants and flip flops to show off my tan (which is fading fast), a puka shell necklace and a flower in my hair. Ok I stuck out like a sore thumb, but I was still in Hawaiian mode, and not ready accept the fact that it was Autumn and I was back in Vancouver.

Afterwards I headed over to my parents house for dinner and to give them their presents. I bought them some chocolate covered macadamia nuts and a package of Kona coffee - there is more, but they won't see it until Christmas. I decided to purchase Andrews birthday present in Hawaii: I bought him a Tiki Money God bottle opener and a Hawaiian shirt.

After dinner, Tina and I hooked back up - neither of us could be believe someone was actually free on a Saturday night. Tina needed to buy some things from London Drugs, so we made our way to Kerrisdale. After London Drugs we headed to the Kerrisdale Starbucks, where I purchased my second Pumpkin Spice latte of the day - I had to make up for the Starbucks issue at LAX (will be explained in monster blog entry on Hawaii).

While chatting away at Starbucks, I had a revelation, a Halloween revelation. I finally figured out what I was going to be for Halloween - Batgirl. Fun and functional, since I need to dress up like a super hero for work, so my costume works for both next weekend's parties and our Halloween promotion at work. Tina and decided to get together again the next day and go costume hunting.

I returned home just after 11pm, but stayed up till 3am watching Poltegeist. That is one of the best parts of Halloween - there is a plethora of cheesy horror films on TV.

Early Sunday afternoon, Tina and I started our costume hunt at Bazaar and Novelty (I love this store), where I found my bat ears. After that we headed to Value Village, where we both found all the things needed for our respective costumes.

While waiting in the extremely long line-up for the changing rooms, Lisa called Tina and invited us over to carve pumpkins.

I was definitely missing Hawaii last weekend, but all the Halloween themed fun took my mind off it, a little bit.