Tea and Coffee hunt

It was a beautiful weekend, the husband and I went to hunt for a couple things we needed in downtown Vancouver as we couldn’t find them in Richmond ^^; We chanced upon a couple girls wearing kimonos during our hunt ^^; The couple photos I took is cropped a bit closer from the originals as the zoom feature on our Lumix LX3 is quite limited. I am still quite impressed with the amount of details on the girl’s outfits which showed up in the photos tho!

I wonder what’s the special occassion ^o^

So what warrant a trip down town other than the spectacular weather?  We ran out of our coffee capsules for our Nespresso machine acquired earlier this month, and also we were looking for some stuff to bring with us for a pending (a bit unexpected) trip ^^;

There’s been some renovation going on in the mall, and I think this place we went to is somewhat new-ish, almost couldn’t find it ^^; Asked for permission before I took some quick shots ^^

Selection of coffee machines ^^ they are made in Switzerland ^o^

Free cuppa sample coffee ^^ They have a large selection of coffee flavors which I would never have known or could imagined ^^;

Took Vivi (Mamachapp) and Betsey (Blythe) with me ^^ Vivi couldn’t make up her mind which flavor to pick! Each capsule (the little container you see sitting on the “chairs”) supposedly contains about 40 grounded coffee beans ^^ She’s wearing an outfit I made for my blythes :P For more Vivi and a couple of Blythe photos go here.

So after finding our coffee, now to look for the other stuff ^^; Came across some funny sights as we make our way to the place which might sell the particular brand of item we were looking for…  Now fess up, who bent that pole?

Vancouver sightseeing bus having a nice view of a bum suntanning… in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery downtown… ^^;

Fountain… Didn’t take photo of Gallery as it was quite severely backlit ^^;

Count down to Olympics ^^;

Saw these eagles(?) peppered around the place, decorated by different artists ^^

Another one

So at around this point in time, we found that the place which is most likely to sell the item we were hunting for has closed it’s original location o_o;;; And we have no idea where to find it’s new location ^^; In it’s place a seafood restaurant will be constructed…

So the hunt continues, blindly ^^; good exercise tho :P we walked a lot ^^; Came across the shop which my Blythe doll was named after!

Nice Kuruma ^^; Seats must be hot from being in the sun tho ^^;

There’s more skyscrapers in downtown Vancouver = sky gets covered by concrete jungle, some are offices, some residentials, rent and floor space = very expensive ^^;

Balloon artist ^O^ This guy kindly let us take a photo ^^/ I think he did a great job on Homer ^O^

Many resturants down the streets

Almost missed this one, it was rolling downhill quite fast ^^; I cropped it from the original image lol

Wandered into the public market, thinking maybe will find that item, but unfortunately no luck ^^;

Market feels kinda quiet ^^; but set up reminds me just a little of asia’s wet market for some reason ^^;

We were almost gonna give up for the day and then we bumped into one of husband’s co-worker (and family) who lives in downtown, he saved us by telling us about the OK Gift shop’s new location (YATTA!). Before we finally got to the new location of the OK Gift shop, that was where we came across the girls in Kimono ^o^!

Finally! Phew! Their new location is somewhat hidden ^^

I guess they probably get their business thru word of mouth?

After this we had to go home to feed our fur kids, the slightly ironic part of the hunt is… we found that we got the wrong brand of item which we were to bring…(due to misunderstanding on my part) Nyn-ron~~~~
Feel pretty bad for troubling my husband ^^; But at least we got the right type of coffee ^^;

Totally non related to hunt… went to take a walk in park near our area… Saw some bebe duckies!!! All pictures are cropped from original.
Mama duck: “!!!”

She quacks softly and continuously to warn the ducklings to get in the water.

Her experiences probably told her that those 2 legged aliens with a box does not swim ^^;

It’s really nice to see the ducklings this small tho! They grow up very fast ^^

Hope you enjoyed the photos! Next post will have some art, promise! (Just realised I bumped the last art entry off the page with this entry!)