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Chateau Frontenac
Randy and I are headed to Montreal and Quebec City this week for our 2nd anniversary! We’ve never been so anyone who has recommendations for us, we’re listening! Our French is a little (a lot) rusty, but we plan to use a lot of pointing and gesturing.
Last year we were in Vancouver, “the Couve” for our first anniversary. I think we have some sort of Canadian fetish.
Tags: anniversary, Canada, Chateau Frontenac, eh, Montreal, Quebec City, vancouver
So a few days ago I posted about my anniversary trip to Vancouver, “the couve.” I highly recommend visiting if you ever get a chance. If I had a visa I would even think of moving there! But anyway, one of my favorite things about this city was its shopping. Shocking for me I know. But seriously, there were some really great eclectic shops we discovered that sold a lot of things made by local Canadian designers. One of my favorite stores was Militant Penguin. Not only is the name awesome, but the cute and funky tshirts and jewelry they sold inside were awesome too. My husband and I each ended up buying a shirt there. His had the Militant Penguin logo on it with the penguin holding a big AK47 and mine had a black tree with bicycles hanging from it.
Another one of my favorite stores that Randy pretty much had to pull me out of was The Regional Assembly of Text. They had all of my favorite things. Antique typewriters everywhere, decorative paper and cards, stationary, handmade books, journals, stamps – any of these would make the cutest gifts for someone! Plus there was this little teeny room called The Lowercase Gallery you could go into that had all of these handmade books and zines that were so pretty to look through. I wanted to buy everything, but ended up leaving with 10 handmade postcards.
The last of my favorite stores was called F as in Frank. It was a store unlike anything I’d ever seen. I feel like we should have something like it in the Mission here in SF but I have yet to discover one. It was all 80′s clothes and accessories in great condition. On first glance you’d think it was just some hip boutique store. They also had these re-purposed 80s t-shirts that they made into knit dresses. I tried one on and it was super cute but made me feel a little too much like Punky Brewster. I decided I’m officially too old to pull off that much funk. They had a ton of neon sunglasses and boomboxes around. Randy loved all of the old sports jerseys and team jackets. My all time favorite thing about this store wasn’t anything they sold though, it was their door. It was amazing! It was all made of silverware that had been welded together to form a gate out of spoons and knives, then spray painted a dull silver color. Now THAT’S creative.
If you happen to make it to Vancouver try to visit Main Street where most of these shops are. It’ll be a nice break from your Twilight stalking 
K: Robby! Robby? Where’s Robby?!
Tags: anniversary, Shopping & Fashion, vancouver
So in keeping with the matrimonial theme today, I thought I’d share a few pics from our first year anniversary trip to Vancouver we took a few weeks ago. We’d never been before and always wanted to visit so we took a long weekend and flew up there to celebrate 365 days of marriage. Of course Jack came too. He came with us on our honeymoon, why wouldn’t he celebrate 1 year with us too? Vancouver is an amazing city. Not as Canadian as I had hoped, only a few “eh’s” were heard and an “aboot,” but still cool. We walked all over the city since it’s not very big and had our official anniversary dinner at Rodney’s in Yaletown one night. This place is significant b/c 1. It is the best seafood place in Vancouver and 2. RPattz ate there! No, not when we were there, but when they were filming New Moon. If only we’d gone just a couple months earlier! Blasted anniversary date! I’m sure that’s exactly what my husband would’ve wanted to do for our anniversary, stalk Twilight characters. Yeah yeah. Here are some pics:
PS: I had always wondered why paper was chosen as the first anniversary gift, now i know. You’re poor as crap after the wedding and are still paying it off a year later. The only thing you can afford is paper. So my gift to the hubby was a vintage Vancouver postcard – I bought at this awesome paper shop called The Regional Assembly of Text – with a sweet message on the back. I’m sure there are more creative paper gifts to give, but I thought a postcard was appropriate given the circumstances. His gift to me, the trip
I definitely have more to post about Vancouver, but i’ll save that for another post. To be continued!
K: Jack’s face in that picture literally screams “WTF are you doing. Put me down.” He has a very Stewey-like look from “Family Guy.” And sigh, RPattz. I still lament not seeing him in NYC. But I figured there were too many set stalking crazies around him as it was, and I didn’t want to add to the mosh pit. I’m a married girl after all, I have to keep my priorities in line. But if, say for instance, he were to ever approach me and confess his undying love to me, I’d make like a spidermonkey, latch onto his back and fly to the nearest Chapel of Love. Well, me and probably every other 12 year old on the planet.
Tags: anniversary, Canada, Twilight, vancouver, wedding
