Check This Out · Seven Day Weekend

On our last day in Montreal, DH brought me here:

I wasn’t due to buy anything, but he insisted to replace my five-month-old-third-party-lens that got damaged in Boracay.

See what this baby can do:

The photo above was a night shot taken from our hotel balcony in Vancouver. See that red circle up there? That was the bridge connecting to this little island, and I wanted to test how far my lens would go. So I zoomed it and this is what I got:

Gee, I can actually count the white lane markings on the road! And I took this hand held in low light condition. That’s what the Image Stabilizer does for you; it reduces camera shake especially in low light situation.

I magnified the photo above in Photoshop. See the details? Oh I feel so blessed being with someone who supports my passion.

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As promised. Here are some photos from Vancouver. Had our luck changed here? You tell me. On our first night, we went out for a walk to 7-11 to buy water and sandwich dinner. Little did we know that while we were out, the fire alarm at the hotel set off. When we got back, we saw a team of firefighters at the hotel lobby.

11012008002 — *[The boys with a real fireman. These guys were so nice they gave our kids a firefighter stickers]*

Fortunately, there was no fire but just a glitch in a fire alarm system. Unfortunately, they shut off the elevator…. which means, we had to use the stairs — from the ground level up to the 15th floor!

11022008297 — *[that’s the hotel crew carrying the key to the fire escape]*

11022008296 — *[the twins were the first to reach our floor. They were already resting when I reached it. tell me about age difference]*

Anyway, here are the other stuff:

lr-img_3299 — *[Our hotel room has a balcony and the kids love staying there]*

lr-img_3330 — *[Like in Montreal, our hotel in Vancouver is walking distance to the commercial center]*

lr-img_33261 — *[Hold it! We are NOT taking the bus. We will all WALK!]*

lr-img_3318 — *[Vancouver will host the 2010 Summer Olympic, thus the countdown. It says there 467 days to go and six hours, four minutes and 33 seconds]*

[me and the Ewoks, errr, my kids…. hey, they’re wearing new shirts! FYI: the kids’ luggage finally arrived, though only three days left before the vacation ends. Anyway, no more laundry for me]

[A nice lady offered to take picture of the family. This is one of two family pictures we have during the entire vacation. The other one was taken at Quebec train station]

lr-img_3355 — *[No snow in Vancouver but it rains a lot]*

lr-img_3500 — *[photo with a parking officer]*

lr-img_35421 — *[Here’s teaching them early: you buy your stuff, you carry your own stuff]*