We saw five films: The White Ribbon, Mid-August Lunch, Kimjonilia, Everyone Else and For a Son. My favourite by far was was Mid-August Lunch, we didn't get all the hype around White Ribbon and Everyone Else was okay, but seemed kind of pointless, although it had one of those endings that I love.....
Anyway by last night, I was exhausted. With all the running around seeing films and meeting friends, I was done. Our last movie (White Ribbon) was at 9:00 pm last night. We headed for a snack and looked up how long the movie was - 144 minutes. Really? That meant that when all was said and done, we were climbing into bed around 1:00 am.... targeting the 9:00 am ferry this morning. We made it but I crashed for over two hours when we finally got home this afternoon.
I also must comment on this: what have they done to Granville Street?! On Saturday we round the corner at Robson and Granville for our first movie and stopped dead in our tracks. We thought we had gone the wrong way. We stood there stunned for a minute, and realized what was wrong. They ripped out all the trees!! You can see all the way to the bridge and it's bizarre. I'm hoping that the orange barrel things mean they will be replacing them, but it was super sad to see.
Anyway, tomorrow is the big day. I felt so elated on the ferry, I actually annoyed Brad with my smiles and outpouring of happiness at returning to Victoria. My first battle will be sharing a bathroom with him, we haven't shared a bathroom since March 2008 and he has to shave in the morning.
3 comments:
Oh don't even get me started about Granville Street. It looks horrible. If they don't replace the trees by the olympics I'm going to be pissed off! I hope the new trees aren't super weenie.
Glad you liked the VIFF and good luck tomorrow!
I hate Granville now. All the character is sapped away. Even the restaurants and bars suck these days...
Sharing the bathroom might be like riding a bike, it will all come back. :)
Good luck today (and congratulations one more time)!
Sad confession: I had never been to Granville Street before this weekend (except in the dark one time when I had no idea where we were), so I didn't know there used to be trees. I just figured it was a dusty old theatre district street.. Now that I know there used to be trees lining the sides, I'm sad. What a difference trees would make!
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