Vancouver / Julie's Wedding

Me, Julie, and Ryan

My best friend from Austin, Julie Au (who I had a crush on in Elementary and High School) got married Saturday. Not to me, of course (I know, you're all sad about this), but to this guy named Ryan. And they're going to live happily ever after. So here's some pictures I took from the wedding, as well as just some shots of me going around Vancouver (mostly in Stanley Park). It's a beautiful city. It's too bad they didn't do anything for the Fourth.

So here's an interesting story about my trip. I walked from my hotel in downtown Vancouver (Amy hooked me up with a sweet rate) to the wedding. This consequentially made me late, and i only caught the very end of things. Then I walked back to the reception/dinner, passing, along the way, a park in which a large number of homeless people were camped. There were all sorts of protest signs about welfare. I thought it would be interesting to take some footage of it, except as soon as I pulled out my camera, this drunk homeless guy ran across the street and started harrassing me. Then as I tried to leave, he wouldn't leave me along and started pushing and shoving and kicking. He only left after we ran into some cops a few block later. On one hand, I was kind of ticked because nobody has a right to tell me what to do in a public place. I asked him, don't I have a right to come join you guys. On the other hand, I had to look at things from his eyes. Here's this "well-to-do" tourist in a suit taking video of all that he has in life. I could see how he might see me as mocking him. So I can see how his pride would have been wounded and how he'd want to fight back and assert himself.

The other interesting story is that Sunday morning I had to race back to Seattle fo my flight. U had allowed myself plenty of time, but my battery wouldn't start. Then they only had one gate open at the border crossing (I guess because it was so early) and so I had to wait for almost an hour (then they opened another gate right as I got through). Then I drove amazingly fast to Seattle and I'm shocked I didn't get a ticket. I just barely caught my flight. The really cool thing was I got back in time for church.

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Posted July 05, 2003 (10:15 PM) | Comments (1)