jopesta.com | impressions and reflections » vancouver http://jopesta.com Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:00:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Traveling in Style http://jopesta.com/2010/01/25/traveling-in-style/ http://jopesta.com/2010/01/25/traveling-in-style/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:30:18 +0000 Jo http://jopesta.com/?p=616 Every time I travel with someone new, I learn a new trick.

Last time I went to Vancouver, I learned about the art of carry-on luggage.  So awesome.  There is a ridiculous amount of shoes and clothing that can fit into a seemingly small space. It’s rather astounding!

I also learned about wine.  More specifically, drinking wine instead of sitting at the gate watching the time tick by.  What a splendid way to spend that extra half an hour between security and boarding!

And this past weekend I learned about pampering spas.  Why have I not thought of this before? My nails have never looked as good as they did on the flight from Vancouver to Calgary.  $25 and 20 minutes well spent.

Too bad I’m going swimming tomorrow.  Please be nice to my nails, chlorine!

]]> http://jopesta.com/2010/01/25/traveling-in-style/feed/ 0 Lindybout III http://jopesta.com/2009/04/21/lindybout-iii/ http://jopesta.com/2009/04/21/lindybout-iii/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:23:35 +0000 Jo http://jopesta.com/?p=346 Lindybout III in Vancouver was a combination of a variety of words: exhilerating, intimidating, hilarious, shocking, disappointing, amazing.  It felt a little like a rollercoaster, as the nature of competition led to disappointment when I didn’t make it into the finals, being in a different city was occasionally a little intimidating, and yet performing for the first time was exhilerating and in general the people and weekend was amazing.  I really enjoyed watching the competitions as the quality of dancing was great, making them inspiring and reminding me of how much I can still learn.  Some of the performances also brought out huge laughter and more than a couple looks of shock (Birkley!).

I competed in the Short & Sweet Competition with Robert, and we were so amazing that we won!  Grand prize being amazingly tacky sparkly red belts, and yellow “Champion” buttons of honour!  It was great because the spotlight was only 60 seconds long – enough to get nervous but so short that we both walked off stage wondering if we did it right or not.

Vancouver was  beautiful, as spring was in full bloom with the smell in the air and green as far as the eye could see.  Definitely looking forward to Calgary’s spring, which is always a couple months behind.  Sigh.

champion!

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