seattle-vancouver

Besides from missing all the happenings in nyc, me and jlo have been spending our last few days in seattle and vancouver. Both are nice, comparable yet distinct cities. Maybe its because i've arrived here just after being in nyc.....that i felt these cities are slow paced and sorta boring ...heh. I do like the weather tho...in seattle...not vancouver!

Seattle's streets were freakishly clean n pretty (coming from ny) and the people were suprisingly friendly. The pike place market is a must for anyone visiting. Also space needle and Uwajimaya, huge asianmart was also pretty cool. Oh and to top the day off... i had the best two hour coffee/bookstore reading session in my life!

Vancouver...just rained n rained........city is full of residential high rises which makes the cityscape look glassy sorta cool. Didn't really have an itenery until our third day (the rain sorta mellowed us)...which that day we headed out to richmond which is the unoffical "chinatown", half the population is asian.

Saw a buddhist temple there. To see an authentic, traditional chinese architecture in a western country was truly a gem.. a "point of pride" for chinese. And a bizzare experience was seeing the HK style malls......this particular one called aberdeen mall had a musical fountain smacked inside it....instantly reminding me of the one i'd use to go to in Sha tin Hong Kong as a child. Sorta relived my childhood life a little bit...heh...yea i miss HK....

Stanely Park would be a highlight if anyone would come to visit and also lynn canyon suspension bridge and granville island was quite nice (even in the rain heh). San Francisco tomorrow....wonder what will that city bring...

PS. photos later.