Jordan and Karla's Visit

In April, my brother Jordan and  his wife Karla paid us a visit from Saskatoon. The first thing on our agenda was taking in a White Caps game. We aren't big soccer fans so we would not typically decide to go on our own but Jordan is a big fan and times his visits to the games. Last time we saw the Women's world cup and this time it was a regular season game. My lack of soccer awareness came to light when it took me 5 minutes to realize I was cheering for the wrong team. In my defense the white caps are supposed to be blue and white and were a dark blue that almost looked back.

Once I figured out which team was which we were somewhat disappointed as the White Caps didn't seem to be having their best game. They lost 2-0. It would have been a much more exciting game for me if I had't figured out which team was which.

On the Saturday we spent some time at the Vancouver art gallery. There was a showing by Takashi Murakami called 'The Octopus Eats It's Own Leg". Another benefit of having people come visit you is that you go to things you wouldn't ordinarily make time to see even though they are in your own town. This artist has some very large scale pieces. I enjoyed seeing the process that goes into creating them. There is an army of assistants meticulously going over each piece in multiple colors and layers.There were also a number of sculptures. The biggest one  was over two stories high. I looked closely to see that it appears to have been created in sections. (I was most interested in how everything was made.)

Once Kerry found out that they were coming she checked the local run schedule to see if there were any events. Jordan plays soccer but hasn't done a formal run before. Karla on the other hand is constantly in events. The run that was available was actually a beer crawl. A large number of craft breweries have opened up in Vancouver in the last decade and this run went from brewery to brewery allowing for sampling along the way. Carter and I dropped them off and spent some time wandering around the area of the final brewery. Another area that we would not ordinarily go to but was fun to explore.

We finished the weekend off with a trip to the Cactus club. We had received a gift card from my parents and we were also able to transfer some PetroPoints into gift cards. I think we've been collecting them for 20 years so it was good to finally have something note worthy to cash them into.

It was a fun weekend being tourists in our own backyard.