GOODBYE VANCOUVER, LINGERING MEMORIES

the wine gums still haven't been unloaded, but we should really start thinking about doing the exchange: it would be wonderful to have some coffee or beer for sitting under the cherry blossoms on the riverfront. back in vancouver, i heard that the city was selling the trees to residents for just thirty dollars each in an effort to keep residential streets full of their blossoms in the spring. (death is waiting in the wings for many of vancouver's currently flowering cherry blossom trees, apparently.) but then the more i stare at the pile of candy the more i think that i should just go down to the "give pizza a chance" cart between 4th and 5th on sw stark st and get people souvenirs from there. nothing is more canadian than pizza by the slice on a ruffle edged paper plate. and if you don't know that, you're not one of us.