Pinga,

 

you mentioned earlier that you'd be heading to Richard Bott's church that sunday?  where is that at & at which time?

Service is at Dunbar Heights United Church @10am  @ 3525 24 Ave W, Vancouver

 

oh goody, that's near several bus routes

and lots of parks nearby

 

here's a street map

 

https://www.google.ca/maps/preview?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&...

 

the 3 skytrain stations i was yakking aboot are in downtown vancouver, which, if you dezoom the map, is to the NE from the Church

 

yer closish to the university endowment lands...a 'big' park...also wreck beach *waggles eyebrows*

 

also closeish to sensitive longhair hippy land...Jericho Beach...the Planetarium...all within bus riding distance...

 

 

Does he now preach at both places? He's still listed at the Maple Ridge church too. I've met Richard. Very nice guy. Never heard one of his sermons. I'm afraid 10 a.m. is just too early for me to be somewhere other than downtown, by transit, on a Sunday morning. I am not normally a morning person. Takes me til noon to really wake up and socialize- I'm still trying to get accustomed to walking before then. ;)

Jericho is beautiful. One of the best views from there. There's a cafe/ pub at the Jericho sailing club. Not fancy but there's a patio and great scenery. I think the food's reasonably priced if I recall. My dad and I went there once. You don't need to be a member.

Wherever you meet it'll be good. Hard to go wrong here. There are nice spots all over the place- even if you don't plan just look for a place to sit and have a drink/ bite to eat as you are out exploring.

oh yes Pinga visit wreck Beach and if you like that we can go to 3 mile Beach when you are in the OK

Neo, jlin, what do you think aboot meeting at Richard Bott's church (3525 24 Ave W, Vancouver) and then going from there?

 

side note: i'm liking the title of this thread...it's yet another example of the QM nature of reality, how things can be multiple identities at once...BC, Wet Coast, GVRD, SW BC, Pacific North West...

the Shangri-la hotel in downtown Vancouver that my wife and i went on a tour for fun with and my father and i managed one Christmas parade day to get over our shyness & partake of the foyer revitalizants

 

its the type of hotel where one's credit rating goes up the moment you touch a door handle

 

 

even more beautiful in the Wintertime, when the winter terns are tittering

 

inside this building is the cleanest air in the GVRD

 

salt water pools, sunning beach apes, seawalls

 

 

LGBTQwithasideofmayoenclave

It has the cleanest air but a really creepy looking fountain. Looks familiar. Which building is that? Oh yeah! The Planetarium. I haven't been there for ages. Saw a Beatles laser light show. I think it was...? I saw a Who show a Beatles show and a Led Zepp show...in my teens and 20's. One was in Seattle and one in Calgary. Can't remember which was in what city. Forgot about the crab.

wow, thanks ina, i love the idea and look of jericho beach. the view, the picnic tables, the slice of life.

 

You folks know the area well and i appreciate your wisdom.

 

I will be spending friday quietly with a friend, just poking around, so, good to know what is thought of for sunday.

 

 

to be honest, just drinking a thing of water hanging out visiting over a picnic table, laughin with a story or two, saying "remember when", is kinda awesome

I'm good with Richard Bott's church

I'm close to several places in the last vid. I'm in that general 'hood. There's picnic tables, or just big logs to sit on, on that beach, cafes with covered patios if it rains and the seawall of course goes all the way around Stanley Park. Jericho doesn't have as many other close by food, drinks, attractions and amenities to choose from but it is a georgious beach all on its own. The Planetarium I imagine has a pricey admission now- if you actually want to go in? I'm not sure but it wouldn't surprise me if it's pricey.... Yeah. It's $18. during the day.

http://m.spacecentre.ca/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spacecentre.ca%2F#2748

So noone is misled by the last video...Either I live in a parallel universe or she was talking about apartments and homes that rent by the night (there are some buildings that are apartment hotels or homes that rent to traveller). $300? In 1980 maybe. Try $1200-1300 on average for a basic, clean, 70's-80's built nothing special about it apartment! In 2009, when the vid was made, it was roughly the same. It's nearly doubled in 10-15 years. A few years before the Olympics, renupstarts to go up really high and never came back down.

Nevermind. Of course she mentioned the $1m home as well. I missed that. So... She's talking about buying for $300-400K. Duh. Funny, I'm happy to stay renting. I don't even think about someday buying a place anymore. Lol. It's right off my radar. Most people in the older, 1970s, buildings she mentioned (and there are many) are renters not buyers though. Not that it matters unless Pinga is looking to buy real estate.

If you come out again some other time, Pinga, you can find houses to rent, fully furnished, linens, etc. some condos, some are houses with yards, for the same price as a nice hotel. About $150-300/ night- cheaper by the week. My friend does that instead of hotels because she has 2 little dogs she brings along everywhere. You've said you travel a lot on business. A lot of people like this option here because it's homey if they get tired of hotels . I don't know if that's a popular thing in Toronto. Eg. These are near Kitsilano and/ or Jericho Beach.

http://www.vrbo.com/vacation-rentals/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-a...

For example, I don't know if the home is your style, some are really high end, others not as much, but this gives you some idea of what you can get for the cost of hotels and there are photos of what's in that neighbourhood. (I like being virtual tour guide :) )

http://www.vrbo.com/421512


Ooh! This one's georgious. Beautiful garden. I'm daydreaming now- wishing I was just visiting Van on business and could stay in one like this!


http://www.vrbo.com/280578

http://www.vrbo.com/6242316ha
Or this...okay, kind of getting off topic. You're not coming to look at houses. Sorry. I just love looking at these and wanted to share. It does make a good alternative to a hotel. We/ my family rented the main and upper floor of a house (the home owners lived in a suite downstairs) for a very special one time family weekend gathering once. Too many people for our apartment, too expensive to rent a venue and hotels. It worked out great.

I have a hotel booked.  Used a whack of my points, but that is what they are for!

one thing we'll probably not do (as i think we want Pinga to be able to come back sometime) is to ride on this

 

 

this is the one ride that truly gets past my defenses and actually terrified me

 

so anyhew, RB's (doesn't that sound like one of those old radio show bosses titles? "Hey RB, have you heard aboot the new Amistad account?") united church isn't my neck of the woods, but looking around, I see there are places within 'walking distance'

 

On Dunbar:  there is the Dunbar Public House http://www.thedunbar.ca/ ; The Kokopelli Cafe http://www.kokopellicafe.com/

 

Just a bus ride away there is UBC with the University Endowment Lands.

 

Just a bus ride away there is the Spanish Banks with those WW 2 bunkers

 

There's Kits Beach, with a lot of local eateries & convivial meeting places

 

UBC also has a world-famous PARTICLE ACCELERATOR called 'TRIUMF'

 

if we want to try to wow Pinga to her core, we could take her up one of the local mountains, where she would see most of the City of Jewels in all its splendor (and maybe feed a whiskeyjack or three)

 

Public transport criticism:  whomever came up with the Skytrain station wasn't thinking clearly because there are NO PUBLIC WASHROOMS at each station as there should be in a civilized country.  that's something for travellers to keep in mind.  we here on the wet coast ARE LIVING in Canada's wild west ;3

 

SIDE NOTE:  this is why i think the UCC is important and why i hope it can continue

 

 

these people on the front lines of that 3rd world country within Vancouver, BC

 

Wow - ina has done a great job of highlighting places to see and things to do. Dunbar Heights UC is close to the west side beaches, including Jericho, Locarno and Spanish Banks (and it's close to my home as well ). A picnic/gathering at the beach after the service would be great if the weather is good. And if the weather isn't good there are restaurants in the neighbourhood as a backup plan.

Free/ discount is better then, anyway! I knew you booked a hotel already. I meant for another time, perhaps, because you travel a lot, in case you didn't know about the site...and it gave me the chance to daydream, looking at other people's houses. I don't have cable anymore so I miss watching those home decorating shows on 'W' channel I guess. They were the few shows I watched. :)

I love a picnic idea after the church service.  I can't make food, but, I can definitely pick up items to bring or beverages.  I will even have my own travelling dishes!

 

Ina, I am thrilled with your suggestions.   

 

I am making plans for spending time with a friend on Friday, and then some others on Saturday, so, a wondercafe gathering following church is great for sunday.

 

Let me know what I need to do, (other than show up)

 

just wanted to let you folks know that if i'm not there it will be because i am dead or in the hospital or have been abducted by aliens

 

my doctor's appointment is tomorrow for my constipation

 

(it'd be ironic if it were cancer :3)

 

if yer travelling by public transit, remember to bring change -- the busses don't accommodate bills.  and since its the weekend, bus fare will only be $2.75 for 90 minutes

 

you might also want to bring along some rain clothing, just in case

 

you might also want to bring along some kind of escape hatch or wingwoman or soft hammer of bonking just in case i or some of us start boring you to death

 

we can decide at the church where to go and what to do (bad weather = dine on Dunbar, good weather = enjoy the pretty bois & girls and boygirls & girlbois at the beach? or there are several smaller but closer parks? Valdez, Carnarvon, Chaldecott, Balaclava?)

 

there should be places nearby where people can purchase supplies in case we go on a picknick?  yanno, like cuties to feed us grapes and wine while we talk?

 

i'll try to bring one thing i brought with me for our group's very first wc meeting -- a roll of paper which i rolled out on the table and some pencil crayons for people to doodle with if they want to

 

jlin, i hope you don't have any mobility issues

 

Hope your appointment went okay . . . and you are on a path of healing.  (And . . . well . . . you know . . .  pping!).

 

 

 

*chuckle*

 

thanks Beloved

 

i know now how Gregor Samsa probably felt in Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' :3

 

i've changed my diet (i actually like prunes now -- nothing like a little fear of dying to try new things), changed my DAoL (eg getting off my blubberalicious whalebutt and going for long walks every day) and have introduced my nether regions to new things to insert

 

and lactulose...mmm, what a balm that is.  tastes like supersweet honey and makes my innards play like a symphony...of chaos :3

 

now i know i can't toss whatever i want whenever i want into my system without consequences...i'm not immortal 

Inanna - too much information!!!

 

*hands seeler some Peril Sensitive Sunglasses*

 

 

Thought ofyou yesterday,Inanna......... A t=Shirt read " I  pooped today."

 

 

COOLIES!!!

 

"Careful observers may foretell the hour

 

chuckle

Pinga, you will only need to show up. Others will bring picnic food, unless the weather is lousy and we'll go to a restaurant. Do we know how many people will be gathering that day for an after service get together?

Have you told Rchard you are coming?

 

don't all Christians already have the "Holy Ghost" spiritual Wi-Fi service? :3

 

0 day was when Jesus was born, since then, the emanation has spread...

 

 

Homo Superior; can't stop evolution :3

I had mentioned that I would be coming to his service, I thought, but, haven't noted it since.

 

I am just back to the hotel, so getting caught up on reading and have some deliverables still to do tonight, sigh.

 

Will try to catch up tomorrow or wed night.

So I am thinking of the logistics here due to some good questions by a wise woman.

 

1.  Church service is from 10am to 11:15am at Dunbar Hights United.

I put together a sample map to see what going to a beach might be like.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/3525+W+24th+Ave,+Vancouver,+BC+V6S+1L4,+Canada/Jericho+Beach/@49.2658163,-123.1882757,13z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m18!4m17!1m5!1m1!1s0x5486730ff02f6ab9:0xde181f1b04acffff!2m2!1d-123.1827005!2d49.2511839!1m5!1m1!1s0x548672587594d305:0xcfba9acea8f5957f!2m2!1d-123.1944069!2d49.2724337!2m3!6e4!7e2!8j1404045120!3e3

 

Questions: 

1.  Who is going to church, or thinking of going to church.

2.  If you aren't going to church, then, how will we meet? Probably would be good to ensure we know which beach we are going to, and if conditions are bad, our alternate.

3.  It is a long weekend, and so beach is likely to be busy.  Thinking we need a flag or some way to let folks know where we are.

 

Vancouverites? how do we work throgh the specifics so that those who don't meet at the church or are delayed know where to meet us?  I'd hate for someone to miss out due to a miscommunication....

So I am thinking of the logistics here due to some good questions by a wise woman.

 

1.  Church service is from 10am to 11:15am at Dunbar Hights United.

I put together a sample map to see what going to a beach might be like.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/3525+W+24th+Ave,+Vancouver,+BC+V6S+1L4,+Canada/Jericho+Beach/@49.2658163,-123.1882757,13z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m18!4m17!1m5!1m1!1s0x5486730ff02f6ab9:0xde181f1b04acffff!2m2!1d-123.1827005!2d49.2511839!1m5!1m1!1s0x548672587594d305:0xcfba9acea8f5957f!2m2!1d-123.1944069!2d49.2724337!2m3!6e4!7e2!8j1404045120!3e3

 

Questions: 

1.  Who is going to church, or thinking of going to church.

2.  If you aren't going to church, then, how will we meet? Probably would be good to ensure we know which beach we are going to, and if conditions are bad, our alternate.

3.  It is a long weekend, and so beach is likely to be busy.  Thinking we need a flag or some way to let folks know where we are.

 

Vancouverites? how do we work throgh the specifics so that those who don't meet at the church or are delayed know where to meet us?  I'd hate for someone to miss out due to a miscommunication....

Myst,

 

since this is in your neck of the woods, I leave it to you to continue :3

Thanks for this, Pinga. Sorry I didn’t see your post until today.

 

I also wonder who is planning on attending a) the service at Dunbar Heights UC and b) coming for lunch after. Please let us know here or send me a wondermail.

 

Ina are you planning on coming for lunch?

 

I think we should meet beside the concession at Jericho Beach (not be confused with the other concessions along the west side beaches). Those who are coming from the service should be at the beach by 12:00. I will know Pinga and Ina, but if any others are planning on coming and haven’t met Pinga or I before, let us know that you plan to be there so we can find each other. There is pay parking in a lot there and lots of grass area to spread out if we don’t find a picnic table. Also, as Pinga has shown there are buses that go to Alma and 4^th Ave (depending on where you are coming from, but the bus stops are either on 4^th or Alma).

 

It would also be important to know who is planning on joining us in case it isn’t picnic weather that day and we end up going to a restaurant. Again, wondermail would be a good way to communicate this.

Myst,

 

yes, my wife (Nutmeg) and I are planning on attending both the service (to meet with Pinga et al) & any after events :3

That's great Ina. Richard Bott will also join us for lunch (and of course, he will be at the service).

Myst, I would truly like to be there.

Awww crazyheart, I truly wish you could be here too.

 

I've started a new thread regarding the wondergathering June 29th.

Enjoy your Vancouver wondergathering possums, I know I did......

 

Just sorry I won't be able to delight your tastebuds wih vegemite sandwiches.

Here is the thread: http://www.wondercafe2.ca/index.php?threads/vancouver-area-wondergathering-sunday-june-29.137/

Hey everyone, sorry for taking such a long time out, I have been gaging just how much time I could take away and still sort of be in the loop.  You people are great! 

Question:  What time is R Bott's service at Dunbar Church?  Is it called Dunbar Heights Church?  I am travelling from the Island, so this is important.  And I will be heading back in the late afternoon, as I am working the next day - I may have a pets problem as well and this all hinges on getting the right help in with them as my kids and partner are leaving for Calgary the same morning.  If we go to the church do we wear special WonderCafe name tags to identify ourselves or do we just dance up to the front to a red-faced Richard? huh?

 

I have read all the information concerning Jericho Beach and the concession.  I do get mixed up around there, it has been a very long time, but hopefully  some things will be constant.  Have we opted out of the picnic? 

Jlin

 

 

 

 

 

Jlin,

 

Please see this thread http://www.wondercafe.ca/discussion/social/vancouver-area-wondergathering-sunday-june-29

 

Myst is the organizer now :3