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By Johnny, August 15, 2007 8:46 pm

On the 9th day of our vacation, we went to eat dim-sum in Richmond, British Columbia. Hands down the BEST dim-sum we ever ate! I’d go back to Vancouver just to have another meal. We spent most our time coming back into America. 2 hour wait at the border. We even had guys selling ice cream in between the 2 lanes. We then took a detour out to Microsoft. Nothing really to see but plain buildings. We drove around trying to find where they developed the Xbox 360. No luck. We eventually made it back to Tammy’s place.

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By Johnny, July 29, 2007 10:14 pm

We’re back at Tammy’s place right now. We decided to grab some dim-sum this morning in Richmond, British Columbia. It’s like a Alhambra or Monterey Park of Canada. The dim-sum experience was pretty different. First of all, there isn’t any carts perusing the aisles of tables. Instead, you order from a sheet of paper similar to a sushi menu. Of course, none of us knew how to read or write Chinese so we had to dictate to the waitress what we wanted. Before we went to British Columbia, I was told by many people that the best dim-sum in world was in BC. It was even better than San Francisco or even Hong Kong. Bold statement until we had ours. It was in fact the best dim-sum ever! The har gow and shui mai was large and plump. Every order was excellent!

Victoria, British Columbia was also a good experience. We rode in and out of Victoria to our ferry on the local bus. We only had 3 hours to walk around town. I know we didn’t see all of Victoria but we had to get going. It was mass chaos getting back on the ferry. At first, they did not allow anyone to board but eventually they sent us all in without even charging us a fare. Apparently there was a security issue so they had to load the last ferry. We were exhausted when we got back to the hotel after a late dinner.

We’ll be going home tomorrow. Before that we’re planning to check out the Chinatown in Seattle since we haven’t been there yet. It was a good vacation and I’ll definitely visit these places again. Next time, on planes instead of our 2,000 mile drive.

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By Johnny, July 25, 2007 11:34 pm

We’re currently in Federal Way, WA with my grade school friend, Tammy. Our day started with a visit to downtown Portland, OR. We checked out the Pearl District, Chinatown, and various other locations in the city. There were barely any people walking around the streets and construction work was all over the place. The place was filled with homeless folks and crazy people. We saw a guy walk around with 2 green balloons in his pink blouse and singing. As long as you kept to yourself, they didn’t bother you. We then went over to the International Rose Garden in Washington Park. The city of roses did not disappoint when it comes to beautiful varieties of roses. We went back to meet up with Lori at Nike, and she gave us an incredible tour through the Nike campus. It was awesome and everyone learned alot from her. Kinda makes me want to work there. It would definitely be a different type of lifestyle in Beaverton. Something I would need to get used to. Something I’m not ready to do just yet. Nathan joined us for lunch, and we said our good-byes and proceeded to do the tour of Mount Hood.

That was another 1.5 hours to Mt. Hood. We ended up at Timberline Lodge, which is the base of Mt. Hood and took pictures and bought souvenirs. We drove another 1.5 hours out of Mt. Hood to the Gorge. We attempted to reach the dam in Bonneville. Unfortunately, they were closed by the time we got there. We called it a day and proceeded to drive to Tammy’s place afterwards.

I bought myself a nice messenger bag. No it’s not a purse! I’ve always wanted one to carry things. I can test it out tomorrow when we head into Seattle for the entire day.