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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Gonna rock your body ’til Canada Day!

I’m in Canada. For the second time in a year. Weird! My sister-in-law is Canadian, and her and my brother’s wedding was in Montreal last summer. And now I’m in Vancouver on business for a few days.

I’ve never been to Vancouver. I arrived this afternoon and haven’t had a chance to see anything yet (I don’t even know if I’ll get to see much). But it’s weird how big Canada is. Of course, the U.S. is huge, with such a long distance between the east and west coasts; but when a country isn’t your own, it’s weird to think that that country itself can have two places so different from each other.

Granted, I haven’t gotten to take in the flavor of Vancouver yet. But I was reading that the city has experienced a heavy infux of immigration from Asia in the past few years, and I can definitely tell: lots of Asians on the rainy streets as I rode by in the cab. I don’t remember that being the case in Montreal.

Also, I get the sense that Vancouver is crunchier than eastern Canada. But that’s from reading a guidebook - I haven’t actually experienced it yet.

As for the first line of this post - I got to watch two episodes of “How I Met Your Mother” on the plane, so it seemed appropriate.