Celebration of Light

If you’re like me, you still call it the Symphony of Fire, and still associate it with Benson & Hedges. The name may be different, it may now be sponsored by HSBC, but the Celebration of Light is still a fun thing to see.

Head to English Bay to watch the fireworks displays set to music. Have a look at www.celebration-of-light.com for the schedule. Canada is on tonight, Saturday will be the USA, then July 30 is China’s turn. My personal favourite is finale night, which will be on August 2^nd.

Fireworks start around 10:00pm and last approximately 20 minutes, but be sure to allow yourself plenty of travel time. If you want a spot on the beach, arrive several hours early. I, personally, have never actually gotten a spot on the beach, so I’m not really sure how early you would have to go.

As well, it’s going to take you ages to get home, especially if you take public transit, so allow plenty of time for that as well. If you’re taking kids, you’ll probably have to carry/drag them half way back to the nearest Skytrain station. Then the Skytrain will be full. Then your child will have to pee… it’s a vicious cycle really. The best solution is to leave the kiddies at home. Find a sitter who abhors crowds, that way they won’t have wanted to go to the fireworks anyways.

Viva Las Vegas!

Looking to take a vacation in August or September? Want to go somewhere that the daytime temperature could set you on fire? What if you were guaranteed to never have to go outside during daylight hours? Sounds good to me! Although, personally, I’ll take my chances of bursting into flames while I try to get a tan…

Lazy girls like to lie by the pool and drink frosty beverages from colourful cups… Las Vegas here I come!

WestJet has a few flight deals, where you can get hotel & flight from $500 (this includes taxes, people!). Check out www.westjet.com.

Lazy Girls Enjoying the World

No travel plans in the near future? You wanted to make some? Why not go check out LA! Flight Centre (www.flightcentre.ca) is advertising return tickets to LA or Las Vegas for $99. Seriously, that is worth checking out.

They’ve also got tickets to the big T.O. for only $199 (presumably that’s before you add the horrendous taxes, etc that get tagged onto tickets in Canada). But why go to Toronto for $199 when you can go to London for only $299? Really, what’s the point.

So I’ll see you in London on my week off…

Other Lazy Girls

I just had a go of trying to google my blog. You could call it vanity, but then on the other hand I’m pretty sure I’m still my only reader. I’m still figuring out this blogging deal, so that’s probably par for the course. Maybe one day I’ll have a loyal following and maybe even a fan club. The members could have laminated member cards with a picture of my face…

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I mean, I’ll have to become photogenic first. Maybe a makeover and some airbrushing.

At any rate, I’ve googled “lazy girl Vancouver” to see what comes up.

Apparently there are some lazy designers in Ohio. I’m not sure why they came up in my search, but they probably ship to Vancouver. They even make something called Bag-E-Bottoms. I got very excited thinking they would be hideous pants, but alas, they are plastic discs for making purses. I would just like to point out that lazy girls BUY their purses instead of MAKING them. www.lazygirldesigns.com

There is also a lazy girl’s guide to Pacific Rim national park (http://www.hereorthere.com/members/alexandra/experience/801). Which I didn’t make. I have been there, but I went surfing, so that disqualifies it from “lazy” in my mind.

Apparently there’s also a book, The Lazy Girl’s guide to Good Sex. I didn’t write that. Too lazy to do all the research and write the book. Well, just the book-writing part. I suppose the research would be pretty fun.

At any rate, I don’t think there are any other lazy girls writing about this city and filling you in on all the fun, lazy things to do. So I win for that category.