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Mountain Equipment Co-op is hosting Paddlefest this Sunday at Ambleside Park in West Vancouver. As a lifelong kayaker this event caught my eye. Assuming the weather is nice, and what  big assumptoin that is these days, this sounds like a great day at the beach for all ages from singles to families with kids. MEC says: This is a ...

The Zip Trek experience in Whistler has been very popular since it opened some years ago and now you can try a zipline adventure right in Metro Vancouver with the opening tomorrow of Grouse Mountain's Air Grouse ziplines. They are starting with 3 and will be expanding the operation in the Fall of 2008. The weather is supposed to be great ...

I just didn't get to this during the week and whether I really have time for it now is debatable, but this is one of the biggest events of the year around the creek so I have to get it out there. The Rio Tinto Alcan Canadian Dragon Boat Festival is on right now, and tomorrow too down at the east end of the Creek and just north of Science ...

The family and I were quite busy this weekend and missed out on most of the Winterruption festival on Granville Island, but we did get down there on Saturday evening for dinner at the market. Dinner at market is great for young kids. They have a ka-zillion choices and usually its not too busy so they can run around after they finish eating in 2.5 ...

The Winterruption festival starts tomorrow on Granville Island. There are great sounding activities, performances, art and music happening all around the island from Thursday through Sunday the 24th. Some of the highlights that struck me were: Family Winter Carnival False Creek Community Centre Sunday 10:30AM-12:00PM - $5 per family member, ...

There is so much to do at this time of year and that is not to mention all the tedious gift buying and working and ....  blah blah blah. So what I've got today are a series of fun things to do around Vancouver this Christmas-time. Late last week the fam and I went out to Bright Lights in Stanley Park to see the lights, ...

Earlier this week in the Raincity Guide out of Seattle I read a story about exploding hot water tanks. Actually they seem to call them "water heaters" in the U.S. I had never heard this before. I had also never heard that there is an urban myth that a faulty hot water tank can explode and shoot through the roof of a ...

Its seems when the weather is truly atrocious I don't feel like writing Fun on Fridays. That seems to occurring about every other week this fall. But today is nice enough and I was down on the (Granville) Island with the baby and I came across few fun things. I had a little Masala Chai at the Granville Isand Tea Co. and picked up a ...