From: myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui)
Subject: Re: Vicky Boink.
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 17:25:56 GMT

In article <14994@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>>See the Vancouver Aquarium, the world's first aquarium with unscheduled
>>whale and dolphin shows. :-)
> 
>I'm not sure what an unscheduled whale and dolphin show is but Aquariums
>are usually interesting.  We're fortunate to have some real good ones
>in the bay area (if you consider Monterey, to SF the bay area).

Due to humane reasons the killer whales and dolphins will not be forced
to perform for the crowd if they are not in the mood. I believe this
has become a blanket policy now so that the staff will "interact" with
the mammals and when they're in a playful mood, simply provide the
usual toys for them to play with; i.e. wire hoops, fish at the end of a
long pole for the whale to jump straight up to grab, human-on-top-of-
dolphin joy rides, etc.

Also, I believe they have made a decision to never capture another animal
again from the wild.

>>Cruise through Robson Street, from Burrard to Davie.
> 
>And what will you see?

Lots of trendy shops, very gay coffee shops, very hetero clothing
shops, a few places selling Hugo Boss suits at list price, neat book
stores, even neater fish stores selling classic smoked pacific salmon,
both the tourist trap Japanese-style gift wrapped variety and the
newspaper-wrapped it-simply-tastes-good variety, obligatory fish and
chip stores, lots of dessert and coffee places, a few nice cars, lots
of *nice* women.  :-)

>>Check out the night time sight of downtown across the water from the
>>darkness of that wonderful patch of grass behind the H.R. MacMillan
>>Planetarium. All you instant-romance types can indulge in your favorite
>>activiry there.
> 
>Sounds like you know that place intimately.  Care to provide additional 
>details.  

It looks across the water at all the lights in downtown. It's a gently rolling
lawn with fair sized ponds scattered throughout, a few paved paths for walking.
It's an ideal place for that First Kiss [no (tm) tm]. I've done just that for
a few times, so it's definitely a Good Luck locale for me. It's dead quiet at
night, yet you feel safe since major amounts of civilization is a stroll away
and others have gone there for the same purpose.  :-}

>>How about all the _very_ nice Chinese restaurants around town? A
>>different one each night can keep you busy for a week even if you only
>>try all the best ones.
> 
>I've only driven through Vancouver but I was suprised to find that Vancouver
>has one of the largest "china towns" in the world.  We`ve got a pretty good
>china town out here in SF.

Chinatown is certainly large. But many of the best restaurants are out
the 'Burbs now. Richmond (a burb full of Chinese immigrants, not
necessarily recent ones, meaning they are Canadians of Chinese descent)
has some major ones which are top quality. Oakridge (south western
section of Vancouver with no view but classy large houses on large
lots) is also full of good restaurants.

Hey, Dudes and Dudettes, I'm all for leading y'all on a Chinese
Restaurant Tour through Vancouver. Just make sure you jog every morning
streneously around Stanley Park to work off the grease and fat.

Michael MY Hui  ~{PmCw6w~}   myhui@bnr.ca   Ottawa Canada
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