Vancouver

Sometimes love comes suddenly and unexpectedly. This love hit me when I was down in Vancouver the first time around. Charles and Terry! Here´s the story in brief. I went down to be by my brothers side and we just happend to go for dinner with a collegue of his and his boyfriend. We had such a good time and when they offered me to stay at their place I just couldn´t say no. So all of a sudden I´m installed at Terrys place in Vancouver and it feels like the most natural thing in the world. If it wasn´t for the fact that my money was running out I probably would have stayed forever!



This is how happy I felt with them!





Well, all my friends seem to have emigrated to Vancouver. I didn't think I would, but I found a whole bunch of them. Manjinder deserves a special mentioning here. Hmmm, what can I say about the worlds most wonderful man? After not seeing eachother for 10 years you start wondering if it was all in your head and he couldn´t possibly be as good as you remember. But yes, he still rocks my world.

A classical Melinda/Manjinder pose. I humour myself by thinking that we haven´t changed at all. Well, it certainly didn't feel that way. I will have to look back at the the photos from 1992, 1994, 1996



Crystal, she's still radiant! Well, she is giving birth in three weeks, but she´s always had a glow about her. I took a day to visit her in Nanaimo. One day was not nearly enough time... I will have to come back again soon. Funny, I lived in Nanaimo for over a year but I know nobody there except my old friend from the Fort who moved there years after I had already left.


So grown up! Brook remembers me from my visit 5 years ago, Dane was way too young to rember.


Loretta, Carolyn and I used to cruise the three streets of Fort St. James. Now we´re all grown up and all the cruising that gets done is going to work, buy groceries and the kids activeties. Well... the last one doesn´t apply to me. Loretta married the boy next door and they now live in Vancouver with a lovely little Bella and another little one on the way.



Hmmm, too bad I don´t have photos of the others I got to see in Vancouver. Robyn, Mike, Rob, Perry... yeah, will definately have to revisit soon again.