Ron, Nathan and I went downtown today “just because”.  While we were there we walked around the Vancouver Art Gallery and, within this one block journey we encountered:

• The Islamic Cultural Expo
  (at the front, with many tents, music, food, etc.)
• Several old men playing chess
  (They’re always there on the weekends)
• A Zombie Walk
  (with many people in zombie costumes, zombie face painting and more, all to raising money for a charity – I think it was the BC Children’s hospital)
• A Pre-Teen busker who was playing the Bagpipes
  (He was very good. He was also right next to the Zombies, it made quite a bizarre combination)
• A Juggling Troup at Practice
  (They were just in regular clothes and puttering about with different tools – clubs, batons, strings will balls on the end hula-hoops)

Ah yes.  Vancouver.  Can’t get much more multicultural than that. :D

:-j(enni)