Second Beach Pool, Lawn Bowling, Seawall, and Nicotine Patch

OK, here we are at the eating area at Second Beach. If you read the posting entitled Jerome (young man from France) you will see a picture of Vancouver from Grouse Mountain. This is a southward view. Stanley Park is the big green thing on the right.

The ‘downtown core’, as they call it, juts out into the sea (at the end of this ‘downtown core’ is Stanley Park. Now, I thought this downtown core was Vancouver… I mean, I thought that was all of Vancouver. Well, I was off on that one (just a wee bit).

I am telling you this to try and convey the size of Stanley Park. This massive park is larger than the downtown core of Vancouver.

I came along Beach Avenue to get here (on the south side). I continued along the Seawall to the Second Beach Pool area (where I am now). I meandered trying to see if there was any power outlet available to park visitors. So far…shitotta luck. We’ll see how this battery goes. Hell, I’m just glad I can see the screen.

On my way here I saw the Lawn Bowlers (visitors welcome). Boy oh boy, there sure were a lot of white pants and large hats THERE! Eesh! Good for them though, at least they’re getting out.

The Seawall circles Stanley Park and you can take it all the way around on foot, on rollerblades, bike, stretcher (joke – just checkin’ to see if yer payin’ attention). It’s a lovely seawall and the smell of the salt air is delightful.

The Pool is pretty cool too. You have to pay to get in and there are many slides, a ‘beach-type’ entrance (no steps). There sure are a lot of strollers here.

I feel like the urban asshole here with a laptop! Everyone else is all into nature, family, and pets while I am here like a digital moron, but who cares.

There is a family of 5 next to me here and one of the twin boys is acting up. OUASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He’s a screamer! God love his little heart, he sure can howl (he’s crying to break his heart). I sure can empathize… that’s EXACTLY what I did when Buffalo put the Sens out. Now, the kid’s getting a time out and his dad is telling him to stop kicking. Again, flashbacks to the day our Sens lost.

From what I can gather, I’m using about 10% of my batter here every 20 minutes. So, the play-by-play of the screaming kid should last for hours! KIDDING!

I have to post a separate entry regarding my quitting smoking. Today is Day 40 and I mentioned my patch yesterday. Well, get this; I forgot to put it on yesterday. I had purposely left it off at the beach, then, when I arrived home, I just forgot to put it on. Next thing I was coming back from the pool and putting the patch on wet skin doesn’t work. One thing led to another, and I only thought of it, as I was about to go to bed. I then opted to leave it off (dreams and insomnia…I’ll definitely save that for the separate posting).

Now, this morning, I put the damn suntan lotion on and can’t put the patch over THAT. So, my nicotine ran out yesterday (Friday) morning at 7:00 am, and it is now Saturday at 12:54 pm. I guess that’s pretty good, but I think this could be a dangerous game. Yeah, here goes… I had better put it on (now to try and find the same ‘hole in the tan’ as last time). Well, it’s on, but I’m not sure how well I did blindly trying to affix it to the exact same spot.

Time to move on. Will fire this puppy up from the next stop (wherever that turns out to be).