We found one!

We were excited to attend HSBC's Hispanic Latin Diversity Committee BBQ today in Stanley Park.  The weather was glorious once again (we haven't seen rain since June 28th).  After our first hour there, Melvin turns to me with a long face and says, "There are no Latins from the Caribbean here".  Yes, it is true, most were from South America but heck, that's neither here nor there, these people knew how to grill meat!  It was a very multi-cultural event with a lot of Asians and even white people.  Good times for everyone...No matter what country they are from, Latins love music and even though they forgot to include the Dominican flag on their display, they were rockin'  merengue the whole time.  Towards the end of the picnic, Melvin discovered there was ONE Dominican there - hooray!  They do exist in Vancouver!  LOL

Afterwards, we took a drive while the kids slept (we live for nap time) and explored Stanley Park further and drove to Kitsilano Beach & Pool, which was a treat to finally see. Not a bigger treat than Aphrodite's Cafe though - http://www.organiccafe.ca/ - which serves up some kick ass organic blueberry pie (we discovered that B.C. is one of the top three blueberry producing regions in the world).  Come and visit us and we will take you there!

Just to make our day even longer, I got invited to a party that one of my old vendors was throwing and we called our babysitter to come watch the kids while we had a night out.  The lounge happened to be a half block away - how convenient!!!  Nothing like free wine and hors d'oeuvres to end a fun, but tiring, day!