After school on Friday I was lounging around the house, trying to dream up something to do. Outside. Darina’s seasonal depression was knocking and I knew from experience that we had to get things moving to save the day. After considering our options and rejecting a few other adventures, we decided on Lynn Canyon and its not-so-famous suspension bridge, which is often lost in the shadow of that other tourist trap on Capilano Road.
The photo above was taken at the exact moment Darina realized she left her bus pass at home. After heading back to grab it, we hopped on the bus and discovered that Brock had lost the bus tickets he just bought five minutes earlier. The bus driver was mildly resistant, but I think Brock’s disbelief was convincing, because the disappearance of the tickets was so magical he found them up his sleeve later.
A really nice man who probably thought we were tourists because of the cameras we were slangin gave Brock two more tickets and that put Darina in a bit of a better mood because she loves random acts of kindness (“I could tell he was very kind when I first looked at him. Plus he was gorgeous!”).
It was a pretty grey day and I decided to shoot some black and white film. Because Darina and Brock dressed in bright colours I regretted the decision right up until I got the roll developed. When I saw the results I was pleasantly surprised.
The last time I was at Lynn Canyon was a field trip in elementary school and it was pretty hectic. This go around we were definitely the only people there. We jumped around on the bridge and wandered through the forest before walking back to civilization and catching the bus-seabus-skytrain-bus home.
When we were crossing the water back to the South shore, we spotted a man and his daughter taking transit home from skiing at Grouse. Darina, already in a much better mood, immediately fell in love with his little girl. She was so in love, the second they walked into our Skytrain car she told him straight up, “You have the most beautiful daughter in the world.”
To which he replied, “You should see her mother.”
