10 Year Anniversary
I’ve been trying to see my dear friend, Heather, once a week since our arrival here in Vancouver 3 weeks ago.
It’s been years since we’ve hung out like this. We’ve had a couple of wonderful vegetarian meals at her lovely home and had a “Wizard” night and a “Tile Rummy “ evening as well.
We enjoyed playing Rummy with her son, Mackenzie, and I’ve had a meeting to discuss our upcoming collaboration on her children’s book series.
Yesterday, Heather drove us to Granville Island for a very special meet up.
I got to see my old friend, Keith, who used to work with us at M & M for Kids when we all lived in Calgary, Alberta.
Keith is one of the most incredible special effects artists (he can design and create anything out of latex from Zombies to Dinosaurs) in the movie business out here.
Heather set up a meeting for the 3 of us and it would be the first time I’d get to see Keith in 10 years!
Also , the last time I saw him was at Granville island so we decided to recreate the photograph that we still have from that time.
It was fun to explore all the lovely shops on the island and we had a great lunch at Chau Veggie. The iconic friend photo is above left. Keith even wore the very same hat!
We met Surjeet, a kind store proprietor who took our photo with many monkey puppets.( This photo was for our friend, Paul, who also used to work with us. It’s a long story for another time.)
Surjeet had fun chatting with us and he actually gave us small gifts before we left the store (3 little teddy bears and a dinosaur puzzle…. www.pandahouse.store).
It was a fantastic reunion…..Keith hasn’t changed a bit (just his hair colour) and I already miss him.
Looking forward to a couple more visits with Heather.