Justin: Downtown Vancouver, shot from across the bay. I do love the water and how it's practically everywhere in Vancouver, particularly constantly falling on my head. Sean made me climb a rickety observation tower, laughing at my crippling fear of heights. He only held me over the edge for a few seconds by my ankles, to show how easily he could crush me, and then the point was made. I would no longer wake him up by flicking his bedroom lights on and off.

PoolMan: I'm biased, of course, but I think Vancouver's got one of the best skylines in the world. It's really, really neat, and I often go down to the Lonsdale Quay for this very view (and fresh fish). As far as Justin's fear of heights, you have to understand that I had NO IDEA about that until I climbed two flights of stairs at the lookout tower before I looked back and saw J creeping up the first flight like an old granny. I had to laugh. I thought he was kidding! And by the time I found out he had a REAL fear of heights, I was too busy laughing to change my mind. But he went to the top, and that was a brave thing.

Justin: We were walking the streets of a shopping district, admiring all the really freaky people and cute girls alike, when we came upon a taste-testing booth between Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi. Now, both of these drinks taste like fizzy acid, and invariably make me burp for the next half hour. But both of us were able to identify Pepsi as the "better" of the two, which means we got coupons for free 2-liters. Whee.

PoolMan: The whole Pepsi taste test cracks me up. There were these two guys at the booth whose job seems to consist entirely of taking crap from guys like Justin and I. We were mocking and mean, in that immature college boy kind of way. Cool. (Justin neglected to mention we both got some much-needed gum)

PoolMan: Sigh... the very day Justin arrives, the powers that be decide to leave me at his teasing mercy by printing a nice big headline about Canada being behind the US by 30%. Not that it specifies what we're 30% behind IN, mind you. And of course, you guys probably have no idea who the Grits are, either. No, they're not a breakfast food.

Justin: We have to leave this picture somewhat large so that you can read the newspaper. I found it hilarious that my first day up, their newspaper would feature a headline admitting that they're 30% behind the US. 30% behind in jellybean technology, 30% behind in Texas cheerleaders, 30% behind in groovy tunes. I felt sorry fo Canadians after that, and gave everyone I saw a hug to make it better. Also notice the John Travolta/Battlefield Earth picture in the top corner.