Magicians and Pirates

Saturday morning with no one having to work we were set to have a nice busy day together outside. The day started out overcast so we decided to start at Granville Island where we could visit some shops inside and do more of the outside type stuff in the afternoon after the clouds had burnt off. We walked around the kids market and found a couple gems like Bacon Strip band-aids and pirate wench costumes but left empty handed. We then made our way along to the market to possibly buy a couple things for a picnic lunch. As soon as we walked in "bam" magician entertaining. He was, um, a little odd. At one point I think he might have gotten a little stern with one of the little boys helping him out but nothing that provided me more with a little extra entertainment. The kids were into it enough but when we decided it was time to move on they didn't seem disappointed about it. We continued on our way and passed by amazing bread shops, fresh veg and herbs, sweet shops and then these amazing fruit stands.

While living in the Philippines Ryan would often stop at the fruit stand on his way home from work in the morning bringing home fresh Rambutan (pink with the green fuzz stuff) which are somewhat like white grapes when peeled, mangosteen (sour/sweet fruit with a hard purple shell and green stem) that we always thought the insides looked like a white orange or lychee. These were all seasonal fruit that we loved and became favourites with all 5 of us. So when we walked past a fruit stand in the Granville Island market to find all three it made my mouth water!

After walking through the market, being tempted by fresh breads, aroma's of simmering caramels, and colourful fruit stands and leaving empty handed we thought it would be a good time for lunch. When my sister and I were younger and we lived in Burnaby we would frequent The White Spot as our fast food joint. We loved to get the pirate packs which was the equivalent of a happy meal but came in a cardboard pirate ship with a gold coin chocolate as treasure! They were awesome. We would then go to my Nana's apartment and sink them in the swimming pool. The White Spot has this sauce they put on their burgers, Triple 'O Sauce, and it's pretty amazing. I love it. I double it on my burgers because you can never have too much sauce, right? So as a treat whenever we're in Vancouver/Victoria we stop at the White Spot for a trip down memory lane for me and to get my Triple 'O sauce fix. So that was lunch and the kids loved their pirate ships just as much as I remember Kait and I did.