Count Down Clock 01 Jan 27 2010_DSC9578

Count Down Clock 01 Jan 27 2010_DSC9578, originally uploaded by VancouverDoug.

16 days, 4 hours, 12 minutes and 6 seconds till the party begins. Now all we gotta do is truck in about 10 million kilos of snow from Alberta and we're ready to rock.

And, as any Vancouverite knows, last week was the start of our spring. The trees are budding, the days are getting longer, the eagles are flying south to eat American salmon rather than BC's best and throngs of tourists have begun to croud out the locals.

As my grandmother used to say "Guests are like fish (salmon in this case). After two days they start to smell. How are we going to manage for 2 weeks? :)