Christina is
marrying Cesar next weekend (not to be confused with her brother Cesar
-- maybe they're both spelled Caesar but they're pronounced 'Seh-sar').
That confused me for a while. Christina's Cesar (who I will denote
C-Cesar to avoid repetitiveness) is 29 and a little younger than
Christina. Meanwhile, Cesar is 35 and has a girlfriend, Ping Li. Don't
know how serious they are though she does spend a lot of time with him.
As for Carolina;s boyfriend?
Last night both Cesars and I went out to play pool where I was soundly
beaten. Apparently they used to play a lot with Adolfo but girlfriends
have gotten in the way. C-Cesar is a computer guy, having worked at
several jobs doing everything from Networking to Game Programming. He
says he doesn't love programming, though once he starts the work day
time flies by. Cesar studied programming in college but doesn't like
it. He now works managing one of his uncle's grocery stores. We visited
the store today -- well run and it looks like he gets along well with
the workers.
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Today Cesar
drove me around Vancouver. We went to a beach and watched the people
walking by. Then we drove through Stanley Park. Apparently quite large,
filled with people and also quite empty. Far larger than Golden Gate
Park in San Francisco. We also through through the University of
British Columbia, Vancouver. The architecture didn't impress me. The
older buildings are solid looking and have character. The newer
buildings for the most part look too much like they belong in a
community college.
There are no highways in Vancouver proper. Highway 99 ends and becomes
regular city streets within the city. Yet traffic, though there is a
lot, is not as bad as in the Bay Area. Probably because the drivers are
not as cutthroat. Although freeways are great when going fairly sizable
distances, they do tend to cut up a city into parts, channeling traffic
into the few streets that cut through the freeway to the other side.
There are also lots of traffic lights for pedestrians. In other words,
the side streets have regular stop signs while the main street has a
traffic light blinking green to signify that it could start turning red
for pedestrian traffic. Contrast this with California, where we would
just have a regular traffic light that is green all the time.
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