So last weekend, we were originally planning on another walk along the ocean, and a late lunch at this really nice vegan restaurant. The night before hand though, somehow the topic of Irish Times (one of our nicer pubs downtown) came up and we both talked about how neither one of us have ever been there and we've both always wanted to. So we decided to add it to the list of things to do.
So we got up early, made a really nice breakfast of hashbrowns, sauteed kale, and cooked veggie hotdog pieces. We very rarely have a nice cooked home breakfast together so we didn't want to miss out on just because we had plans. This was after all Derek's first full weekend in about a month.
After Breakfast we packed our things and headed out. Our first stop as soon as we got downtown was straight through Beacon Hill to the ocean like last time. This time, however, was a much warmer, sunnier day. My favourite kind of day! When we stopped by Beacon Hill, we walked past one of the ponds, and I was so stoked to see turtles! I have never in my entire life seen a real turtle, and there was 14 of them! I thought it was so amazing! We also saw a couple peacocks, so beautifully coloured and peaceful even with us so close to them. We then headed to the water. So we took our time walking along the rocks beside the ocean and stopped a few times to sit in the sun and look at rocks (Derek as a slight addiction to looking at neat rocks and then taking them home). It was beautiful and so serene out there. I absolutely love being near the ocean.
After our really peaceful walk, we headed towards downtown and on the way stopped at a little saturday market, where Derek bought me a tie die shirt because he knew I always wanted one. I've worn almost every day since! After that we headed to Rebar, the little vegan restaurant where we were astonished at the expensive prices of simple dishes. But we enjoyed it anyway! I got a quinoa salad and a really good green juice and Derek got a tuna sandwich with a beer.
Afterwords, we needed time to kill before going to Irish Times Pub. So we walked around some stores, and Derek bought a new pair of Sanuks because the ones I bought him last year were so worn and sun bleached. We then walked along the inner Harbour where people were set up with artwork, and drawings, there were musicians, and many natives with beautiful dreamcatchers and carvings. I even found my dream hippie van in my ideal colour!
So when we went into Irish Times Pub finally, and were sitting there waiting for our drinks, we got talking about how Bard and Banker Pub was only two blocks away and just as nice and that maybe we should just grab one drink here and one drink there before calling it a day. We got our drinks, mine with the most amazing name: Electric Unicorn! And I decided to splurge from my vegan diet and we ordered a giant plate of nachos to share. And oh my god they were amazing!
After our beers and our amazing food, was when we decided, well hey, we both loved the more simple, older styled pub right across the street, so why not make a quick stop there for a beer as well? And so we did, we headed over to Garroch's Head Pub and sat up in this little nook at the end. It had a vintage feel to it, this pub, and it wasn't as ridiculously fancy and.. well slutty as the last one (in terms of what the waitresses had to wear). I had the Gypsy Tears beer, which I think was my favourite beer of the night! We both agreed by the end of the night that this one was our favourite pub. We sat there for a long time just talking and enjoying our time, talking about tattoos!
We then headed over to our last stop, Bard and Banker Pub. This one was the more full pub of the three and we got seated near where there was a stage, not knowing which day was their live music day. I ordered a sample tray of 4 different beers, and loved the white bark one. This, and Dereks one tall beer were supposed to be our last of the night, but after those, we were feeling a little intoxicated and ended up ordering GIANT glasses of beer each and ordering more food. I had amazing hummus and bread, and Derek got the calamari, that he some how managed to convince me to try (haven't had any in almost two years) and it was the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten! I wanted to spit it out right away! And then to make the night even better, we found out that, that was the live music night, and that the band was going to be playing RIGHT in front of us! We got to this pub at around 6:30, and didn't leave until close to midnight, not part of our plan at all! But we were drunk and enjoying the music way too much. It was a perfect end before our hour and a half walk home along the Gorge.
~~ Justine
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