How to have fun in Vancouver (for free!)

Friday Night: Go to a free concert featuring 4 choirs and 5 trombones in a Catholic cathedral downtown, put on by the 'cultural olympiad'. Maybe living in an Olympic host city isn't all construction and homeless people getting evicted...

Saturday Daytime: Go to an open house at the curling rink and spend an hour trying to learn how to balance while lunging on one foot on ice at the same time as you try to throw (and aim) a 25 pound block of marble. Consume vast quantities of donuts and coffee afterwards.

Saturday Evening: Make 12 pans of platz ('pie by the yard') with youth in a church basement, discovering the joys of exceedingly sticky dough and crumbling butter into sugar by hand.

Sunday Daytime: Lead a church sunday school, attend an annual general meeting, and clean up from the church lunch. Chase around small Spanish children with a vacuum while doing said cleaning.

Sunday Night: Wearing your most scandalous skimpy red dress, attend a Mardi Gras party and get fed hush puppies, shrimp gumbo, dirty rice, and Hurricanes (a very delicious form of mixed beverage). As a 'woman of ill repute,' name yourself 'Crimson Seychelle', and proceed to play footsies with everyone in the room with gay abandon.

All in all, an excellent weekend. Hopefully I'll be awake for my 8am greek class tomorrow...