VancouBrrrrr

Someone rename this place to that. It is cold. Yes, Alaska is colder but am from chennai where anything below 10degrees celsius is "unusual" and 3degrees is inhuman. 0degrees is only theoretical. When the rest of the city walks with just an overcoat, you are advertising the fact that you are a tourist when you are wearing that skull cap and a pair of woolen gloves. If some paranoid cop is around, you are probably advertising that you are a planning a bank robbery with that skull-cap pulled so close down your scalp. But Thanks, I'd rather dodge bullets than getting partially paralysed.

In certain circles, I am called Rob Mckenna. I think I have the inherent capability of awakening water spirits wherever I go. But this time, the water spirits just didnt wake up. They performed a full-fledged orchestral symphony. It was bright and sunny until the flight reduced altitude into seattle. And then it rained. It rained like God was engrossed in the latest episode of "Kolangal" and forgot to shut down the garden hose. Right from the moment we landed in seattle uptill the time we came to vancouver holding our lives between two arbitrary lanes of the Interstate 5, trying hard to avoid aquaplaning (which I have read only in books) and gruesome death by roadkill (which seemed like reality at one point of time). It was like someone was deputed with the sole purpose of sitting on the top of our car and pour buckets of water on a regular basis. Whoever it was, did it exceedingly well.

But the clincher of the trip was three apparently unconnected events.
A. Me and my colleague deciding to save some costs for the company and deciding to share a room.
B. The stewardess asking more than once if we needed one room or two.
C. Me trying to figure out places to visit in Vancouver and Google sardonically including www.gayvancouver.net

We insisted on having separate umbrellas to walk in the rain.