Well, April Fool's came early this year as Google has release a Youtube video announcing a new job role at their company: Pokemon Master. Contestants have to find Pokemon hidden around the world using their smartphone and the Google Maps App.


If you have a couple of hours to spare, you can start searching for the the 150 Pokemon. According to the Youtube video, those that collect them all will be invited to Google headquarters to battle it out for the job. Hahah.


An obvious place to start would be Google headquarters. Then try searching for famous landmarks. Usually where there's one Pokemon, there may be others nearby so pan around to see if any are around. Sometimes you need to zoom in for them to appear.



Here's one Pokemon that is located in British Columbia! Search for Whistler Mountain!



You have until 2pm PT, April 2nd to collect them all! Good luck and have fun!

Original Joe's is celebrating 10 years in BC and is offering a $10 menu for the month of March. I went to the Cambie Street location with my family on Saturday when they had their 10 year party. We were told the wait was about 25 minutes but got a table way faster than that. It was a full house though. Because it was their party, they had prize giveaways and live music playing!

DRAGON BOAT LETTUCE WRAPS $10 roasted chicken and vegetables, chow mein noodles, cashews, cilantro and fresh lime; tossed in a hoisin peanut sauce and served with crisp romaine boats.

Dad ordered the Dragon Boat Lettuce Wraps but we all ended up trying it. It tasted great and had very good flavour!

LOADED DOUBLE DOG $10 two charbroiled european wieners, carmelized onions, cheddar cheese, bacon, banana peppers and our own mustard sauce, stuffed into a garlic grilled baguette.

We also shared a loaded double dog, which comes with two sides of your choice. We had the mixed green salad and fries. I liked the gravy that came with the fries. The hot dog wasn't anything special. It tasted ok and filled us up.

LONG BEACH FISH TACOS $10 blackened mahi mahi seared in a light chili lime sauce, avocado, lettuce, roma tomato, green onion, cilantro and our house made chipotle sauce, folded into lightly grilled flour tortillas.

I had the Long Beach Fish Tacos, which came with salsa and chips. I loved it! It was not spicy at all and also had great flavour. 

Today is the last day for you to take advantage of their $10 menu, so you'd better hurry!

Noodle Box, a Southeast Asian noodle bar chain, opened its doors in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood on Main Street at Broadway on Saturday, March 29th, 2014.


This location is one of many they have opened in BC. The concept is simple: you choose what style of noodles you want, your protein, spice level and any extras. Things can also be substituted in, how ever you want it.


To celebrate their grand opening, Noodle Box gave away free stir fry noodle boxes to everyone who visited! And any donations collected benefited the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House. All the staff was volunteering and the food was donated by the suppliers! What a great way to enter into the neighbourhood by supporting it! 


 Order at the counter,


 pick up your order on the side. I ordered the Pad Thai with beef, mild (because I'm a wuss).

While, we waited for our orders to be prepared, the staff distributed samples of Cambodian Spring Rolls. I liked that they had a little lettuce wrapped around it so that we didn't get our fingers dirty.

Our order came in a cool looking take out box. It is covered in the same illustrations that is on the left wall of the restaurant.

 They really packed in the noodles and toppings.


It smelled and tasted delicious! I thought it was a little salty but mmm it was still very good. 

Check out their website at www.thenoodlebox.net for more information.

Cars, cars, and more cars! It is the 94th year of the Vancouver International Autoshow and I spent Saturday afternoon perusing through all the sexy cars courtesy of Chevrolet Canada and Klout!


The Vancouver International Auto Show is Canada’s third largest Auto Show, and one of Western North America’s premier automotive exhibition events. There were so many squeaky clean cars on display it took a good four hours to go through the entire floor.

I'm glad that Chevrolet has set up a charging station! So you can Instagram all your favourite cars without having to worry about running out of juice.

Here are some of my favourites cars:

Chevrolet Corvette Stringray

I love the blue and the sleek lines of the Stringray. 

Chevrolet 2014 Camaro Z/28

Matte Black Lamborghini

This was one sexy Lamborghini. I'm pretty sure everyone was salivating over this car. Kind of reminded me of Batman!

 Looks great from the back too!

Honda Fit

 I love the blue accents on the BMW i8!

 Cute wings on the Smart Fortwo.



The Vancouver International Auto Show is held at the Vancouver Convention Centre West and is on for one more day! For more information or to buy tickets online, please visit vancouverinternationalautoshow.com.


I've posted more photos of the cars on my Facebook page:

Friday, March 28, 2014

UBC Bookstore's New Release Party
Friday 28 Vancouver: 9:30 - 5:30pm
Saturday 29 Vancouver: 11 - 5pm
UBC Bookstore, 6200 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC
The UBC Bookstore in Vancouver will celebrate its new space and look in March and April, while the Okanagan also celebrates the Bookstore's new look. Mar28: Join UBC students and campus partners in bringing you activities around the 'word' theme. Music, bands and dance, a huge FREE pastry breakfast with coffee, food throughout the day, authors, and not to be missed, great deals on clothing and gifts. Mar29: Family activities including face-painting, balloon twisting, giant games and readings from children's books. Enjoy a FREE pastry breakfast with coffee in partnership with Starbucks and Food Services followed by Fair Trade pancakes in partnership with Engineers Without Borders. FREE MEC injury prevention running clinic.

Vancouver International Auto Show - $15
Friday: 12pm - 10pm
Saturday: 10am - 10pm
Sunday: 10am - 4pm
Vancouver Convention Centre West in Vancouver, BC 1055 Canada Place
The Vancouver International Auto Show is Canada’s third largest Auto Show, and one of Western North America’s premier automotive exhibition events.

Starbucks Coffee Tasting
2pm - 3pm 
Friday, March 28: Pike Place Roast     
Saturday, March 29: Starbucks® Tribute Blend
Starbucks Stores
Join us in store this week for a coffee tasting Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 2-3pm and find your perfect roast. Are you light & bright like Blonde Roast? Balanced like Medium Roast? Or bold like our Dark Roast? Join us in celebrating our collective passion for coffee. #coffeelove

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Fresh, local, organic foods & crafts. 60+ vendors, hot food, music! Rain or Shine!

Spade to Spoon - $5
10am - 4pm
Lord Strathcona Elementary, 593 East Pender Street
Get inspired to grow a little. This homegrown event will introduce you to some local people and resources that can help you build a better garden as well as add some real deliciousness to your table.  Peter Ladner will talk on The Urban Food Revolution (and book signing).  Entertainment: Movies including Meet your Local Urban Farmer and Truck Farm  Demonstrations include: growing your own mushrooms, a composting workshop with Homesteaders Emporium, marvellous microgreens (healthy and fun), how to make a self watering container, and all about honey.

Eastside Artisan's Market
10am - 5pm
Woodward's Atrium 111 W Hastings St Vancouver, BC
On March 29th, come join us to see the Woodward’s Atrium transform into a hive of handmade & locally produced goods! Vancouver’s popular modern day flea market, The Eastside Flea, comes together with the spirited Eastside Artists Company to bring you a phenomenal collection of over 65 local artisans, artists and craftsmen in the heart of the city!

Vancouver International Auto Show - $15
Friday: 12pm - 10pm
Saturday: 10am - 10pm
Sunday: 10am - 4pm
Vancouver Convention Centre West in Vancouver, BC 1055 Canada Place
The Vancouver International Auto Show is Canada’s third largest Auto Show, and one of Western North America’s premier automotive exhibition events.

Bakers Dozen
11 am - 3pm
River District Centre, 8683 Kerr Street, Vancouver
Baker’s Dozen is an indoors baked goods market hosted by River District Centre.  For all five Sundays in March, 13 local bakers will have the opportunity to sell their delicious creations down by the river!  Best of all, admission is FREE!

UBC Bookstore's New Release Party
Friday 28 Vancouver: 9:30 - 5:30pm
Saturday 29 Vancouver: 11 - 5pm
UBC Bookstore, 6200 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC
The UBC Bookstore in Vancouver will celebrate its new space and look in March and April, while the Okanagan also celebrates the Bookstore's new look. Mar28: Join UBC students and campus partners in bringing you activities around the 'word' theme. Music, bands and dance, a huge FREE pastry breakfast with coffee, food throughout the day, authors, and not to be missed, great deals on clothing and gifts. Mar29: Family activities including face-painting, balloon twisting, giant games and readings from children's books. Enjoy a FREE pastry breakfast with coffee in partnership with Starbucks and Food Services followed by Fair Trade pancakes in partnership with Engineers Without Borders. FREE MEC injury prevention running clinic.

Noodle Box Grand Opening
12pm - 5pm
Noodle Box, 2511 Main Street, Vancouver BC
GRAND OPENING: FREE Noodle Boxes (donations encouraged) and TONS of Community Spirit!  Mount Pleasant’s Noodle Box‘s Grand Opening  event – benefiting the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House – means the SW corner of Main Street and East Broadway will be buzzing. HELP OUT! All donations received benefit the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House. Limit one free box per customer; offer only applicable to stir fry.

Starbucks Coffee Tasting
2pm - 3pm 
Friday, March 28: Pike Place Roast     
Saturday, March 29: Starbucks® Tribute Blend
Starbucks Stores
Join us in store this week for a coffee tasting Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 2-3pm and find your perfect roast. Are you light & bright like Blonde Roast? Balanced like Medium Roast? Or bold like our Dark Roast? Join us in celebrating our collective passion for coffee. #coffeelove

Great Bear Vancouver - by donation
6pm - 10pm
UBC Ross Beaty Lecture Theater, (Room 1013) Earth Sciences Bldg, 
2207 Main Mall Vancouver, BC
The UBC Surf Club presents:  Protecting the Great Bear:  Ethics, Ecology, and the Economic imperative of Grizzly Conservation   Raincoast and our supporters have acquired the commercial trophy hunting rights in over 28,000 km2 of BC's Great Bear Rainforest (GBR). We now stand poised to complete the job. View an exclusive photo essay by renowned nature photographer, Brad Hill, and join a discussion with Raincoast's Brian Falconer about how this compelling conservation initiative could protect coastal grizzly bears and other large carnivores throughout the entire GBR. Enter our event raffle for a chance to win wildlife prints from Brad Hill, Raincoast books and DVD's, and more!

Hawkers Market 1 Year Anniversary - $10
6pm -12am 
East Van Studios, 870 East Cordova, Vancouver
Come celebrate the Hawkers Market first year anniversary of invigorating local food culture and entrepreneurship with us on March 29th 2014.  Eat Electric Jelly Doughnuts One Night Only!  @ the "Do It Urself" doughnut bar! Hawkers Market is a monthly recurring underground evening food marketplace in Vancouver. We support local vibrant food entrepreneurs and give them a place to conduct pop up food stalls (or hawker stands) to sell their food or products. They are chefs, artisans and dreamers and they know their food! Expect a diverse selection of things to eat at the market and take home to try. The market acts as a dining, shopping and social experience.

Earth Hour
8:30pm - 9:30pm
Everywhere
Earth Hour, an annual global event hosted by the World Wildlife Fund and supported provincially by BC Hydro, encourages individuals to show their support for the fight against climate change. Join the city and switch off your lights for an hour!

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Vancouver International Auto Show - $15
Friday: 12pm - 10pm
Saturday: 10am - 10pm
Sunday: 10am - 4pm
Vancouver Convention Centre West in Vancouver, BC 1055 Canada Place
The Vancouver International Auto Show is Canada’s third largest Auto Show, and one of Western North America’s premier automotive exhibition events.

RevScene 14th Annual Spring Meet
11:00 am to 3:00 pm
Spanish Banks, Vancouver, British Columbia  
The RS Spring Meet is back and bigger than ever. You’ve been waiting all Winter to showcase your latest rides and mods – What better way than the RS Spring Meet. For fourteen years, this has been a family-friendly event and it definitely won’t disappoint. Show up and be ready to see some great cars, bikes and friendly faces! All are welcome. This is an open club event; we only ask that you bring your best behaviour and smile!  Note: There will be FOOD TRUCKS – So bring your appetite!

Blim Market - by donation
12–6 PM
Heritage Hall (Main St. × 15th Ave.)
Spring is here! Refresh your home and closet with curious knick-knacks and some unique gifts for those spring babies at the first Blim community market of the year. Mark your calendars for the Blim Market on Sunday, March 30 from 12 to 6 PM at the Main St. Heritage Hall.  This month, the Blim Market will feature:      Handmade accessories, jewellery, vintage, pottery, cards, gifts, baked goods, gourmet chocolates, sweets and more from 50 local vendors     Hot food by in-house cook Open Sesame     Two free raffle draws for dog surprises at 2 PM & 4 PM

The Blue Man Group was a feast for the eyes and ears! Super funny and clever, the Blue Men uses paints, lighting, electronic screens, drums, movement and the infamous Drumbone featuring PVC plumbing pipes to create a show that is unlike any other. If you ever wanted to hear Beethoven's Fur Elise played on PVC pipes here's your chance! I've never seen the group perform before and I had a blast at this show! You'll be laughing one moment and in awe the next, but rest assured you'll be smiling through out the whole thing.   

For their big finale, the Blue Men got everyone off their seats and invited us to shake our butts off with the music. It was super fun party with the giant beach balls and streamers. I just wished that more of the people around me had treated it like a rock concert and not just stand there doing nothing unless a ball came nearby. I mean come on! DANCE! The music is so catchy! And the Blue Men even gave us rock concert move lessons! Shake those buttcakes! (After seeing the Blue Man Group, you'll leave an expert on concert moves and with a whole new vocabulary on butts as well. ;P)


People of all ages can enjoy this show! The performance last about 90 minutes and there are no intermissions. Make sure you are not late or you will get a big surprise!

If you are sensitive to strobe lights you may want to close your eyes in the beginning. There was a lot of audience interaction during the show! The Blue Men would make their way into the audience and a few times invited a lucky audience member to the stage! Make sure to sit in the front rows or aisle seats for a better chance to be picked. Wear clothes that you will not be afraid to get paint on. That includes shoes!

After the show is over, you'll be able take photos with members the band and see the artwork that created during the show!

The Blue Man Group is performing at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre from now until March 30th. Please visit Broadway Across Canada for more information and to purchase tickets. This is a show you won't want to miss!


Disclosure: I received tickets to the show from Broadway Across Canada. No other compensation was received. The opinions expressed in this post are entirely my own and have not been influenced in any other way.