Greek Days

Paul and I have had a Sunday morning tradition since long before Sydney was born of waking up super early in the morning and taking a long leisurely walk to Granville Island for coffee at JJ Bean.  (By the way for those of you in Vancouver, this is arguably the best cup of coffee you can find in the city!)  Since Sydney's been born, we have been keeping up the tradition and today was no exception.  We awoke to a beautiful, sunny day and took our babe for a stroll to Granville Island for coffee and a walk around the market.  Sydney loves feeding the birds there too which has now become part of the Sunday morning tradition!

It was such a beautiful morning that we dawdled back to the car and stopped at Kits beach for a while to enjoy the ocean, we are so blessed to live in Vancouver!

To round the day off, we took Sydney down to Broadway for Greek Days, a street party celebration of all things Greek, which happens once a year on a Sunday in June!  It was such fun, music, dancing, great food, free balloons and popcorn and cotton candy...Syd was in heaven!  One of the best things about Greek Days is the amazing food that is cooked up right on the street, I had the chance to try a Lamb Souvlakia Pita from the Nu Aegean Cusina Restaurant.  It was absolutely delicious, the lamb was seasoned and cooked to perfection!  To finish off, I had a heaping pile of loukoumades which are Greek donuts made with honey syrup, to die for!  Check out the cute little Greek flag toothpick stuck in the top! 

They were handing out both Canadian and Greek flags for the kids, Sydney got one of each.  She is obsessed with the Canadian flag, points it out to me wherever we go.  I kept trying to get a picture of her holding both the Canadian and Greek flag together but she just wouldn't give up clutching tightly to her Canadian flag.  My little patriot!  Should come in handy next week for Canada Day!  Notice how crumpled the Canadian flag is compared to the Greek one? 

 

All in all it was a perfect Sunday with both the loves of my life!