I’ve lived in a lot of different cities across a few different countries. I recently came back to Vancouver for a lot of reasons–one of which is just the sheer diversity of faces, colours, tastes, etc. For example, on a signle afternoon about two weeks ago my girlfriend, a freind from Seattle, and I hit a family-friendly gay parade, a street festival in Chinatown, an open air faire in Oppenheimer park, a tour of Japantown’s history, and finished it all off with some fireworks.