Surrey: The Future Lives Here...uh...maybe not...

It's really enjoyable living in Surrey with all the things that happen here. We live on 96th Avenue which is a thoroughfare from King George Highway all the way to 120th Street. So hence it's busy as hell.

I was enjoying "Hamburger Hill" (a movie) last night on AMC when I heard sirens and screeching brakes. I peer out and there's three RCMP cruisers and an BC Ambulance Services EMT attending "I don't know what" across the street. As far as I know they were there about two hours. Took the opportunity to snap a pic from the basement window.

Did I mention I enjoy living in Surrey? ~rolling eyes~

We went to Morgan Crossing down in South Surrey/White Rock and stopped in at two places on Friday. Store 83 (London Drugs at Morgan Crossing) and the Wal-Mart Super Centre. Evidently, they have everything at a WalMart Super Centre; even a carwash.



This was my first time being in a WalMart Super Centre and the place was just enormous. You could happily get lost in a SuperCentre and spend the whole day there. Evidently they're also turning the WalMart at Guildford into a SuperCentre as well. But that's going to take a while.



We also had the opportunity to stop by the newest London Drugs store and visit. We saw some of my wife's old work-mates from Store 8 at the newest store. What surprises me though is the close proximity to store 73 that 83 is. It's only 3 blocks away.



In the afternoon, though, I went over to Vancouver and picked up plants from Mom's place. Her move is going slow, as she doesn't want to be out of the other place until December.

Off to School

Have to take the kids into school this morning, as I have had other mornings during the weeks that school has been in session. Well, we've moved from the townhouse to a half-duplex that seems to be a lot more comfy in terms of size. It's nice, it's larger and though we've lost a little in size in terms of bedrooms, it's a lot nicer as the kids have a backyard to play in and our bedroom doesn't have as much wasted space. Our living room seems to be huge.

Well, it is 7:38AM which means I'm going to have to chase the two little squirts around...and I'll have more about where I've been later. Plan on taking some pics on the way to school.

Back from taking the kids to school and my shots on the way in were with a Nikon Coolpix L11 so hence the reason why they're snaps.

On 96th there's an empty lot that has stood empty for several years. Until just this past month, where there's been a flurry of activity on it. It's evidently being turned into one of those new cheap construction but sells for 3/4 million big homes that takes up half the lot and they've cut down every damned tree on the lot. Figures.



I'm not too fond of the street 96th Avenue as it is one of the major east-west thoroughfares. They've made it double-lane and it's busy as hell. I tell my kids to walk well away from the curb. As you can see they listen quite well...yeah...right!



At least 132nd Street is a little quieter.



This is the monster house that I keep seeing as I walk down 132nd Street. This epitomizes everything I hate about monster houses. There's absolutely no taste to this home. It's big, it's friggin' ugly, and it's square...there's a small patch of grass that they try to pass off as landscaping...and otherwise they've cemented over the whole damned lot. In real estate terms I would call it a New Delhi Special as opposed to a Hong Kong Special.



Walking down the street towards my kids' school. I prefer this school due to the fact that the kids enjoy going to school there as opposed to going to the school in their assigned cachement area.



What really annoys me is that most of the traffic do not obey the posted speedlimit and persist in screaming through the school zone at a blistering 50-80 km/hr. And yet it is posted, plain as day, for everyone to see...



I guess the last generation raised a generation of idiots.