{"id":18874,"date":"2015-03-21T01:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T07:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18874"},"modified":"2015-03-21T01:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T07:10:27","slug":"a-report-from-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/03\/a-report-from-vancouver.html","title":{"rendered":"A report from Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18875\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/Teahouse-Conservatory3-1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18875\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/Teahouse-Conservatory3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Where we had dinner tonight.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We ate in the conservatory at The Teahouse. Note English Bay, in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I spoke early this afternoon at the New Westminster campus of Douglas College, on \u201cIslam, ISIS, and the Media.\u201d \u00a0Good audience, excellent questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, we went to dinner with our hosts and another couple at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vancouverdine.com\/teahouse\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Teahouse<\/a> in Stanley Park. \u00a0My wife ordered the Pacific Roasted Sablefish, I ordered the Fresh BC Salmon, and we shared. \u00a0Fantastic. \u00a0I really recommend this restaurant, for more than just the view.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18876\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/640px-English_Bay_Vancouver_BC.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18876\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/640px-English_Bay_Vancouver_BC-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"English Bay, Vancouver\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of English Bay<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But we didn\u2019t order dessert there. \u00a0Instead, we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacasagelato.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">La Casa Gelato<\/a>, which bills itself as \u2014 and may well be \u2014 \u201cThe ONLY place in the WORLD with 218 Flavours on Location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They actually have <em>518<\/em> flavors \u2014 or, umm, <em>flavours<\/em> \u2014 in their repertoire, but that have room enough to put only 218 on sale at a time. \u00a0And the variety is astonishing. \u00a0I sampled such rarities as wasabi, bacon and peanut butter, and aged balsamic vinegar, but\u00a0I passed on kimchee, seaweed, pineapple poppyseed, chocolate chili, and a host of others before settling on a quite conventional medley of praline with Toblerone.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A place like this would, I think, flourish among the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormons<\/a> of Utah. \u00a0They don\u2019t smoke. \u00a0They don\u2019t drink. \u00a0But, in my experience at least, they can really eat ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I spoke early this afternoon at the New Westminster campus of Douglas College, on \u201cIslam, ISIS, and the Media.\u201d \u00a0Good audience, excellent questions. \u00a0 In the evening, we went to dinner with our hosts and another couple at The Teahouse in Stanley Park. \u00a0My wife ordered the Pacific Roasted Sablefish, I ordered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A report from Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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