The Province of Vancouver

Would you believe that over these last few *ahem* five *ahem* months I've had a gazillion and some blog post ideas. Everything from nuclear bombs (February Netflix-athon) to ranting about people not responding to Facebook Event Invites (this morning). However my computer over heats if the room window is shut, and with the window open my room gets cold.

I'm also very good at procrastinating and making excuses.

Anywho today I am going to blow your mind with crazy crazy revelation. Are you ready? Are you sure? This might actually blow your thinking thing. OK ready? Strap on your seat belt. OK here it is:

The province of British Columbia is more then just the city of Vancouver!

Shocking right?!?!

Okay to be fair its more like, the province of BC is actually more then the Lower Mainland.

What brought on this you ask? Well today I was reading a Facebook thing "You Might be from British Columbia If" and 11 of  the 34 items were Vancouver and Lower Mainland related. 6 items could be used to anywhere in Canada and maybe maybe 3 items that I would actually say are BC wide. And before you point out that I live near Vancouver and so can't justifiably point out what it is like in the rest of BC I shall counter that and point out that I have lived in Northern BC, the Interior of BC and the Lower Mainland. I think I classify as qualified.

I remember as a child not being able to play on the playground at school over winter because there was so much snow that the playground was not accessible. Or my favourite memory was I had this round sled that kinda looked like a trashcan lid, and my Dad drilled a hole in it put a rope through it and tied it to our German Sheppard. And then with me on the sled, Dad and the dog went running. It was so much fun until we went around a corner too fast and I lost my grip on the handles, went flying and hit a house. I remember snowball fights being forbidden at school because there might be ice in the snowball that could cause an injury.

Speaking of which one difference between all of BC and the soaked coast of BC takes place at recess. So as a child recess and lunch break was always outside with only two exceptions

1) The temperature was -20* Celsius BEFORE the windchill
2) It was raining

Now in the Lower Mainland having an inside recess because it is raining would be a little impractical and not to mention improbable. But the LM also has two exceptions for outside recess

1) The temperature is too cold. I don't know the exact temperature because I was in high school by then but I think it's somewhere around -5* Celsius
2) Its snowing

Very very different and yet both inexplicably both BC.

I would say the perks of some of the rest of BC would be:

• Thunderstorms
• Northern Lights
• White Christmas. Every. Year.
• Hot hot summers
• Its actually dark out for Halloween
• Snow (I cannot believe I just said that. I hate snow. I really do. Kind of. I don't actually know, I'm kinda on the fence about snow right now)

The perks of the Lower Mainland BC would be:

• It doesn't get cold in the winter really
• Puddle jumping (if you're cool like that)
• Spring conceivably starts early
• No snow (except that's not a perk in December around Christmas)
• Two international airports for easy traveling
• Because of the excess rain the flowers here are abundant and beautiful

See both Real BC and perceived BC are beautiful and unique. And seeing as there is no end to the wrong perception of our beautiful province I propose that we split BC. So all the parts of BC that are actually like Canada will stay the Province of British Columbia. And then the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island will the the Province of Vancouver, to end the confusion.

Hailey :)

PS: I was joking. We should not split BC up. Don't do it!