Okay, lunch. Where would you send us? Calhoun's Bakery Café and Catering, in the heart of Kitsilano. When you go there, you will see study groups, you will see dates, you will see businesspeople with laptops open. It's this huge space where there are tons and tons of tables. You can sit there for hours, having only one cup of coffee, and nobody is going to kick you out. So it's a really great place to be if you want to be somewhere in the day and have work to get done or studying to do or anything like that. I hung out there so much.

Being a waitress helped you make ends meet. Where did you work? I used to work at a chain of restaurants called Earls. I think I worked at three or four different Earls as a waitress. On the west coast of Canada, it's a huge chain that is very trendy, and people love to go there. It's very young and very hip and relatively inexpensive for what you get. They always have Margarita Mondays and Martini Tuesdays and things like that. You can find them pretty much in any sector of the city.

I understand you're pretty good at climbing trees. I love climbing trees. I actually did it in the Philippines, because in Vancouver, and pretty much anywhere in Canada, there are not a lot of great climbing trees. Mostly evergreen trees - very uncomfortable to climb. When I was in the Philippines, I was suddenly surrounded by these trees that were extraordinarily climbable. I got really into tree climbing at that point. Now that I'm living in Hawaii, climbing trees couldn't be more easy if I were a monkey.

Where are your favorite places to shop? You know, I've never been a shopper. Before I had this job, I never had money. So I usually buy a new article of clothing once every three or four years. Everyone says if you want to go shopping, go to Robson Street. But I think that for more interesting shopping in Vancouver, there's a street called Granville, and Granville Street, once you pass out of the downtown core and head out toward the airport, crosses over West Broadway. At the intersection of Granville and West Broadway, up from that road, there is more-eclectic shopping, shops that are more local.