The downside of working in the hospitality industry is that most times you have to work stat holidays. That kinda puts a damper on celebrating said stat holidays with friends and families.
The upside? Some hotels perks, likes staying over and room service. Good thing Sean was such a good egg about it.
Christmas greetings from Casa de Sullichan!
Feeling flouncey at the Icon Christmas party with the fella at Harbour Centre’s Top of Vancouver.
And the view of downtown Vancouver at 553.16 feet was just alright.
Snowpocalypse. Snowmageddon. Snowzilla. Snowcouver.
Call it whatever you want, it just won’t stop snowing. The snow came down fast, furious and has lasted a good number of weeks. We’ve had a fresh dump every few days. Sean keeps shovelling the snow to the side and creating waist-high snowbanks. We’ve used our cars a total of 3 times in the past few weeks, in between snow days and after Sean shovelled us out.
I may not have a Xmas tree (yet), but I have a Xmas name.
Samta Claus. Mistlero. Derrick the Halls.
I’m following some friends leads + have Christmas-ized my name. Point me in the direction of Santa’s workshop. I sound like an elf.
It’s my 2nd year of being a part of Pan Pacific’s amazing Christmas Wish Breakfast! And I recruited some of my influencer friends to help celebrate and spread the word!
Every year, the Pan Pacific holds its epic toy drive – one of the largest in Canada. Vancouverites are invited to come down and donate a new, unwrapped toy to the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau, in order to make Christmas special for families in need. As a thank you, the hotel provides a complimentary, hot buffet breakfast on the house. the event has been going strong – it’s now in its 29th year!
Every year, our hospital’s foundation puts up their Lights of Hope display in front of the entrance to St. Paul’s Hospital. Featuring over 10km of lights, 100,000 bulbs and hundreds of sponsored stars, it is our biggest fundraiser of the year, raising much needed funds for the hospital’s greatest needs.
Last year, a record $3.15M was raised over the holidays. Since its inception in 1998, the Lights of Hope has raised over $28M, funding equipment throughout the hospital including the ER and maternity ward.
We do love Halloween. We are Ash vs the Evil Dead + Medusa the gorgon.
It wasn’t so much of a haunted house. It was more like a sweat box, heaving with millennials, but that’s where my friends chose to get their spook on, so that’s where I went.
The iconic East Van institution did offer three floors of music, 5 theme rooms, a burlesque show and Polynesian tiki bar decor for the halloween festivities. But boy, did the youngsters make us feel old. Or gold.
