Craziness in Yaletown

Well this has been an absolutely mad week with lots of ups and down. It started off with actress Anne Heche (use to be Ellen Degeneres's girlfriend then she went back to dudes) coming into marimekko she was with her Men in trees co-star and boyfriend. They had already bought quite a bit from design house and she asked about kids stuff and they sent her down to us. That was the first major star that I have seen here, you always see in the paper so and so was spotted leaving blah dee blah but I always seem to miss them.

The next bit of excitement was or well scandal was the new manager at marimekko quit after 2 weeks, she didn't think it was busy enough, but hello what do you expect its a new shop. I thought that was going to be the highlight of friday how I was wrong.

I was working at design house on friday and it had been kinda quiet for while that afternoon, at 5pm a guy comes rushing into the store. I was standing at the end of the counter and Sonja (one of the managers) was standing behind the till. The guy got to about a metre away from the counter lifted up his top to show us the gun poked into the top of his pants and said "give me all the money". he then went on to say "don't ring anyone and no one gets hurt" with that my phone instantly goes bbbbrrrring telling me i had a text message i couldn't believe it, no one else actually noticed i thought it was quite loud though. he said something about being a robber and "I really need the money if i don't get the money I'm going to get whacked tonight". We gave him the money and he shoved it in his bag and took off. The store is kinda L shaped and brian was right round the back and hadn't realised anything had happened. We rang the police and they arrived pretty quickly, and had to give a description and a statement. You all know about my freaky mega memory (as scott puts it) yeah that went out the window, I could only describe the bag, his grey baseball cap that was on backwards and he was wearing aviator sunglasses, as well as basic things like 6 footish caucasion. need less to say we shut the shop early as there wasn't much point staying open when we had no money. Sonja usually walks home which takes like 40 mins so I told her to come home with me and Scott could give her a ride home when he got home. So we went home and had a drink and talked about it and had a bit of a laugh, scott got a bit tied up at work and Sonja decided she was ok now so went home. The cops were just as surprised that it had happened as we were, one said "well this is the first armed hold up in a furniture store I've been to, its usually banks this time of year". He only got $360, the stereos on the shelf behind him were worth twice that. he obviously wasn't too bright hello who goes into a furniture store and buys a couch with cash I mean really! the cafe across the road probably had more cash on hand.

Tune in next time for our winter escapades.

Catch you guys later.

love Monique and Scott