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Few and far between

My blog entries are getting farther and farther apart, aren't they. We did so much neat stuff the weekend before last that I knew I'd need a good amount of time to write about it all, but the time to do that never materialized.
Then, after another weekend passed, and even more fun stuff to write about piled up, I started to shudder at the amount of writing I'd have to do to catch up.

Well, here I am, and I don't have much time, but I figured I'd better blog about what we've been up to, lest I never get to it. Unfortunately, this entry is going to be the cliff-notes version - I wish I could expound a bit, but hey, time is of the essense here ... better the cliff notes than nothing at all... am I right?

So, two weekends ago, Carole and I went to the Vancouver Zoo, in Aldergrove... or was it Langley... all I know is, it used to be called the Vancouver Game Farm, and the last/only time I was there must have been 25 years ago at least. It was actually a lot of fun, and a nice relaxing way to spend a nice clear fall afternoon - especially since all the rains started the very next day! We saw lots of rare and 'technically extinct' animals, some nifty exotic animals like lions and tigers and panthers and giraffes and even a rhino. Monkeys, birds, lizards, crocs, snakes, even humpty back camels! Anybody feel like singing Irish Rovers yet?

I took lots of picture with the digital camera, but just nver found the time to upload them here... sorry.

For Thanksgiving, we didn't have any family dinners planned, and didn't really feel like making anything, so Carole and I headed up to Hazzards at the golf accademy for their traditional thanksgiving turkey sandwich brunch. Okay, not exactly the traditional Thanksgiving, but the comapny was nice, and that's all that counts, right?.

Fast forward through a week of work (and one Wednesday night rehearsal, which ended at 12:30AM) and we're up to last weekend. Friday night we had a couple of friends that just moved to our neibourhood over to play poker and have a few drinks, which was a really nice time. Then Sunday, the two of us spent the day in North Van, checking out the old stomping grounds, going back to where Carole grew up, stuff like that... the ol' drive through remeniscent country ;-)
We then had lunch at the Huricaine Grill, which seems to be called something new every single year (but this incarnation is the best yet - by light years), then we headed to the new Park Royal Village to checkout all the neat new shops. After that it was a walk on the West Van Seawall, and a quite night at home watching movies.

I actually had Monday OFF (can you believe it????) and so I was up early, and doing chores - cleaning the basement, painting some trim, putting a new medicine cabinet into the master bathroom, grocery shopping, and stuff like that. Actually, I ran out of things to do in the early afternoon, so I worked on soone new liqueur recipes - I'm hoping to be hosting a party soon, and thought I'd get some nifty new drinks ready for da shindig.

Tonight we're going to the Alice Cooper concert downtown. On Sunday we're seeing Judas Priest, so I'll definately have something to write about in a week. Hopefully I can find the time to do it!

Posted by Calvin at October 19, 2005 11:10 AM