Monday, November 23, 2009
It's been a while
It's been a full month since my last blog post...I've been busy!
I started November with a 2 day trip down to NYC. Just so happened that was the week the Yanks won the World Series, and the parade went right in front of our office. I was meeting up with people in midtown for lunch, and had quite an adventure trying to get there, as the crowds for the parade were insane. We also went to this cool german beer garden on the friday night.
Last week we went to see "Where the Wild Things Are". Definitely cool costumes and beautiful scenery, but not the best plot / movie. Sounds like the "New Moon" was a huge hit this weekend, and apparently 80% female attendance.
Volunteered with Second Harvest again this year at the Food and Wine expo at the convention centre. Like last year we were gathering people's glasses as they were leaving (Second Harvest gets $1 / glass, and the organizers don't need to buy all new glasses again next year). I ended up working 11:30am - 11pm, although Laura came down around 6 and we toured around the booths for a an hour or two trying some of the food and wine. Yonny: Apparently Magic Oven on Queen St does all you can eat pizza on Wednesdays for $13/person! There's 5 kinds of pizza to choose from, so probably not the super fancy ones, but still!
Went out for a bike ride yesterday - hard to believe it's so nice out still and is almost December! What's the weather been like in Ottawa? Here it's still +8 or higher most days, and yesterday was gorgeous! I'm always surprised by how much crappy, dense, run down housing there is in Toronto (and the fact that it probably still costs $300k+ for said crappy run down townhouses) but what really blows me away are the number of massive, gorgeous mansions effectively "across the street" from the crappy neighbourhoods. I discovered this 'private enclave' right near where I live!. It's about 40 or so big, wooded lots, nice old cottagey houses, and they even have a big pond and private tennis court. Ali - if you're looking for something in the 1-2 million dollar range, I'm sure you could find something smaller in here that you'd really like : )
It's the work Christmas party this coming weekend...but Ryan and Trevor are both over in Dubai, and won't be back for the party, so it's not going to be as much fun as usual. Ah well, still good food and good fun!
And before you know it, it's going to be Christmas! Need to sort out plans for Ottawa!
I started November with a 2 day trip down to NYC. Just so happened that was the week the Yanks won the World Series, and the parade went right in front of our office. I was meeting up with people in midtown for lunch, and had quite an adventure trying to get there, as the crowds for the parade were insane. We also went to this cool german beer garden on the friday night.
Last week we went to see "Where the Wild Things Are". Definitely cool costumes and beautiful scenery, but not the best plot / movie. Sounds like the "New Moon" was a huge hit this weekend, and apparently 80% female attendance.
Volunteered with Second Harvest again this year at the Food and Wine expo at the convention centre. Like last year we were gathering people's glasses as they were leaving (Second Harvest gets $1 / glass, and the organizers don't need to buy all new glasses again next year). I ended up working 11:30am - 11pm, although Laura came down around 6 and we toured around the booths for a an hour or two trying some of the food and wine. Yonny: Apparently Magic Oven on Queen St does all you can eat pizza on Wednesdays for $13/person! There's 5 kinds of pizza to choose from, so probably not the super fancy ones, but still!
Went out for a bike ride yesterday - hard to believe it's so nice out still and is almost December! What's the weather been like in Ottawa? Here it's still +8 or higher most days, and yesterday was gorgeous! I'm always surprised by how much crappy, dense, run down housing there is in Toronto (and the fact that it probably still costs $300k+ for said crappy run down townhouses) but what really blows me away are the number of massive, gorgeous mansions effectively "across the street" from the crappy neighbourhoods. I discovered this 'private enclave' right near where I live!. It's about 40 or so big, wooded lots, nice old cottagey houses, and they even have a big pond and private tennis court. Ali - if you're looking for something in the 1-2 million dollar range, I'm sure you could find something smaller in here that you'd really like : )
It's the work Christmas party this coming weekend...but Ryan and Trevor are both over in Dubai, and won't be back for the party, so it's not going to be as much fun as usual. Ah well, still good food and good fun!
And before you know it, it's going to be Christmas! Need to sort out plans for Ottawa!
