A Weekend Out With The Girls

She shoots she scores...or at least gets an assist!  

On Friday night I was treated to a delicious meal by Chef Taylor while we watched the new Pirates of the Carribean movie.  I thought it was a great bit of swashbuckling fun arr, and who can resist a movie with Johnny Depp in it?!

After the movie - and a brief interlude talking to Donna, Phil, Charlia and the gang - I headed out to UBC for the first hockey game of the season.  I love playing hockey!  One of these days I am going to do a skills and drills session and get better, but in the interim I can still skate (and stop gracefully) even if I do miss the puck.

Hockey Girls!

Grr!  Tara Williams - Hockey Player

The Cross Check Chicks - Check them out!

Saturday Adventures
On Saturday I bought my brand new ski stuff which I hope to try out very soon! Then I had a 4 hour nap - I guess I was tired ;-)  After my nap I joined Kristina, Karen, and Patti for a night out.  We went to the opening night of La Cage Aux Folles at the Vancouver Playhouse.  It was a great performance!  I would say that it is the best play I have seen there yet!  The two leads David Marr who played Georges and Greg Armstrong-Morris who played Albin had incredible chemistry and the music has kept me singing the songs every morning since!  If you are looking for I would definitely recommend seeing it!

Les Cagelles and Zaza

After the performance we headed to Chambar for some drinks and snacks.  Kristina and I have both wanted to go there for a really long time but never had an opportunity to, so this was a wonderful excuse!  We started with some drinks - or at least Kristina and Patti did ;-) The drinks looked amazing!

We Les Tapas
Pork Shoulder and Trotter croquettes, fresh herb mimosa.  Baby purple artichokes, white anchovies & almond rillette.  Buffalo mozzarella, sun dried tomatoes & Olive tapenade.

It was delicious!

We then broke down and ordered desert.  Craftily named Le Camping.  This delectable creation was Graham cracker ice cream, salted chocolate cremeux and toasted meringue.  Take a look

Karen attempts to attack La Camping

We all agreed that next time we will all need to order our own La Camping...either that or go there and order one for ourselves and one for our friends who conveniently don't show up ;-)

Thanks for a great weekend girls!

Halloween Part Deux

Wow what a weekend!  From a brilliant Made in China concert to a very soggy race to Bert and Ernie stealing the show - no wonder I am ready for the next weekend already!

Friday - Sylvia's Birthday Jam Party

Rosie the Riveter visited Sylvia's Birthday Jam Party where Made in China were playing.  The vocal stylings of Mario Rea were incredible!  Who knew that with that rockstar hair came a rockstar voice?!  Kris where have you been hiding this talent?!  Made in China were excellent!  This modern Partridge family band are definitely ones to watch!  The mad bass moves of Karen Parusel and the brass rockings of Kristina Parusel were out of this world!  (Pher, Sandy and Guy were pretty good too ;-)).

Lead Trumpet Player - Kristina Parusel - You Go Girl!

There were some pretty cool costumes out that evening including Ed in a feather mask

Ed in a feather mask

Hansee and John as the farmer's daughter and...Hitler??

The Farmer's Daughter and...Hitler??

I wish I got a picture of Harmony's outfit - she was a puck bunny in a Calgary jersey...

Karen and Franklin the Rat

The rat still freaks me out in this picture

A couple of crazy pirates...arr

Saturday - Moving Day
I helped a couple of friends move on Saturday to a really great location...only got a couple of bruises but it was worth it.  We are now rid of the ghosts just in time for Halloween!

Sunday - Race Day!
Thanks to Sara I committed to running the James Cunningham Seawall race.  Sara and Paul came fully decked out in costume!  What good sports (I ditched the costume for waterproof running gear and it seems so did Dawn).  Jackie and Gail also ran the race.  My official time was 1:02:10.67 a personal best for a 9.5k race.  My last 10km race was 1:04:40 so I would have been almost  minute faster!

Springs!

Awe!  Running Millers in Costume

Monday - Halloween Day
I went decked out in costume to work.  Even though I barely left my desk I still got a few comments.  What do you think of my costume?

Tara as Rosie the Riveter

So believe it or not many people do not know who Rosie the Riveter is or who she stands for, including my boss, so I had to do some education with the costume but it was worth it.  I decided to dress as Rosie the Riveter in honour of my grandmother who was a riveter during the 2nd World War.

I took Bert and Ernie over to my friends and people actually stood outside their apartment and took pictures of them!

I love halloween and I can't wait until next year.  The only thing that was missing was the usual pyromaniac semantics of the Thomson clan :-)