So I was in Toronto on the weekend for the Canada East Gala. It was a fucking blast.
If you don't want to read about it and my weekend you can just skip to the pictures.
My whole weekend as I remember it:
Drove up Friday morning a couple hours after work and got there about 1. Took me like 25minutes to drive up bloody Bloor; 2.5hours to drive 352km, 25 minutes to drive 2km, something isn't right there haha. Anyway, got to the hotel and slept for a little bit while waiting for Shaine and Cass17 to get there.
Once they got there we got settled and unpacked and went down to Sneaky Dee's (I believe that was the name) and met up with Rayde and her boyfriend, AandP and a whole whack of other people. It was good times; good conversations, good laughs, good food. Rayde's boyfriend is one of the awesomest people ever to hangout with; the cab ride him and I took together was hysterical in itself. We had a great waiter while we were there too, he was always there when someone needed a drink or food or whatever. He was better then the waiter at the place we went to across the street; that waiter insisted, on more then one occasion, to tell me why I shouldn't drink pop...I wasn't even looking at him when he started the conversation again...and he started it originally because I asked him if they had Coke or Pepsi. After that we all went to a bar to get deep fried Mars bars. All in all it was a fun night. We went back to the hotel where Cass17 froze all night and Shaine and I couldn't stay cold enough haha.
I woke up early though because I couldn't sleep so I went on a walking adventure. I walked past a mission where a bunch of, I assume schizophrenics, were yelling at me as I walked by, then proceeded to talk to themselves once I was 10 feet past. Then I saw a porno theatre/strip club/I think brothel with really creepy people outside it (this is at like 8:30am). And on my way back I saw this squirrel who was missing patches of fur and no other squirrels were going near it...then it started to chase me as I walked but when I finally turned to kick it it stopped. (For the record: I was only going to kick it because I thought it was going to bite me and I thought it had something). Shortly after I got back tot he hotel we met up with Cass17's friend for breakfast and I napped for a little bit.
Then we went downtown to meet up with Atlea. We went to this coffee shop where the dude running persisted with a stupid Quebec joke that the first time was smile-worthy-funny and by then end was just really annoying...thank you for making people from Ontario look like idiots. We did a bunch of walking after that, found a cool hand-made jewelry store that had an awesome dog inside. After that we walked back to the hotel; turns out it takes 2 hours to walk from Queen StW to Bloor W...and its up hill AND down hill lol. On the way though we did find this neat little shop where I picked up a couple magnets for Lee:
and when we stopped for a sausage I had a pigeon keep eating from my hand:
I named him Bob.
Shortly afterward we went down to Nymph's for some pre-Gala snacks and drinks...if you ever get the chance to eat her stuffed mushrooms I highly recommend it, SO GOOD...O, and we watched the hockey game
. Vancouver won, started the night on a good note 
.
Then Gala! It was so much fun. I had about 6 beer in the first half hour lol. During that time my shirt was on, then some people *cough* Shaine and Atlea *cough* took it off. I think I look like a Chip 'n' Dale. What do you think?
ok, I look like a Chip 'n' Dale who's been drinking beer for 10 years lol.
Still, it was an awesome night. lots of dancing and talking, met up with some people I don't get to see very often, met some people I've talked with on here and I met come people I've never met at all. It was good times all round. And my ass was spanked many many times (I'm primarily looking at you Anarkiti
), but I know there was a dozen others; woke up a sore ass though lol...I know, it's big and round and surprising quite firm so I don't blame anyone. My only problem: they didn't have that much Moosehead in stock lol...but if that's my only complaint you know I'm reaching .
I want to thank AandP and radiofrank for organizing it; it was a lot of fun.
If you don't want to read about it and my weekend you can just skip to the pictures.
My whole weekend as I remember it:
Drove up Friday morning a couple hours after work and got there about 1. Took me like 25minutes to drive up bloody Bloor; 2.5hours to drive 352km, 25 minutes to drive 2km, something isn't right there haha. Anyway, got to the hotel and slept for a little bit while waiting for Shaine and Cass17 to get there.
Once they got there we got settled and unpacked and went down to Sneaky Dee's (I believe that was the name) and met up with Rayde and her boyfriend, AandP and a whole whack of other people. It was good times; good conversations, good laughs, good food. Rayde's boyfriend is one of the awesomest people ever to hangout with; the cab ride him and I took together was hysterical in itself. We had a great waiter while we were there too, he was always there when someone needed a drink or food or whatever. He was better then the waiter at the place we went to across the street; that waiter insisted, on more then one occasion, to tell me why I shouldn't drink pop...I wasn't even looking at him when he started the conversation again...and he started it originally because I asked him if they had Coke or Pepsi. After that we all went to a bar to get deep fried Mars bars. All in all it was a fun night. We went back to the hotel where Cass17 froze all night and Shaine and I couldn't stay cold enough haha.
I woke up early though because I couldn't sleep so I went on a walking adventure. I walked past a mission where a bunch of, I assume schizophrenics, were yelling at me as I walked by, then proceeded to talk to themselves once I was 10 feet past. Then I saw a porno theatre/strip club/I think brothel with really creepy people outside it (this is at like 8:30am). And on my way back I saw this squirrel who was missing patches of fur and no other squirrels were going near it...then it started to chase me as I walked but when I finally turned to kick it it stopped. (For the record: I was only going to kick it because I thought it was going to bite me and I thought it had something). Shortly after I got back tot he hotel we met up with Cass17's friend for breakfast and I napped for a little bit.
Then we went downtown to meet up with Atlea. We went to this coffee shop where the dude running persisted with a stupid Quebec joke that the first time was smile-worthy-funny and by then end was just really annoying...thank you for making people from Ontario look like idiots. We did a bunch of walking after that, found a cool hand-made jewelry store that had an awesome dog inside. After that we walked back to the hotel; turns out it takes 2 hours to walk from Queen StW to Bloor W...and its up hill AND down hill lol. On the way though we did find this neat little shop where I picked up a couple magnets for Lee:
and when we stopped for a sausage I had a pigeon keep eating from my hand:
I named him Bob.Shortly afterward we went down to Nymph's for some pre-Gala snacks and drinks...if you ever get the chance to eat her stuffed mushrooms I highly recommend it, SO GOOD...O, and we watched the hockey game
. Vancouver won, started the night on a good note . Then Gala! It was so much fun. I had about 6 beer in the first half hour lol. During that time my shirt was on, then some people *cough* Shaine and Atlea *cough* took it off. I think I look like a Chip 'n' Dale. What do you think?
ok, I look like a Chip 'n' Dale who's been drinking beer for 10 years lol. Still, it was an awesome night. lots of dancing and talking, met up with some people I don't get to see very often, met some people I've talked with on here and I met come people I've never met at all. It was good times all round. And my ass was spanked many many times (I'm primarily looking at you Anarkiti
), but I know there was a dozen others; woke up a sore ass though lol...I know, it's big and round and surprising quite firm so I don't blame anyone. My only problem: they didn't have that much Moosehead in stock lol...but if that's my only complaint you know I'm reaching . I want to thank AandP and radiofrank for organizing it; it was a lot of fun.
