After a long hiatus of nearly a week, during which i have been slowly but surely recovering from a nasty bout of strep throat, thanks to the able assistance of a nice dose of antibiotics, here i am at last. My creative juices were thrown out the window with the bathwater apparently and only recently have seeped back into the house, to be slowly reabsorbed by my personage. So how to summarize last weekend, which was epic in proportions??
My good friends Laura and Carina and I have been attempting for some time now to get away for a night to just be with the girls and spend some good quality time together, dear Alvar had graciously consented to our leaving the kiddos in his very capable hands for a night whilst we painted the town green, orange and blue (red seems so scandalous and we are definitely not that kinda gals!). So finally we were able to find a great deal for a huge hotel room in Niagara Falls, breakfast included, a $40 voucher for dinner at the Keg and a free movie thrown in for good measure. This seemed like a great deal so we booked her all up and packed our bags... hoping for poor Carina's sake that she didn't get sick hanging around with two recovering sickies! (i believe she came through unscathed!)
And so Friday afternoon rolled around and we were all set to go complete with our essentials checklist:
- pajamas
- chocolates
- Settlers of Catan
- Boggle and various other word games (yeah!)
- toothbrush
- cameras with lotsa batteries and memory for all those crazy shots!
And so here's a few shots that sum up Friday for you - it was a lot of fun...
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| Aaaah yes, the world famous Niagara Falls - our side of the falls is SO much more magnificent... nothing like being proud of Canada's natural wonders! |
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| And even a little rainbow to boot! |
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Once we had our fill of looking at the falls for a while, we decided to rearrange the room since it wasn't quite up to our highly exacting standards of feng shui... or really we just wanted to take advantage of our room with a view to play our games by the windows!
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| Group shot... who knows what mischief these three can get up to? |
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| Carina always did have a thing for rearranging the furniture... |
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| Apparently, all that furniture moving was a little exhausting... don't worry, i was just faking! |
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With the room arrangements complete, we decided to head out for a little exploratory walk, check out the lay of the land, etc. We did some Indy car racing, goofed off a bit and froze our butts off walking around before finally wising up and taking the shuttle around town to see the falls and the lights... no need to walk when you can ride!
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| Laura was pretty fast... |
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| Carina might have beat her.... |
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| Laura explaining to Carina "yes, that is a light post" |
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| Apparently, when i'm drugged up on Advil, my adventurous side comes out, or possibly my gullible side, i believe i was incited to pretend to be flagrantly disobeying signs... |
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| The paparazzi were apparently in town... i caught them on film on the shuttle bus! |
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| I like this shot... we had a lot of fun Friday night... being a bunch of big kids! |
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| A pretty cool shot from the shuttle bus window... the falls looked really neat! |
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After warming our frozen limbs up in our room, we set to playing some games of Settlers... well, maybe Laura and I attempted to play but were soundly beaten again and again by the masterful planning of Carina! She is a genius at this game, i tell you.... though i do wonder at times, what would happen if someone managed to get those orange pieces away from her and see if she still plays as well??!!! Maybe that's the secret!
And then it was time for dinner... we had a $40 voucher for the Keg... we checked out the menu and were pretty much convinced that we were just going to share some appetizers and have water like the good little Dutch girls that we were and that would be good enough... how else could you feed three adults at a restaurant that starts at a minimum $25/plate... the math just wouldn't add up, even to a flunky like me! But we managed to pull off a feat of epic proporations - we each had a full plate of food, it tasted super delicious and we were in fact stuffed to the gills and our bill, when presented came to $38.97... how's that for efficiency and thrift? Love it!
To be continued...............
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