Couple of pretty packed days

Whew! It has been a pretty packed fun couple of days.

Yesterday was my day off and I had lunch with Laura at Granville Island where she had her lunch attacked by a seagull! I gave myself a bruise because it made me jumped! It was definitely a funny experience. :)

After the seagull attack, I went off to do a few errands and grocery shopping for ingredients for my second recipe for the Whip-It-Up challenge and I have decided to make a Tuxedo cake as I have been craving a good cake for a while. This will definitely qualify as "guilty pleasures"! I didn't really look too closely at the recipe yet, just the ingredients list, so I don't know how difficult it will be but we will fin out!

Once I got home and put everything away, I realized that I was late to pick up Karen to go to a Miss Sixty VIP event with cocktails and special sales! Darn! So I hurried and we got to the store in time for some white wine sangria and a look at some of the clothes. There were some interesting items but nothing that caught my eye or fit my budget! Karen did find some stuff she wanted to try on so she decided to stay while I had to leave to pick up Nathalie to go to Anton's for our Breast Cancer Organizing Committee windup dinner.

For those of you who have not been to Anton's, be forewarned, the portions are insanely huge! The menu is also quite extensive; it took us a long time to finally decide on our choices.

I chose the chicken, mushrooms and pine nuts risotto and I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. I've heard that Anton's was known for its huge portions, not for the high quality of the pasta but this was a very good risotto and we all know how hard it is to make good risotto.

Nathalie had the house special stuff pasta, Carla had the Bombay penne and Tricia had the seafood linguine. All were delicious so I think we will definitely go back again. There are many other dishes we would like to try!

After finishing maybe 1/5 of our meal, we waved the white flag and called it quits. We had the rest of our meals packed up and now we had enough leftover pasta to last us for a couple of days at least!

From there, it was onto the Lamplighter Pub for Erik's birthday drinks. I have never been to Lamplighter before so it was interesting to check out a new place. They had a live band, a pretty nice interior and it was not what I had expected. Another pleasant surprise!

Once I found Erik and his friends, I asked him what he was drinking so that I can buy him a birthday drink. Then I decided that a shot was a better idea so I went off to get two tequila shots. Sorry Erik, but I started a trend as a muff diver shot showed up shortly after and then 3 of his friends bought him a vodka shot and two jaeger shots all in a row! :D It was a fun night chatting and listening to the band and playing pool. I called it a night around midnight as I have to work in the morning.

Today, work was BUSY. It was so busy at lunchtime that we had people waiting for tables and everyone was running around. I worked straight through till 5pm and couldn't wait to get some food as I hadn't eaten all day.

Theresa picked me up and we went back to my place for some pizza and "So you think you can dance" not to mention catching up on the last couple of weeks. We also went to say hi to my neighbour, Tara, who has a pug, George, whom Theresa was hoping to meet as she loves pugs.

All in all, it's been a fun-filled couple of days and it looks like this weekend is going to be a sports-filled weekend as I'm now going up to Whistler for the grass volleyball tournament on Saturday and then to Spanish Banks for a fun beach volleyball tourney and to Urban Beach to play my first league game in about 2 years. I am looking forward to getting back into sports again and it should be a fun weekend. :)