Jean Beliveau was in Kingston today to sign autograph. This living legend is on a mini-tour to promote the auctioning of his hockey memorabilia. If you're not sure he's a living legend, you only need to hear one statistic to be convinced: he has 10 Stanley Cup rings! Holy smokes! That's only one shy of the record holder which is Henri Richard: he won 11 Stanley Cups!
Jean Beliveau is the consummate professional even today. Gentlemanly, patient and caring; I estimate he signed more that 500 autographs today and he did every single one with a smile. I thanked him for coming to Kingston. I've got his autographed picture on my wall already. Here's a couple of pics that I took while I was in line.
Saturday, January 29, 2005
The most fun you can have jamming your thumb!
Friday night Andra and her newly arived husband Anwar hosted a rocking good time at Myles Acres. I was pleasantly surprised to see RWI in full force when we walked in. Very cool! This band is a lot of fun and I love it when they play the AC/DC! They played Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and the everpopular TNT! I love it. Erin got up and sang a beautiful duet with Jen from the band. They wowwed the crowd with "Mr. Jones" by the Counting Crows! Too cool. Rhonda, Andra and friends put on a beautiful spread of food too. If I would have known, I would have skipped dinner! HAHA!
One of the most fun activities of the night was the sledding! A brave rag-tag band of sledders was assembled at about 10:30pm to hit the slope. And HIT is the opperative word. The hill was a steep and rock ridden! My first trip down the hill, Julie clipped me from the side and I went flying out of Erin's Super Sledder 2000 (or whatever she so cutely calls it!) My second trip down was a 3-some of me, Tony and Erin and it was brutal. The black sled half collapsed going down the hill and we stopped hard, my kidneys complained and my thumb got jammed! Yeah... PARTY INJURY!
At the end of the night, we drove Jen home and tried to get Erin to sleep as soon as we could. She was leaving the next day at 5am to go on her Caribean vacation! She's gone now. I miss her already ;-(
One of the most fun activities of the night was the sledding! A brave rag-tag band of sledders was assembled at about 10:30pm to hit the slope. And HIT is the opperative word. The hill was a steep and rock ridden! My first trip down the hill, Julie clipped me from the side and I went flying out of Erin's Super Sledder 2000 (or whatever she so cutely calls it!) My second trip down was a 3-some of me, Tony and Erin and it was brutal. The black sled half collapsed going down the hill and we stopped hard, my kidneys complained and my thumb got jammed! Yeah... PARTY INJURY!
At the end of the night, we drove Jen home and tried to get Erin to sleep as soon as we could. She was leaving the next day at 5am to go on her Caribean vacation! She's gone now. I miss her already ;-(
Friday, January 28, 2005
Dismantling the Iron Horse
About three years ago Ted and I made a bet that we would never ever go to the Ironhorse Saloon. I don’t know why we made that bet maybe it was because I was so anti-country music at the time (*evil grin*). But we kept it, we never set foot in Kingston’s largest and only country bar in the last three years.
Now when I heard it was closing I had a little twinge in my heart. This establishment which I had actively avoided for years (I’ve been in K-town for 18 years and had never been there!), was going to be closing its doors. So, I asked Ted if he’d like to break the bet and go to the Ironhorse on its last night. He was into it baby!
So last night we trucked over there… just to spend a short time there since it’s a school night (haha!) Doors opened at 7:30… we were there by 8:30pm. The place was impressively large and impressively full for the early hour. Half-full! It was amazing. The diversity of people that were there was impressive: people of all ages, all body types, all dressed differently, and all with varying quality of teeth (HAHAHA!) Also, there was a surprisingly high number of people wearing cowboy hats. Who knew?!
Angela popped by for a few minutes to say “hi” and I saw a few SLC students that were in my class last semester.
By 9:15pm the band hit the stage: Ambush. And despite them playing country tunes, they rocked and the mountain of girls dancing on the stage with them didn’t hurt their sound either! By this point the bar is PACKED!!! Jam packed and there’s a line up to get in the door. So fans of the IronHorse were certainly seeing it out with style!!!
So, 10pm rolled around and Ted and I shook hands and packed it in as agreed. We’d been to the IronHorse and as we left we felt kind of sad. I felt sad because we weren’t sure where these people would go in the future to have fun. Fun was definitely being had inside that place … that’s for sure and some people will miss the IronHorse a great deal I bet. Where will they go now? Whiskey Willy’s? Yikes!!!
Now when I heard it was closing I had a little twinge in my heart. This establishment which I had actively avoided for years (I’ve been in K-town for 18 years and had never been there!), was going to be closing its doors. So, I asked Ted if he’d like to break the bet and go to the Ironhorse on its last night. He was into it baby!
So last night we trucked over there… just to spend a short time there since it’s a school night (haha!) Doors opened at 7:30… we were there by 8:30pm. The place was impressively large and impressively full for the early hour. Half-full! It was amazing. The diversity of people that were there was impressive: people of all ages, all body types, all dressed differently, and all with varying quality of teeth (HAHAHA!) Also, there was a surprisingly high number of people wearing cowboy hats. Who knew?!
Angela popped by for a few minutes to say “hi” and I saw a few SLC students that were in my class last semester.
By 9:15pm the band hit the stage: Ambush. And despite them playing country tunes, they rocked and the mountain of girls dancing on the stage with them didn’t hurt their sound either! By this point the bar is PACKED!!! Jam packed and there’s a line up to get in the door. So fans of the IronHorse were certainly seeing it out with style!!!
So, 10pm rolled around and Ted and I shook hands and packed it in as agreed. We’d been to the IronHorse and as we left we felt kind of sad. I felt sad because we weren’t sure where these people would go in the future to have fun. Fun was definitely being had inside that place … that’s for sure and some people will miss the IronHorse a great deal I bet. Where will they go now? Whiskey Willy’s? Yikes!!!
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
My iAdventure with my iPod
So, I've been riping music like there's no tomorrow. As of the time of this posting, I have riped about 400 CDs. Holy moly that's lots of CDs! But I'm not done yet! My rough count says I have approximately 200 more CDs to go. Jeez! My CD collection sure has grown over the years!
I bought a 40 Gb IPod Photo and I calculate that I will be able to fit about 833 CDs worth of music on it! So that means I will be able to hold my entire CD collection on this iPod! Sweeeeeeeeeeeet! And the iPod will only be about three quarters full. That's pretty cool! Room to grow!! This is fun!
I bought a 40 Gb IPod Photo and I calculate that I will be able to fit about 833 CDs worth of music on it! So that means I will be able to hold my entire CD collection on this iPod! Sweeeeeeeeeeeet! And the iPod will only be about three quarters full. That's pretty cool! Room to grow!! This is fun!
Friday, January 21, 2005
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Summer in January!
What do grass skirts, snow pants, horses, beer and chocolate beavers have in common? If you answered Janice's Birthday Party on Wolfe Island, then you are exactly right!!! The guys all showed up dressed up with Hawaiian Shirts (I had to buy mine…but Alex has a beauty already!) and the girls were treated to some grass skirts and lovely fuzzy sea-shell type bras upon their arrival! Man it was hilarious! The party's central activity involved three rounds on a horse drawn hayride. Now, it was freezing cold (had to be -25oC with the wind chill) and even with my long underwear I was friggin' cold! Needless to say I only survived one of the hay rides. Crazy people like Erin went out for two of them. I think the only person who made it out on all three was a guy related to Frosty the Snowman!
The food on the inside was super yummy! Loaded with snack too! I was especially enamoured with the cheezies in the beginning and the nacho flavoured Doritos in the end. Scary ... now I remember why I don't keep any chips and junk food in the house!!!
RWI played a marathon gig! Three sets! They were lots of fun and they played to the crowd as they usually do. Erin got up and sang as song as usual. The crowd loved it! Fernando by Abba! She had to read the words of the paper but it was still coolan accoustic guitar. One neat music thing that went on as well was in between the second and third set, a guy named John just pulled up to the microphone and sat down with he played three tunes: two from The Who and one from Pink Floyd. And he did an amazing job! I was really impressed!
Another fun part of the night was the impromptu Limbo line and then the strip show by Erin and her brother Chris! One of them took their shirt off! I'll let you imagine who it was!!!
What does the chocolate beaver in the opening line mean? Courtesy of Julie, the homemade chocolate cake for Janice was in the shape of a Beaver with a great caption: “World’s Best Beaver!” Too funny!
Pictures will are imminent!
The food on the inside was super yummy! Loaded with snack too! I was especially enamoured with the cheezies in the beginning and the nacho flavoured Doritos in the end. Scary ... now I remember why I don't keep any chips and junk food in the house!!!
RWI played a marathon gig! Three sets! They were lots of fun and they played to the crowd as they usually do. Erin got up and sang as song as usual. The crowd loved it! Fernando by Abba! She had to read the words of the paper but it was still coolan accoustic guitar. One neat music thing that went on as well was in between the second and third set, a guy named John just pulled up to the microphone and sat down with he played three tunes: two from The Who and one from Pink Floyd. And he did an amazing job! I was really impressed!
Another fun part of the night was the impromptu Limbo line and then the strip show by Erin and her brother Chris! One of them took their shirt off! I'll let you imagine who it was!!!
What does the chocolate beaver in the opening line mean? Courtesy of Julie, the homemade chocolate cake for Janice was in the shape of a Beaver with a great caption: “World’s Best Beaver!” Too funny!
Pictures will are imminent!
Friday, January 14, 2005
Closer!
Erin and I went to go see the movie Closer on Wednesday. Check out the Yahoo Movies site for the review.
It's a good flick because Erin and I ended up talking about the movie even the next day. Lots of swearing and adult content but it was integral to the movie. The general plot revolved around people wanting other people when their in relationships; constantly chasing love and never finding it for very long. Good movie... I give it an "A" for the thought provoking.
One of the quotes that I loved in this movie by Natalie Portman: "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off... but it’s more fun if you do." Beauty!
It's a good flick because Erin and I ended up talking about the movie even the next day. Lots of swearing and adult content but it was integral to the movie. The general plot revolved around people wanting other people when their in relationships; constantly chasing love and never finding it for very long. Good movie... I give it an "A" for the thought provoking.
One of the quotes that I loved in this movie by Natalie Portman: "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off... but it’s more fun if you do." Beauty!
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Sunday, January 09, 2005
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Hit me with your best shot!
I installed a hit counter on the page today. Yippee! I feel like a Rocket Scientist. NOT! :)
Monday, January 03, 2005
New Years Eve was .... SWEET!
Some of you know that Erin and I were headed for Isaiah Tubbs resort in Picton for New Years Eve. It was wonderful! Everything was perfect!
We arrived at about 3:30pm-ish after a great drive. Check in was flawless and we unloaded the stuff from our car directly into the side door of our beautiful suite. We had the Honeymoon Suite! It was two rooms. The first room had a King Size Bed, a TV, fridge, coffee maker, entertainment unit with DVD player (we didn't bring a movie but next time we will!), and a wonderful gas fireplace! The second room was a sitting room of sorts, with one entire wall of windows. It had a pull out couch and another large TV. It also had a big closet in it. The bathroom of course was HUGE! Including a big Jacuzzi tub! FUN!
We had to jump in the tub immediately before heading to dinner! Once we were all cleaned up and dressed up we headed over to the restaurant. And boy were we impressed by dinner! It was a buffet. But not just any ordinary buffet.... it had all kinds of seafood (yum yum), including all you can eat lobster!!! WOW! So we pigged out like crazy! Then by 10pm we rushed off to the big hotel hot tub and for a quick dip in the pool. It was totally fun.... we were the only ones there because despite the fact that we were there after 10.... the pool and hottub closes at 10pm!!! (*giggle*) If we would have been caught, I would have said that Erin made me do it HAHAHAHA We headed back to our room to prepare to celebrate the arrival of New Years. We celebrated in style with chocolate covered strawberries that I had made the night before. Yummalicious! And Erin had her brand new Red "New Years Eve" jammies with snow flakes on... too cute! It was a great New Years Eve... marking our 3 month anniversary as well! Yeah for us!
The next day we slept in, had another Jacuzzi bath and then hit the New Year Day breakfast buffet. Stupendous! Everything you could ask for in a breakfast.... including the obligatory Pecan Pie from last night! YUM! My poor waist line (*frown*)
At 3pm we had the Sleigh Ride with a pair of beautiful Belgian horses. Nice! See the pic above of me with King, one of the horses.
After the sleight ride we had some yummy hot chocolate in the bar and talked to some of our neighbours. We capped it off with a game of pool. (Jen would be proud as Erin won! Girl Power!!!) Afterwards, we went back to the room to uncork a bottle of vino in preparation for tonight's dinner reservation for 7:15pm. This dinner was made to order and boy was it yummy. I had an absolutely perfect Filet Mignon! And Erin had some local Ostrich which was to die for!!! YUMMY! Someone had told Erin before we went that the food there is extremely good..... well... now I believe them!!!
After dinner we headed to the room for some quality cuddling.... we had to go to bed early too because we'd need to get up early the next day. We were targeting a check out of 10:30am and a breakfast for 11am. I was barely hungry that morning after all the wonderful food we had on the last two days... but the breakfast was wonderful.... and so was the conversation. Erin and I chatted for more than an hour! She's so great to talk to!
The drive home was moderately eventful. Wicked freezing rain kept our speed down and we stopped in Deseronto where Erin bought some beautiful native art for our house. (*Notice the word *our* in that sentence... yup... she's moving in in April! YEAH for US!*)
So there ya have it. A perfect weekend that I spent with the perfect girl! Erin, thanks for suggesting such a fun way to spend time together! I love you babe!!!!
We arrived at about 3:30pm-ish after a great drive. Check in was flawless and we unloaded the stuff from our car directly into the side door of our beautiful suite. We had the Honeymoon Suite! It was two rooms. The first room had a King Size Bed, a TV, fridge, coffee maker, entertainment unit with DVD player (we didn't bring a movie but next time we will!), and a wonderful gas fireplace! The second room was a sitting room of sorts, with one entire wall of windows. It had a pull out couch and another large TV. It also had a big closet in it. The bathroom of course was HUGE! Including a big Jacuzzi tub! FUN!
We had to jump in the tub immediately before heading to dinner! Once we were all cleaned up and dressed up we headed over to the restaurant. And boy were we impressed by dinner! It was a buffet. But not just any ordinary buffet.... it had all kinds of seafood (yum yum), including all you can eat lobster!!! WOW! So we pigged out like crazy! Then by 10pm we rushed off to the big hotel hot tub and for a quick dip in the pool. It was totally fun.... we were the only ones there because despite the fact that we were there after 10.... the pool and hottub closes at 10pm!!! (*giggle*) If we would have been caught, I would have said that Erin made me do it HAHAHAHA We headed back to our room to prepare to celebrate the arrival of New Years. We celebrated in style with chocolate covered strawberries that I had made the night before. Yummalicious! And Erin had her brand new Red "New Years Eve" jammies with snow flakes on... too cute! It was a great New Years Eve... marking our 3 month anniversary as well! Yeah for us!
The next day we slept in, had another Jacuzzi bath and then hit the New Year Day breakfast buffet. Stupendous! Everything you could ask for in a breakfast.... including the obligatory Pecan Pie from last night! YUM! My poor waist line (*frown*)
At 3pm we had the Sleigh Ride with a pair of beautiful Belgian horses. Nice! See the pic above of me with King, one of the horses.
After the sleight ride we had some yummy hot chocolate in the bar and talked to some of our neighbours. We capped it off with a game of pool. (Jen would be proud as Erin won! Girl Power!!!) Afterwards, we went back to the room to uncork a bottle of vino in preparation for tonight's dinner reservation for 7:15pm. This dinner was made to order and boy was it yummy. I had an absolutely perfect Filet Mignon! And Erin had some local Ostrich which was to die for!!! YUMMY! Someone had told Erin before we went that the food there is extremely good..... well... now I believe them!!!
After dinner we headed to the room for some quality cuddling.... we had to go to bed early too because we'd need to get up early the next day. We were targeting a check out of 10:30am and a breakfast for 11am. I was barely hungry that morning after all the wonderful food we had on the last two days... but the breakfast was wonderful.... and so was the conversation. Erin and I chatted for more than an hour! She's so great to talk to!
The drive home was moderately eventful. Wicked freezing rain kept our speed down and we stopped in Deseronto where Erin bought some beautiful native art for our house. (*Notice the word *our* in that sentence... yup... she's moving in in April! YEAH for US!*)
So there ya have it. A perfect weekend that I spent with the perfect girl! Erin, thanks for suggesting such a fun way to spend time together! I love you babe!!!!
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