Here's a pic of me after a few drinks at the Shakedown Cruise! (Nice tongue Scotty!)
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Genetic Experiment!
Here's a pic of me after a few drinks at the Shakedown Cruise! (Nice tongue Scotty!)
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Sad.
The Red Wings have been eliminated from the 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Very Sad. They had a great run this year: finishing 2nd in the regular season and in the top 4 in the playoffs. Congrats to the Red Wings on an excellent year. See you next October!!! I can't wait!
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Monday, May 07, 2007
Cruising the St. Lawrence
Erin and I have been officially 'shaked down'! We joined the friends, family and crew of the Canadian Empress of the St. Lawrence Cruise Lines on their 'shake down' cruise in preparation for their busy season on the river. It was soooo fun!
The theme this year was 'Lil Abner and Dogpatch. Now I'm old, but not that old. So I had no clue what this Dogpatch cartoon was. After some research (i.e. reading Wikipedia), I learned that it's kind of a hillbilly world. So... dressing up was EASY! Ken, Julie, Erin and I hit Value Village Friday night for a pee-your pants good time getting costumes. I scored some women's overalls, a straw hat and some huge pimpin' sun glasses that are so big they fit over my regular glasses hahaha! With this we were all set to board the boat Saturday afternoon for our 24 hours of fun!
We installed ourselves into our very cute suite on the boat - Rm #16. (Pictures will be coming shortly.) And then made our way to the opening ceremonies. After some time up on the deck socializing, the Grand Salon was open for dinner. We started off with a very yummy Prime Rib dinner. Afterwards the fun began. Everyone retired to their rooms to gear up their costumes for the Sadie Hawkins dance. (It's ok if you don't know what that means... because I had to look it up too.) Basically, it's a dance where the girls ask the boys to dance. Cute! Keeping with the theme, both Julie and Erin presented Ken and I some lovely plastic flowers that were taped onto our wrists with electrical tape. How sweet and how appropriate! HAHA! We danced the night away to country folks song with the live band: The Ozark Boys. Half way through the night a surprise Red Wings cake came my way courtsey of Tracy and Seb! HOW AWESOME! The entire ship sang happy birthday to me HAHA. So after filling our face with cake and dancing some more, we closed the bar on the ship at 1:30am. (Erin's a good sport for staying up so late without any alcohol to influence her decision HAHA)
The next day it was time for a delicious omelette for breakfast. We then disembarked in Rockport and bussed to the St. Lawrence National Park where we had a guided tour of a gunboat wreck that dated back to 1817. This gunboat was the last military boat made in the Kingston Dockyards. It was pretty impressive to see such a unique artifact. Afterwards, back to the ship. The sun was beaming and we took advantage of the beautiful weather to spend some time up top on the deck. Tony and I challenged Scott and Marwan to a game of shuffleboard and despite the fact that it was neck and next half way through the game, Tony and I won by a score of 132 to 67. Lucky! Unfortunately, we hadn't bet anything on the game.... so there were no spoils to the winner HAHA!
Lunch was next.... very yummy lentil soup, baked chicken thighs, and baby red potatoes.... and ice cream and thickened syrup for desert. YUM! We had some more time sunning up on the deck while the ship made it's way to our home port. Once we arrived it was time fro the closing ceremonies, which included a piano assisted sing-a-long about the life and times of Jubilation T. Cornpone (again... you've got to look it up!), we disembarked and said fairwell to our friends at the docks.
It was really fun! Cross your fingers that Erin and I get invited back next year. It was definitely a fun adventure!
The theme this year was 'Lil Abner and Dogpatch. Now I'm old, but not that old. So I had no clue what this Dogpatch cartoon was. After some research (i.e. reading Wikipedia), I learned that it's kind of a hillbilly world. So... dressing up was EASY! Ken, Julie, Erin and I hit Value Village Friday night for a pee-your pants good time getting costumes. I scored some women's overalls, a straw hat and some huge pimpin' sun glasses that are so big they fit over my regular glasses hahaha! With this we were all set to board the boat Saturday afternoon for our 24 hours of fun!
We installed ourselves into our very cute suite on the boat - Rm #16. (Pictures will be coming shortly.) And then made our way to the opening ceremonies. After some time up on the deck socializing, the Grand Salon was open for dinner. We started off with a very yummy Prime Rib dinner. Afterwards the fun began. Everyone retired to their rooms to gear up their costumes for the Sadie Hawkins dance. (It's ok if you don't know what that means... because I had to look it up too.) Basically, it's a dance where the girls ask the boys to dance. Cute! Keeping with the theme, both Julie and Erin presented Ken and I some lovely plastic flowers that were taped onto our wrists with electrical tape. How sweet and how appropriate! HAHA! We danced the night away to country folks song with the live band: The Ozark Boys. Half way through the night a surprise Red Wings cake came my way courtsey of Tracy and Seb! HOW AWESOME! The entire ship sang happy birthday to me HAHA. So after filling our face with cake and dancing some more, we closed the bar on the ship at 1:30am. (Erin's a good sport for staying up so late without any alcohol to influence her decision HAHA)
The next day it was time for a delicious omelette for breakfast. We then disembarked in Rockport and bussed to the St. Lawrence National Park where we had a guided tour of a gunboat wreck that dated back to 1817. This gunboat was the last military boat made in the Kingston Dockyards. It was pretty impressive to see such a unique artifact. Afterwards, back to the ship. The sun was beaming and we took advantage of the beautiful weather to spend some time up top on the deck. Tony and I challenged Scott and Marwan to a game of shuffleboard and despite the fact that it was neck and next half way through the game, Tony and I won by a score of 132 to 67. Lucky! Unfortunately, we hadn't bet anything on the game.... so there were no spoils to the winner HAHA!
Lunch was next.... very yummy lentil soup, baked chicken thighs, and baby red potatoes.... and ice cream and thickened syrup for desert. YUM! We had some more time sunning up on the deck while the ship made it's way to our home port. Once we arrived it was time fro the closing ceremonies, which included a piano assisted sing-a-long about the life and times of Jubilation T. Cornpone (again... you've got to look it up!), we disembarked and said fairwell to our friends at the docks.
It was really fun! Cross your fingers that Erin and I get invited back next year. It was definitely a fun adventure!
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