Thanks again to McDonalds Ice Coffee that kept me up all night, I had an unrestful 2 hour sleep. Yesterday at 8am, we left to Michael Murakami's family home in Orangeville for the day. We planted trees in the morning and between the few of us, we planted 300 pretty quickly.
Excited about trees! Wooohh!
Look at my treelings!!!
Then we went to Michael's beautiful home and had lunch with his entire family. His dogs were so adorable other than the fact that one kept trying to lick my balls.
We hung out and then headed to Mono Cliffs to go fly fishing. It is a MASSIVE park, you can seriously walk for hours and hours. It was a little hike and then we fished at two different ponds while simultaneously getting attacked by mosquitos. Me especially, since apparently they all wanted my sweet, succulent juice.
At the second pond, Mike caught a fish but quickly threw it back in because he thought he'd catch more. I kept trying to go after this one little mother effer but it was being a little biatch. The fish were very smart and stubborn. It is the first time I went fishing, muchless fly fishing, and I liked it a whole lot other than the fact that I got one heck of a sunburn.
When we finished, we went the wrong way and walked what seemed like an endless route through this hell of a forest. Out of anger for being lost and getting attacked nonstop by mosquitos, I plucked a trillium (provincial flower of Ontario that is illegal to pick). We made it to the road but were all the way at the bottom of the cliff which is complete opposite of where we parked, so Mike climbed all the way up to get the car and drove back to us. He was a man, and he did the right thing. We had dinner at his parents' place and by the time we got home, it was around 10pm. What a day!
Yesterday, me and Ira went to get Becky's birthday present and I finally bought my running shoes.
We bought her the home and away Toronto Maple Leafs jersey since she is a crazy Leafs fan. Cute eh?!
Yes, they're green but that's not why I bought them. After considerable research, I decided just to dish out for the higher-end pair but I lucked out in the end because there was a sale + SPC discount.
Becky joined us after and we picked up Gerald from the airport. Then me and Ira went on our adventure to four different Rogers trying to return the darned cable box. It was worth the trip because we met this guy with a sexy Scottish accent (I can't wait to go to Europe).
My bananas were beyond ripe so I had to make use of them: I made banana brownies and banana muffins from scratch.
We briefly went to 7-11 to get free slushies with our expired coupon. When we came back, James joined us for the baked goods and then we had a mini-jam session in Ira's room.
Pure poses.
The true musician!
Today is Becky's 22nd birthday.
This is the card I got her featuring her lover from her fave show, Prison Break. We went paintballing at this small place in Kitchener called Paintball Arena. By the end of it, we were all absolutely disgusting but it was fun, although I much prefer laser tag!
Other highlights:
Late late night girl talk with Ira and Lilian. The trio is best
Tennis with Michael, Jacey and Ira
McDees with Jackie and Ira. We got free ice coffee that kept us awake til 7AM
Becky made me special dinner: chicken with spaghetti squash... mmm, I love it
The church I go to has a campus in Jane & Finch at my old elementary school. Me and Priscilla decided to take a morning trip just to check it out. This is a view of my old elementary school from my favourite park.
My favourite park where I used to spend the majority of my childhood. Everything is the same except they added this Spider-Man contraption thing and they removed the tire swing at the back.
Priscilla is standing in the very spot where my first bike got stolen. Oh, Jane & Finch...
36-47 Tobermory Dr. This is my old townhouse where I spent the first ten years of my life.
Rockclimbing:
Richard organized a rock climbing event and at night, we went to Oasis which is right on Bathurst. Chris, David and I on the 2nd beginner wall. The first time, the height was making me hyperventilate (with fear of Eugene dropping me).
Lilian is back, and EVERYONE KNEW except for me. Weeks in advance! That's because they all thought it would be funny to surprise me, and to relish in the delight of seeing my utterly shocked expression. And they ALL kept this secret from me. LILIAN KEPT A SECRET, while Ira was acting all suspicious, telling me she was having a birthday party in March when her birthday is in June. Everything makes sense now. LILIAN IS BACK PEOPLE AND IT'S TIME TO PARTY.
So there was a BBQ at Jackie's house, when all along I thought it was for St. Patty's day. No, it was a welcome back Lilian party. I am so happy! Yes, we played poker and Mike Murakami stole all our money again. After the party, we went to this lavish bubbletea place called Go for Tea in Richmond Hill and then dropped Lilian off at her Markham home so she can sleep off all of her jet lag.
Ira, take a sick day off from work! Lilian is coming back on Tuesday for St. Patty's Day = GREEN BEER and MASSIVE HANG OVER.
Check out the video I posted up of the party. Basically, me and Tania ran around Jenny Lai's mansion taking a video of people and it primarily consists of me acting like a dumbass and making a fool of myself haha. Enjoy!
Christmas Eve @ T.J.s House
Ottawa/Montreal Trip - Day 1
The trip there was pretty good considering the very foggy Silent Hill-esque travel conditions. We drove to Ottawa to meet up with the rest of Michael's friends, and explored Chateau Laurier (a fancy hotel apparently where the Queen stays when she is in town) where this Cuban janitor started taking pictures for us, giving us a tour and telling us ghost stories.
We had dinner and then headed to Montreal where we checked into our sweet hotel, The Hyatt. We played this board game - drinking game style and everyone (minus me) was basically tipsy to drunk and was acting funny until like 5 am in the morning.
Montreal Trip - Day 2
We woke up and walked past the Notre Dame Cathedral to Old Montreal where we visited Creperie Chez Suzette - the quaint place that we found last year. We briefly went to an Art Museum in front of our hotel and then walked around for a while. We had dinner at this French restaurant where I wasted 28 bucks on stupid 6 scallops and a morsel of dry pasta in the corner - disgusting. We went to W hotel where Matt & Julie were staying, drank and headed back to our hotel.
Montreal Trip - Day 3
Our last day! We had breakfast at Mike's and checked out. We spent the entire day "shopping" aka walking around all day until I couldn't walk no more around St. Catherine and St. Laurent's. We had a drink at this nice little bar, and ended the day at one of the best restaurants I've ever been to: Pintxo.
On our way home, I bought $50 worth of Montreal smoked meat at Schwartz (YUM!!!). Michael's GPS just decided to stop working, so we got really lost trying to find the highway, ended up going to opposite direction and that's when the winter storm started. We had to go to Ottawa to drop off Bob and even though the GPS told us to take the local roads, we stopped listening to it. And thank god because Mike realized the GPS was set on "walking mode" - DOH. Basically we left around 11pm, got caught up in the worst possible storm EVER (it was the scariest thing, I never want to drive under those conditions again), and by the time we got to Mississauga, it was 7:30AM on December 30th. Time to prepare for my New Year's Eve Eve party LOL.
New Year's Eve [Squared]
On 4 hours of sleep after a hectic tiresome week, I pulled off a party for 40+ people, and stayed up til 7:30AM single-handedly (with aid from Charis) cleaning it all up to perfection. It was super crowded, but I hope everyone had themselves a good time. More importantly, THANK YOU FOR DRESSING TO IMPRESSING =)
HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE!
New Year's Eve
I woke up at 3pm and me and Becky had a long lunch at Picklebarrel =) and I dropped her off. No one wanted to go to Nathan Phillips (first time in years since I haven't gone), so we celebrated at Richard's house. We had drinks, watched a movie, I ate a bagel, had a crappy countdown because it was kind of rushed, and then crashed soon after. It's good to know that I'm going to spend the rest of my year like this. Happy New Year