Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
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This weeks theme is Pink
This is the Tiffany Rose. Aren’t it’s delicate petals beautiful?
I’ve only got one of these rose plants and I find it rather stingy with it’s beautiful flowers, but when it does produce some blooms they are absolutely outstanding!
Yum!
We ordered Greek food from our favorite Greek restaurant last night and I suppose they have generous but not overly large servings.
It doesn’t matter to me how large a serving is these days anyway as I can’t eat a lot of food at one time. This works out good though as I usually end up eating only half of what I ordered which of course means that I can have the yummy food again the next day!
And that’s what I did this evening. Finished up last nights Greek dinner.
I ate my meal a while ago, but I held off on the salad until a few minutes ago. Now I have the pleasant salty taste of feta, olives and what I believe was Italian dressing.
Wordless Wednesday
Can you imagine!
I’ve never had anything quite like this happen to me before – and I’m glad of it!, but I have had a few interesting encounters with animals in zoos and animal sanctuaries.
I remember once when I was a little kid my family took a road trip to the States. I’m not sure where we were exactly, but we went to a zoo or something that allowed people to walk in the very large enclosure that held deer, llamas and I’m certain there was a buffalo in there too.
Well you know at places like that there are food stations that people can buy pellets or in my case a cracker type of food to feed the animals. When I got my food to give to the animals they totally mobbed me! I was maybe 3.5 feet tall at the time and I was surrounded by I’m sure 20 deer. I’m pretty sure I was terrified and screaming. It certainly is a vivid memory!
It was my sister in laws birthday on the 18th. She turned 40.
Not this weekend, but the next a mutual friend of ours is going to have a surprise birthday party for my sister in law. She even went so far as to send out invitation – even sent one to Chris’ brother in Chicago and he’s planning on coming to the party! Since he doesn’t fly I think it’s quite a distance to drive just for a birthday party, but he’s like that and that’s another story in itself.
Not only is our friend having a surprise birthday party for Chris’ sister, but this weekend she’s taking my sister in law and her husband on a weekend Bahamas cruise! That’s also a surprise.
I can’t believe she bought four tickets (her husband is going too of course) for a cruise!
I imagine it was a special package deal. I was curious as to how much it might cost to fly to say Miami and then go on a weekend cruise – for four so I visited the travel club that my husband and I joined when we got our package deal to Las Vegas and looked at what kind of prices they had for their cruises. The lowest price that I could find for airfare and four people on one of the big cruise lines in the cheapest cabins offered was about $3500 in total!
Wow. I sure hope our friend got an even lower price than that. Still it must have cost something close to that.
Now why can’t our friends give Chris and I special surprise parties or buy us trips too?
Our friend has surprise parties or big dinner parties for Chris’ sister or her husband every year and of course we’re always invited. My only problem with the whole deal is that whenever it’s my brother in laws special party – it’s alway either on my birthday or the same week as my birthday .. uh what about me? LOL Or … Chris’ sister’s birthday is only four days before Chris and I’s wedding anniversary but other than an invite to the party our special day is forgot.
We’re all very close friends too. I just think it’s a little strange.
My husband and I are trying to get out more. You know, trying to do things we both enjoy. We share a love of music so we thought that over the next few months we’d make an effort to get out and see some of our favorite bands in concert.
One of the bands that we both would have liked to see was Van Halen. Unfortunately they already played here in Toronto! There’s two upcoming concerts that we could get Van Halen tickets for, but the show in Boston is on a Tuesday and well that’s maybe too far to go, and the other is in Montreal – also not that close.
The Montreal concert is on Saturday November 10th. If only it was a few days later! We’ll be in Las Vegas at that time.
So I guess we won’t be seeing Van Halen. I think I’ll have to get my act together and do a little research as to what future concerts we might want to see and try to get tickets in advance.
At least living in a big city like Toronto we have lots of opportunities to see bands when they come to town on tour since almost every big band comes through here.