One Down, One to Go....

This has to be the slowest day at work that I have had in a very long time…I know there are things to do, but I just cannot do it! Also, I know tomorrow will likely be busy one – so I will just save everything for tomorrow! Then I am outta here for 5 days!!!

I suppose I should do the weekend update thing – Friday night my sister and I went to Vitos for supper. I had their new dish, Penne Zesto, which was fab, but the service really sucked. We should have eaten in the bar area, as we usually get better service, but I didn’t think of it at the time…I could only eat half of the Penne Zesto, so I took the rest to John, who was working a night shift.

Saturday was the “Not so Amazing Race – Saint John edition”. The idea was the brainstorm of a friend in honour of another friend, E. that has moved to Halifax…a little going away get together. The day was a lot of fun! Everyone met at O’Leary’s to get organized and get our first clue. I teamed up with Pika, which worried me a little because there would have been a possibility that we would strangle each other, but we turned out to be a great team! We both had the same idea about the day – no running as it was incredibly hot, and if we felt like it, we would disqualify ourselves and find a patio somewhere to get a cold one. But, we soon realized we were probably going to finish near the top, so we stuck to it.

The clues took us throughout the South End – from Brunswick Square Shopping Mall to the Three Sisters Lamps and back again. Each clue was a photograph of a feature at the location we had to find, and at some of the locations we had to complete a task – like a water balloon throwing contest, a word puzzle, etc. This part took about an hour – it seemed to fly by very fast!

Before the last leg of the race, we were team #3 out of 8. The last task had the teams sucking either a pitcher of beer or pop (our choice) thru straws at the same time – or one team member having a drink of tomato juice with three raw eggs. We opted for the pop – as we were both driving and the egg thing wasn’t something either of us would do. After that contest we ended up 4th, but at least we didn’t throw up like one of the girls on the team that came ahead of us….we survived with our dignity in tact!

We then had yummy cake from the Baking Stone for the guest of honour – some of us already have a trip planned to got to Halifax in August for a visit with E…should be a good time!

I have to say to the organizers (I think some of you read this) – What an excellent job! We should make it a yearly event….

So, after the race, Pika and I both headed back to the valley – both rather tired. Later that evening, my sister & I went over to C and A’s place, and Pika joined us there. We were going to have a fire, but the Thunder/Lightning/Rain put the kibosh on that. All was well because we had a really good time catching up and having a laugh…

Sunday, John got home from work in the morning and we had a very low key day. The heat prevented much for physical activity, so we stayed in the cool family room for most of the day, just heading out once to pick up a few groceries and a little drive by the yacht club to look at the boats. We BBQ’s for supper (just like any other night in the summer!) and then had P. stopped by later in the evening, and then M&J after that for a little visit.