A Fantabulous Saturday!

As the title of this post suggests, my Saturday was fantabulous!!! With 文生 at school, I organized the annual watch-this-year's-HK-duck-show get-together, so we can scream and yell all we want to ourselves!

The day started with a bit of shopping and froyo eating at Hillcrest Mall with Meishan and Tinlop and then Faye Goo chiming in for lunch at 聯記 on Major Mac. Afterward, we went back to my place and baked! We made almond cranberry biscotti, fluffy pound cake and cranberry oatmeal cookies. While things were in the oven, we watched the HK Duck Show 2010. I must say, like Miss HK, the contestants are not getting any better by the year. More like the reverse happening, LOL Nonetheless, we had fun watching it (we always have fun watching it, especially in a large group). After the show, we brought back some growing up memories by playing a few interactive rounds of The Price is Right. By that time 文生 had come home from class so he locked himself in his room while we screamed some more in the living room. The day happily ended with a HUGE Italian dinner at Dante's (their tiramisu SUCKED ROCKS though!!).

Ahhh, good times!!

Summer's Coming to an End Already?!

Wow, I can't believe it's been a month since I came back from Tokyo. Why does time fly by so quickly anyway? It seem like only a short while ago that I finally finished scrapping my Hong Kong 2008 photos (but it's been 3 weeks already!!) and I thought scrapping my 3-day trip to Tokyo would be a breeze. Wah, I'm a month behind lor! I just hope it's not going to take me a year and a half to scrap the couple of pages!!

With the CNE opening last Friday and the week-long non-stop raining, I'm gradually feeling the end of summer. Bleh! Temperature hasn't been exactly hot either. Sigh... although it is more comfortable at 22C when it's not raining, I'd like the summer not to end so quickly. July/August always give me a "vacation" kind of mood but once September rolls along, it's the back-to-school season which = ewwww. That just means leaves will fall, then snow and then the winter blues. Just thinking about the looong winter months makes me shiver. Poopie!

On another note, I just spent the entire night killing fruit flies. Must have squished at least 15 of them bastards. Teaches them to eat up my cantaloupe :( 見一隻殺一隻!!

"Iced" Milk Tea

伙計!! 唔該!! 一杯熱啡, 一杯凍鴛鴦, 一杯奶茶...雪糕!!

繼上次嘅茉莉雪糕丶綠茶雪糕, 小芬又有新傑作: 港式奶茶雪糕!! 非常成功, 勁有奶味, 唔太甜. 同上次一樣咁多膽固醇, 不過冇用糖改用煉奶. 更加滑但係更加多脂肪呢! -_-"

睇見都想食!!

Meeting Marathon

嘩~!! 日日係咁開會、日日如是... 3 個鍾、5 個鍾... 又冇飯食!! 邊有咁多會開!! 最慘係自己嘢做唔完, 要 OT!!

慘慘慘!! 又係嗰個字: 厭!

Catch Up Time

Where do I start? I'm so behind on blogging it's not even funny. Been pretty busy at work and what can I say, laziness plays a big role too.

On July 10th, Karen, 細V, Gootoe and I finally made an attempt to go to Niagara on the Lake and complete that wine tour Karen and I've been talking about for months. It was a whole day trip, starting with breakfast at On the Twenty, then Cave Spring in Jordan, then Southbrook, 大山行, some lavender farm, Pilliteri, Stratus, then Tim Hortons (LOL), some little shops in Niagara on the Lake, then Peller and finally Inniskillin. We left Inniskillin just as they closed, at 6:00pm, and went to have dinner at The Keg overlooking the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. That was neat! After a short walk after dinner, we headed home. Good thing it was Karen that drove, otherwise I would have fallen asleep behind the wheel (like I did a few times when driving Gootoe home). Finally got home at 2:00am and passed out.

Ice and dessert wines were mainly the highlight of the tour, probably because no one really cared which wineries we visited and so I picked the ones I wanted to see. Southbrook is one I really like and ever since they've moved from their Major Mac and Bathurst location, I wasn't able to get the wines that the LCBO didn't carry. Their new vineyard and winery at NOTL is very modern but unfortunately, the front of their building looks like it's under construction with the blue "hoarding" around it. So much for design that I don't know how to appreciate, LOL.

I really liked the ultra modern look of Stratus, a smaller winery next to Jackson Triggs (we didn't even bother with JT). Nicole and Nathan had lots of fun chasing butterflies and running around in their vineyard.

Apparently, Pilliteri and Inniskillin both renovated so they don't really look like old fashioned cellars anymore. My favourite cabernet franc from Inniskillin was on sale so I just had to pick up a bottle!! Otherwise, I made sure I bought wines that weren't available at the LCBO/Wine Rack.

My 戰利品's:

1. 2008 Southbrook Triomphe Cabernet Sauvignon (organic)
   
2. Sonoma Smoked Olive Oil
3. 2006 Inniskillin Cabernet Franc ice wine
4. 2008 Stratus Riesling ice wine
5. Southbrook Cassis
6. Southbrook Blueberry
7. Southbrook Blackberry
8. 2005 Southbrook Vidal ice wine
9. 2004 Pilliteri Cabernet Franc ice wine
10. Vineyard Pantry Blue Cheese Dijon Mustard (front)