Sunday, November 21, 2004
Weekend Update
Just a brief blog entry tonight, about 9pm on a fairly warm Sunday night (4oC). They're forecasting heavy snow overnight, so we're expecting to be shovelling in the morning. We've had a pretty busy weekend - I was on-call on Thursday night, so I came home on Friday morning for a bit of a sleep. Then we went over to the Hubers' house on Friday night for dinner - we had a very nice time, and met their 2 cats Elvis and Ella. The drive home was a bit hairy, minus 6 and sheet ice off the main roads, but the Jeep managed very well.
It was an "up and out" Saturday, as we had work to do... We headed off the Farmers' Market at Currie Barracks to stock up on our favourite Chinese dumplings and fresh vegetables.
Outside Currie Barracks
Inside Currie Barracks
Then it was off to the new IKEA in the south-west of the city. We had seen Geri and Christine's lovely new dinner table on Friday night, and we had decided that it was time to upgrade our own kitchen table from the small one we originally bought off Richard and Emma when we arrived. It was just big enough for the 2 of us, and when we had 4 or 6 round for dinner, it was getting a bit ridiculous.
Our original table
IKEA was packed, as it's only been open for about 2 weeks, but we managed to get a new table (BJÖRNA), as well as 2 chairs and various bit and pieces of kitchen stuff from their Marketplace section. We had brought the Jeep, as the parts of the table would never have fitted in the Honda. We got the back seats out, and also discovered where the jack and tyre iron live!
Fully Loaded
We got lost on 11th Ave on the way home, but finally made it to Canadian Tyre where we were looking for Christmas lights, a temperature sensor for the Honda and a new, bigger snow shovel (should come in handy tomorrow). We got all of these, and then decided to head off to our favourite kitchen shops, Pots & Peppers up in Cochrane, where we invested in our first Canadian Denby, 2 plates and 2 bowls from the Reflex range. To date, we've been making do with a set of dull, grey plates and bowls we got from IKEA when we were first here in May, and we decided it was time to get some nice plates again, having left our own Denby stuff at home. Then it was home for roast chicken dinner, after putting the table together.
Hard at work
The new table
The table is 1.5m long and can be extended with a middle section to 2 metres. So now our kitchen is looking better and it's more like home. Today was spent at home, constructing our chairs, putting up our Christmas lights and sorting out our present and card lists for Christmas, before a dinner of Chinese dumplings and noodles. And the Toronto Argonauts beat the B.C. Lions in the final of the Grey Cup this afternoon, against the odds. See you later,
J
It was an "up and out" Saturday, as we had work to do... We headed off the Farmers' Market at Currie Barracks to stock up on our favourite Chinese dumplings and fresh vegetables.
Outside Currie Barracks
Inside Currie Barracks
Then it was off to the new IKEA in the south-west of the city. We had seen Geri and Christine's lovely new dinner table on Friday night, and we had decided that it was time to upgrade our own kitchen table from the small one we originally bought off Richard and Emma when we arrived. It was just big enough for the 2 of us, and when we had 4 or 6 round for dinner, it was getting a bit ridiculous.
Our original table
IKEA was packed, as it's only been open for about 2 weeks, but we managed to get a new table (BJÖRNA), as well as 2 chairs and various bit and pieces of kitchen stuff from their Marketplace section. We had brought the Jeep, as the parts of the table would never have fitted in the Honda. We got the back seats out, and also discovered where the jack and tyre iron live!
Fully Loaded
We got lost on 11th Ave on the way home, but finally made it to Canadian Tyre where we were looking for Christmas lights, a temperature sensor for the Honda and a new, bigger snow shovel (should come in handy tomorrow). We got all of these, and then decided to head off to our favourite kitchen shops, Pots & Peppers up in Cochrane, where we invested in our first Canadian Denby, 2 plates and 2 bowls from the Reflex range. To date, we've been making do with a set of dull, grey plates and bowls we got from IKEA when we were first here in May, and we decided it was time to get some nice plates again, having left our own Denby stuff at home. Then it was home for roast chicken dinner, after putting the table together.
Hard at work
The new table
The table is 1.5m long and can be extended with a middle section to 2 metres. So now our kitchen is looking better and it's more like home. Today was spent at home, constructing our chairs, putting up our Christmas lights and sorting out our present and card lists for Christmas, before a dinner of Chinese dumplings and noodles. And the Toronto Argonauts beat the B.C. Lions in the final of the Grey Cup this afternoon, against the odds. See you later,
J
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