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Three days of reunion/partying = one tired Ange :)

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Gantarmania: birthday bash

(and these are the relatively tame pictures...)

Great to see everybody, go stomping along the Ave and experience +8 weather for a couple days at least.

This was more about seeing people than places, but here are some highlights:

Friday: Took a morning walk across the High Level Bridge, which gives a great view of downtown, the Legislative Building, and the N. Saskatchewan River. On the way back, walked through Kinsmen Park and forgot how hard it is to walk uphill on ice. :P

Visited Neuroscience lab to eat some Spanish delicacies Esther had brought with her, including prosciutto (tasty) and anchovies in oil (interesting...). A small discussion on the perils of eating small oily fish when you have braces. Most of the crew will be gone within one or two years, off to the next stage (working or otherwise)...

Dinner at Lisa's, making it was interesting (sauce on baked salmon dripped down and caused 2 feet of eye-tearing smoke, forcing us to open all the windows & doors), ultimately very tasty and craziness abounding with making videos for Trish's compilation (it's all Jon's fault!). Headed out to Gantarmania afterwards, and partied till 3 am! Tom is eternally youthful as always at 30, how does he do it?? Falling asleep at 5 and waking up at 9:30 to find some keys made the next day kind of a blur...

Saturday: as sleep-deprived as I was, made it out for Pho with B-dette and Jess, discussed the trends of moving to Australia (B-dette's going too later this year) and how people all seem to be getting married at the same time lately. Craziness!

BBQ that night at a friend's place, semi-comatose until the poker set came out (don't know how, I actually won it all...). Headed over to the Empress afterwards to check out the newest pub on the Ave, opened by former Black Dog employees and doing pretty much the same business. I even put a hole in the wall in the same spot while playing darts...

Sunday: took the opportunity to sleep in, and just chilled with Lisa and Aleks on the Ave. Antique Cellar always has some interesting stuff, and visited the recently departed BD (it shall return, as assured by Sue Kiernan). Craving some eggplant hotpot at Buddy's, then helped make my own scrapbook present at Remedy cafe (they made one for me and Trish, so will wait until I get down to SF before looking at it).

Monday: woke up at 6:30 am to help Lisa clean up her house (kind of a disaster after 3 days of partying), then headed for the airport. 2 x 50 lb suitcases = arms of steel...

more later on Vancouver, which is the suck right now (rainy and cold), but should warm up tomorrow.

cheers, Ange