The long weekend, in review
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dagibbsIt was a good, and busy, long weekend. Yay.
Friday started with dinner with Alexis (a friend from high school), and her girlfriend Lisa who were visiting from Toronto for the weekend, along with frenchzie, raynedaze, commodorified and fairestcat. We went to Koreana for all-you-can-eat Korean, then all bur raynedaze came back to my place for a bit more hanging around, socializing and drinks.
Saturday morning I was up bright and early -- about 7:10am -- for an 8am departure to Montagne d'Argent for rock climbing. A group of 6 of us left from my place and had a good day of climbing. I on-sighted a 5.9 sport climb, an easier trad climb, followed a couple other climbs, and top-rope a few more. On the way home, we stopped for food at the casse-croute in Brebeuf as has become our custom. I got home around 9pm, grab a bit more to eat, arranged climbing plans for Sunday, then got to bed by around 11:30pm. (Early, that is. I was tired.)
Sunday was another day of climbing, but meeting at 9am rather than 8am -- so the alarm clock was set later. I woke up at 6am, though, for no apparent reason. Didn't get up, but still ugh. We headed out to Mont Rigaud, just Celine and myself. I warmed up on a couple routes I've climbed before (leading one, top-roping the 2nd), then look at another line which was bolted (sport) and looked like it would probably go, or at least the lower part looked good. (There isn't a published guide for Mont Rigaud, so there is a lot more look & guess to it. But, cliff-top access is easy, so one can rescue gear if one gets in over one's head on lead.) And, you're generally better and safer falling from higher up the cliff than lower -- as unintuitive as that may sound. I ended up, happily, get that lead clean -- though there were a couple places where it got a bit tough. Turns out to be about a 5.8 climb, but still a good lead. Lead one more route after that, and top-roped a few more. I was home by dinner time.
Unfortunately, my evening date had to cancel due to family stuff. :( But, the evening rescued itself with Pho with clinkerfiasco, then wandering over to raynedaze's place to hang out with a few people there, including the returning random and other flailites.
Monday was gaming at my place -- I had a good crowd, and gaming lasted from about 1pm to 1am -- with a dinner break in the middle. I ended up at the Koreana again, feeling like I'd recently been there (which I had, Friday), but we went with menu rather than all-you-can-eat, so I had a couple things that were a bit different from the usual.
After gaming, I wandered over to a Victoria day party that roseknospe had posted to LJ, and got to see greensleeves who I hadn't seen in too long and a couple other people I know more vaguely. Ended up playing a few hands of Asshole there, too.
Oh, and I think I snuck a couple loads of laundry in there somewhere, too.
Definitely a very full long weekend!
Friday started with dinner with Alexis (a friend from high school), and her girlfriend Lisa who were visiting from Toronto for the weekend, along with frenchzie, raynedaze, commodorified and fairestcat. We went to Koreana for all-you-can-eat Korean, then all bur raynedaze came back to my place for a bit more hanging around, socializing and drinks.
Saturday morning I was up bright and early -- about 7:10am -- for an 8am departure to Montagne d'Argent for rock climbing. A group of 6 of us left from my place and had a good day of climbing. I on-sighted a 5.9 sport climb, an easier trad climb, followed a couple other climbs, and top-rope a few more. On the way home, we stopped for food at the casse-croute in Brebeuf as has become our custom. I got home around 9pm, grab a bit more to eat, arranged climbing plans for Sunday, then got to bed by around 11:30pm. (Early, that is. I was tired.)
Sunday was another day of climbing, but meeting at 9am rather than 8am -- so the alarm clock was set later. I woke up at 6am, though, for no apparent reason. Didn't get up, but still ugh. We headed out to Mont Rigaud, just Celine and myself. I warmed up on a couple routes I've climbed before (leading one, top-roping the 2nd), then look at another line which was bolted (sport) and looked like it would probably go, or at least the lower part looked good. (There isn't a published guide for Mont Rigaud, so there is a lot more look & guess to it. But, cliff-top access is easy, so one can rescue gear if one gets in over one's head on lead.) And, you're generally better and safer falling from higher up the cliff than lower -- as unintuitive as that may sound. I ended up, happily, get that lead clean -- though there were a couple places where it got a bit tough. Turns out to be about a 5.8 climb, but still a good lead. Lead one more route after that, and top-roped a few more. I was home by dinner time.
Unfortunately, my evening date had to cancel due to family stuff. :( But, the evening rescued itself with Pho with clinkerfiasco, then wandering over to raynedaze's place to hang out with a few people there, including the returning random and other flailites.
Monday was gaming at my place -- I had a good crowd, and gaming lasted from about 1pm to 1am -- with a dinner break in the middle. I ended up at the Koreana again, feeling like I'd recently been there (which I had, Friday), but we went with menu rather than all-you-can-eat, so I had a couple things that were a bit different from the usual.
After gaming, I wandered over to a Victoria day party that roseknospe had posted to LJ, and got to see greensleeves who I hadn't seen in too long and a couple other people I know more vaguely. Ended up playing a few hands of Asshole there, too.
Oh, and I think I snuck a couple loads of laundry in there somewhere, too.
Definitely a very full long weekend!
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Date: 2011-05-24 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-24 06:04 pm (UTC)I don't go to many other AYCE places -- but the ones I have been to tend to be, mostly, buffets -- with food that has been standing around for however long. I prefer this order-what-you-want method, and get it made fresh.
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Date: 2011-05-24 07:16 pm (UTC)Every AYCE sushi place I have been to makes the items fresh. Sometimes it's even still frozen but oh well.
I have never had Korean BBQ stuff but I am fairly certain I would like it. I have yet to try any Asian food I don't like unless you count things like chicken feet.
I shall have to try it sometime! Sounds like more fun with a group though.
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Date: 2011-05-24 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-24 07:19 pm (UTC)And, yeah, sushi AYCE do tend to be prepared fresh -- but I'm not nearly enough of a fan of sushi to go to that sort of restaurant very often.
(I do find, though, for buffets that Indian tends to work well, as many of the dishes are stews that, if you cook them an hour longer, it really doesn't hurt the quality of the food/taste.)
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Date: 2011-05-24 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-24 07:34 pm (UTC)You are as gracious of a guest as you are a host, and I thank you again for the delicious chilli chocolate you brought for everyone.
Asshole is a rather fun game, I plan on learning more card games, and investing into a few board games myself for future parties. You seemed to be kicking everyone's ass, it was very fun.
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Date: 2011-05-24 07:46 pm (UTC)Yeah, Asshole is a fun game. I've played a lot of games and a lot of cards in my time -- it tends to show.
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