Diefenbunker Escape Room

Dinner today -> The Works.
Julie, Gen and I went to The Works for our pre-escape room meal.  I told them we had to leave in 35mins so they were able to rush our meal out.  I got the Hunka Hunka beef burger.  It was a beef patty topped with peanutbutter, bananas, and bacon.  It was really good.  Could use just a tad more peanutbutter, but was still very peanutbuttery.

Julie got a really good milkshake combo too.  It was a mix of peanutbutter, banana, and coconut.  I tried it and you taste the peanutbutter immediately followed by the banana.  Then the aftertaste was a light coconut flavour.  I got the disappointing strawberry banana milkshake and Gen got a pineapple slushie.

Useless Escape Room News:
Ben organize a 12-person escape at the Diefenbunker.  The objective was to deactivate the bomb and escape in 60 minutes.  We were broken down into 3 teams and Jeff, Julie, Gen, and myself were on Team Alpha.  I won't give anything away but we slaughtered our Alpha puzzles with 24minutes left.  We were well organized and didn't rush or get too excited.  Ben was on Charlie team, and it looked like they were having troubles.  Ben was dripping sweat too :) 

In the end we successfully escaped, eventhough more than half the team ran away early because they thought we had deactivated the bomb, but we didn't yet *cough*Ben*cough*LeadingTheRunners*cough*.  Jeff, Gordon, Julie, another guy, and myself stayed back to shut down the bomb and then escape.
Overall this was a fun escape room.  I would recommend it.  Julie and Gen really liked it compared to their last escape at the uber-diappointing FunHaven escape "experience".

Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos.

Finished my Census.  I'm pretty sure I got the long version.  It took me almost 1hr to finish.  So many questions and some I had to look up the answer.  Not sure why the government needs to know how long it takes for me to get to work or what time I leave.  They can't really change any of that.

Snack today -> Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos.
I've never had these cheddar jalapeno Cheetos before, and apparently they've been around for atleast a couple years.  They are really good.  A good crunch followed by satisfying kick from the jalapeno.  Not too hot, but spicy enough.  I need more and everyone should try it.

Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos.

Dinner today -> Baguette with Pate.
Went with Susanna to by some river rock tonight.  We went grocery/dinner shopping afterwards.  I got a baguette to go with some discount pate for dinner.  I got a Mr.Big chocolate milk to wash it down.  It was on sale for $1.

Simple Dinner.

Happy Birthday Nathan!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATHAN!!!

Almost a Home Run

Useless Softball News:
CMC Strike Fighters played FP Edge tonight.  We won 18-8.  Our bats are hitting really well, but our defense needs abit of work, especially in the last innings.  We gave up 5 runs in the last inning.  We are now 2-0.

Shanan hitting deep to the fence.

I hit 1-for-3 tonight with a single.  My first at-bat was a really high flyball out to the center field fence.  If I got a little less under the ball, it would have been a home run.  I was so close.  My 2nd at-bat was another high flyball out to middle of right field.  That one was only a half-swing too.

Dinner today -> Hot Dogs.
Made hot dogs on toast after softball.  Just abit of Miracle Whip on the toast.  Washed it down with some Strawberry Yop.  I found this large sized Yop at Walmart.  I didn't know they made these bigger versions.

Hot Dog Dinner.

Loblaws Discount Food

Dinner today -> Fried Chicken.
Went dinner shopping with Susanna after work.  I picked up some fried chicken from Loblaws for 50% off.  It was only 6:30pm and it was already on discount?!?  We also grabbed some pate, cheese and sausage platter, baguette, and pork ribs.  All for 50% off.

Loblaws Fried Chicken.

Happy Birthday Ben!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN!!!

Weekend Report: New Garden

Put together my garden on Friday afternoon.  I built it in the front yard with some simple cinder blocks and filled it with soil.  I've planted some tomato plants in the middle plot.  Not sure what else to plant there yet.  For the little soil pockets in the cinder blocks, I want to get some herbs to plant in there.

New Garden.

Food this weekend ->
Peter, Ed, and I went to the new "Ox Head Restaurant 2" on Carling (by Wendy's).  We got there at 11:30 and the place was already packed.  Peter got some A4 beef rolls.  They were pretty big and looked good.

Beef Rolls.

Ed and I got the usual V17 Ox Head Special vermicelli.  It was very good and filling.  I think there was more meat than the one at Centrum, but I also think there was less noodles too.

Ox Head Vermicelli.

Barbequed some Korean short ribs on Saturday.  I had marinated them since Monday.  These were so good and the flames caramelized the marinade nicely. 

Korean Short Ribs on the BBQ.

I also made some white rice, broccoli, and cauliflower.  Julie came over to hangout and join me for dinner.  We watched a Chinese version of Running Man on TV while eating (one mission was to play Dance Dance Revolution on acupuncture mats!) and then we watched some original Sailormoon episodes to almost 3 in the morning.

Short Rib Dinner.