Go for a Saturday Wine Tasting at the Wine Station

I may or may not have passed through the Alcool Wine Station on a Saturday and have seen the "Free Wine Tasting" sign, and have fully chickened out about going in ...

(OK so maybe I went into the main wine station area but never to the tasting!)

So when plans were laid yesterday I was super excited.  (I also got to try out Cafe Loca so that should go on the list soon!!) We planned to go to a B-Boy dance off (yes we are that cool....) and then headed off to the Wine Station (* must digress here .... this is the ANBL Alcool New Brunswick Liquor that is located in a former train station - hence our name.  The train does not run here anymore ... but the booze does!)   We arrived, looked at wine and spirits, had wonderful anecdotes, and then low and behold ... we missed the real tasting ....

I didn't cry.

I wasn't even sad.

Because guess what, there was a wine sampling in the regular part - and good golly the wine was fantastic!  (Two bottles are now in my collection!)

So although it was not the traditional sampling I was expecting, this was perfect for the list!!  Thank you Sweet ones!

Eat at the elevated resto at the market

I have been dreading this one ...

If I had added "have root canal" to the list I would have been more excited for that than breakfast at the elevated restaurant at the market.  I had heard nothing but bad things about this place, but since it was already on the list it had it be done!

And the Sweetest people were my victims in crime ...

An 8:30am start to "beat the line" is a false statement we shall never utter again.  There seems to always be a line! 

After being jammed in like sardines and sharing our table, we sat down and ordered our meals.  Big J was able to smuggle/blatantly bring in OJ from another vender.  I was a little scared to order based on the bad reviews I heard, but I thought who can go wrong with a "breakfast burrito"!

FANTASTIC breakfast!

My only complaint would be that there was too much food on my plate. But I did relishe the random cinnamon bun placed on the side for a breakfast dessert! 

Get Kaiser a girlfriend

The K-dogg (or in keeping with the times, K-Lion/K-Raccoon?) is a lovely creature, but he loves the bitches.  He doesn't mind hanging out with a lovely lady such as yours truly, but he misses a good bitch.

So I was very excited when I heard the Sweetest ones were getting a girl puppy.  A perfect match for the cat who thinks he is a dog!

On their first meeting Kaiser may have been larger than Bea, but the roles have quickly reversed.  That doesn't mean Kaizie loves his bitch any less!  He keeps asking for more play dates (or asking for more food - I cannot seem to tell the difference!!)

Go XCountry Skiing ... or not

One of my favourite Counting Crows song lyrics is "at least you thought you wanted it". 

A wonderful line that can be applied to a lot of things in life.

And I really did want to XCountry ski this year. 

I brought out my Skis (Air Canada gave me the bill for extra luggage),I was invited out by S to hit the trails around Freddy, but then I had a slight little mishap of appendix removal and was mission control bound for the winter (great for hooking, no so great for anything involving movement!)

Although we had snow as late as last Sunday (April 14th!!) I didn't make it out this year.

So great intentions and thinking I really wanted it, trump actually going out!!

And as I include this staged photo, I realize this sentiment could easily apply to the politician's bike.  At least I thought I wanted it ...

Win at trivia

OK ... now that I have knocked off "Play trivia" from my list, it was only time that I added WIN to the list.

And anyone can do it once, so now team "One is the Loneliest Number" has added a second win to the list!!

What fun evenings! 

Our team has been doing well so far.  And the $75 wins don't hurt at all.

Though our team keeps growing, the lovely name still remains.  It came about when I was left abandoned one night and the next team was making fun of me sitting all alone, and they named our team.  I was invited to join these cute lads, as I thought I was being stood up by B&O, but (sadly?!? honestly these guys were cute!) my friends showed up, and the name has stuck!

Go to Hong Kong Waffle

I am more likely to be able to eat a waffle in Hong Kong then be able to eat at this fine establishment.  Although the sign in the window constantly says they are OPEN, this place seems to have shut its doors the moment I added going there to my blog in September.

So, due to the fact that I cannot go there, I would like to officially like to strike this from my list ...

Have a themed dinner party

When I thought about adding this item to my list, I thought about inviting my closest friends for an Italian evening with lovely pasta and flowing Chianti, or Indian with cold Tiger, or Mexican without after affects!  Little did I know that my first big themed dinner party would include me inviting over three of my classes to make German food at mein Haus.

So with recipes in German for Kartoffelsalat, Schnitzel, Kaesespatzle, and Schwarzwalderkirschtorte my classes mixed and mingled and figured out how to make the food!  What a wonderful evening!!!  I am so proud of my students, and it was a lovely reward to have them over to cook and chat in German outside of class.