It was a pretty tiring weekend
Ok, so it was a great weekend, but I didn’t get nearly enough sleep!
Friday was your typical Friday – we laid low and tried to recover from the week – which is a good thing, the next couple of days were going to be busy!
We did a little shopping Friday night to get the stuff for the Tiramisu and we also stopped in at my Mom’s place to visit with Aunt Heather (who’s down from Newfoundland). Shortly Newfoundland will be a ‘have’ province and will be paying equalization payments to Ontario (which will shortly be a ‘have not’ province) – I LOVE it!
Saturday morning I did go to my 6am meeting (there were only three of us there that morning – but it was still pleasant and productive). Then we did a little housework getting the place whipped into shape for the evening’s festivities.
We made the Tiramisu early that morning so that it had time to chill. We also cooked the onions, mushrooms and chicken for the meal that night.
I did a little more work on my side project – converting 60 8mm reels of film to DVD. The capture process takes a lot of time and you have to be there watching the whole time. The converting will take a bit of effort too since he wants labels on everything…
We finally started getting dressed for the party and it started pretty much on time. We were all dressed to the nines (and I didn’t get any photos – doh!) and we had a great meal. We sat around 6pm and started with Asagio Bread with Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar. Then the salad was served followed by the main course.
I cooked Chicken Fibonacci marinated in white wine and slowly roasted on the BBQ – it was tender and juicy and delicious. We served artichoke hearts and mushrooms with the chicken and oil basted gnocchi with caramelized onions and mushrooms – wow – what flavour!
Dessert (as you know) was homemade Tiramisu. It came out even better than our test batch and was the rave of the party. Then we wrapped the evening with a couple of bottles of Amarone wine Very fun.
Our guests stayed until about 10:00 (we were scheduled to go until 9, but I guess people weren’t ready to leave… we actually stayed around the dining table the whole time. I guess our 7’ table and 10 wooden chairs was a good investment. Cool.
Right after our guests left we changed into our grubbies and headed to a party at one of Sherry’s co-workers. It was her bosses’ birthday a couple of days before and this was his big bash. We stayed to 11 and then called it a night (keeping in mind that we’re usually retired for the evening by 9 most nights!) We didn’t get to bed until after midnight!
Sunday we actually skipped church – which turned out to cause a small panic for a buddy of mine – he was expecting us there and got a little worried when our phone wasn’t answered… he called my Mom’s place looking for me. I guess I should let Rick know the next time I plan to play hookie from church.
We cleaned up the house from the night before and I bottled a batch of wine for Dad. Sherry whipped the garden back into shape and I did a LOT of video capturing that afternoon – I actually have all of the reels on my HD now and I’m getting ready to start the render process. Very cool. Did I mention that this job is worth about $500 to me? That’s the start of our Mexican vacation right there I tell ya bye.
That night’s dinner was at Danielle’s place (my future potential Sister-in-law, maybe). She cooked chicken and ribs which were good, but the potatoes and veggies were amazing. She served the salad in cucumber bowls (which was pretty cool) and the dessert, oh the dessert. It was a chocolate and peanut butter as ours was Italian and espresso. Wow.
Home and in bed by 11pm. Yikes
I’m thankful to see Aunt Heather again
I’m thankful that Sherry works so hard (this would be tough to do on my own!)
I’m thankful that our family is so close
I know that God blessed me beyond everything I deserve
