Project 289 - Day 231 (Tuesday 3 November 2009) : I Biked, I Ate, I Meatballed

Ah what a glorious day!

I spent the morning blogging - amazing that I could fall behind while on holidays but I managed it!! - watching "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" live (no repeat episodes from a year ago thank you Channel 9!!), having an hour's nap (these holidays are rough man, rough!)....very slovenly, holiday-ish and self-indulgent.....just the way life should be on holidays right? (Just agree with me. I am right anyway and agreeing will make it all go much faster!)

After letting myself go completely over the course of 3-4 hours - by the end I was lounging on the couch, contemplating a martini and another bagel (OK maybe not the bagel bit!) - Ken returned from running and exercising and we set off for lunch at Milestones, one of my favourite Canadian destinations for food. The ambience is usually dark-ish and sophisticated, the food is yummy (always a good thing when you're eating), and on this occasion, the waitperson was a totally cute spunky young English guy who apparently competed on "Canadian Idol". I haven't yet checked out his songs but his sound is Dave Gray-ish in style which is great because I like that style of music.

I had a Bellini or two (alcohol at lunchtime is becoming an increasingly large part of my holiday experience... I am such a lush!), ate their spinach, cheese and artichoke dip (mmmmm-yum!) with Ken for my Appy (appetizer or entree) and then had the most sensationally delicious meal - pan-seared scallops in a yellow Indian style curry on jasmine rice. OMG! De-freakin'-lish! I could have died and gone to heaven then but decided that I had to eat all the Halloween candy still at home so I put that event off for another 40-50 years or so...

After fond goodbyes to Paul, our soon-to-be famous waitperson - I should have got a photo with him in case he does become famous!! Dang! - we headed home and hit the road on bicycles (not sure that was a good idea after all those Bellinis but still!) bound for the PoCo Trail which runs besides the Pitt River in Port Coquitlam, on a series of dykes (I could make a silly joke here but I have too much respect for my lesbian friends to do that. It is tempting even so which is clear evidence that my 10 days with Sandra and Ken's kids have regressed me somewhat.). The scenery was stunning - lots of mountains and trees right on the edge of suburbia - and there were heaps of people out and about walking dogs, pushing kids in prams etc.... I have one question for them... why are you out and about enjoying nature when you could locked in an airless cubicle Outlooking your life away? Seriously what were they thinking?! It was absolutely invigorating cycling 10 or so km even if by the end of it all my butt hurt and my legs were like jelly as I rushed upstairs to get changed for our mad dash to see a movie at a cinema 45 minutes away!

So we dashed - well as much as heading into peak hour traffic would allow - over to Metrotown in Burnaby to see "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs", an hilarious kids' movie about a geeky guy who invents a machine tha can turn rain into food. At first all is well and the town rejoices but then people get greedy, all goes awry and the geeky guy (and the girl he lands....yep right!) must save the day. The visuals were fabulous - at one point the entire town is transformed into a giant ice cream sundae -, the dialogue snappy and funny, both for adults and kids, and they even touched on some modern isues such as the shallowness of the media etc. All in all, a bundle of fun that all of us loved...

Unfortunately Sandra got caught in meetings so couldn't join us, but we managed to find her in Metrotown, and headed back to Po Co for dinner at Whitespot, which the kids loved courtesy of their meals arriving on cardboard pirate ships. Sadly my burger came on a plate, but was yummy even so....

Wow a full day of fun and holiday frivolity and I was mighty glad to go to sleep that night.... dreaming of giant food falling from the sky .....thankfully no although it was funny that the regular sized popcorn and soft drink that came with the adult tickets to the movie were HUGE and mirrored the events of the movie eerily.....