Festive drinks

Time for meeting friends and having a Christmas drink :-) met up with Lindsey and Dale at Caravel brewery :-)

Christmas Time And Horror Movies

One of our favourite Christmas movies is called Krampus.  Of course it's a horror movie. I tell Selena often "Not everyone likes that" when it comes to mixing Christmas and horror.

 Well today I was about to leave for work and saw a strange sight at the foot of the driveway.  It was a large Christmas ornament. It immediately reminded me of IT and the red balloon and the sewer grate.  Nooooooo!

I went out to investigate and moved it.  Nothing bad happened like in those Christmas horror movies.    

All back to "normal" around here.  Merry Christmas! 

The Polar Express!

On Halloween, we went to Mossleigh and we experienced The Terror Train as you know from a previous post.

Selena also discovered they have a slightly less bloody experience called The Polar Express.  If you haven't seen the movie, it's one we watch every year, along with other Christmas classics such as National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Black Christmas and Die Hard.   And yes Die Hard is totally a Christmas movie!

I had no idea what to expect.  The Polar Express is what the kids these days call an "immersive experience".  Not only do you actually travel down the tracks, all the characters are recreated.  It's all there - the dancing, the hot chocolate and Santa Clause.  They are actually licensed to do this so they have all the merchandise to make the experience even more magical. 

I would highly recommend the trip out to Mossleigh and experience Christmas like you never have experienced it before 

That Time Selena Tried To Pay For Dinner

It was cold and wet December day also known as Date Night.  I got home a little late so our plans for a movie were not in the cards.

Selena said she had a gift card from The Keg so let's go have a nice dinner.

I agreed and off we went.  It was a wonderful meal as usual and then the bill came. 

Selena proudly pulls out what she thinks is a gift card and places is in front of the waiter.  The waiter politely says that's not a gift card.   

At this time I started to pay attention and went to verify the waiter's statement.  I took a photo. 

He was right!  What Selena had presented only looked like a gift card.  The waiter politely declined to exchange our meal for a worthless piece of plastic with a Keg logo on it. 

Another adventure with Selena! 

Truly a Christmas miracle.

To start this story I must go way back. Long ago we had a tree that fell down. In all the hoopla to get it back up we noticed that our little "Monsters inc" ornament had lost the girl character "Boo" (pictured above in red). Now, she is tiny to say the least .. and at the time we had a carpet that had overly thick shag ropes. It was so thick it was like a foot massage walking on it. Now zoom in to Maddie's little face sad about the broken ornament and asking if she can open a present ( smart kid lol ) so we say "if you find Boo, you can open one". Now in our mind this was an impossible request, until it wasn't. Not long after starting the search Maddie found Boo!!! We were stunned and so, let her open a present. Now cutscene to today, we have another tree ... That fell. And once again a few ornaments were broken in the crash and among them little Boo was lost again! There were piles of broken glass and pine needles and although I did look I did not find her. Given up hope now I hung the ornament without Boo. Then a little Christmas miracle... I was hanging a snowman on the bottom of the tree and looked up, what do I see trapped between two branches that could only have been seen from that exact direction? Little Boo!!!!! She is a stubborn little girl and now is happily glued back together with her friends!! Some Christmas magic for you :-) 

The Railyard Brewery

Had a fun night with some good friends :-) Checked out the brewery for the first time, we've wanted to firwver, found out next weekend is their two year anniversary! Where does the time go? Just like when I look back at the blog and say " that seems like yesterday"! Anyway good beers and lots of laughs with Dale, Cheryl and Lindsey, peeps from Vauxhall :-)

Halloween night

Had a funderful Halloween ! We went to a dinner theater who dunnit. We had to guess from clues who the murderer was . We got it wrong lol but we had fun! 

The "Star" was murdered with the ole award to the chest scenario.

Meanwhile in Vancouver Maddie and Carlos reverse trick or treated. They went as a door and made people knock on their door and gave out candy!!! 

That Time Selena Tried To Buy Some Popcorn

So this a lost blog from a few years ago during a previous trip.

Anyway, Selena wanted to get some popcorn for Maddie to bring home.  It's extremely difficult to find vegan popcorn at this place. Selena picks one and then it has a milk topping. Out. This other one had cheese on it. Out. Another had another disallowed ingredient. The poor popcorn girl really wanted to help.  So she brought out the ingredient Bible.  There's a McDonalds across the way so I'm thinking about a Big Mac maybe.

So Selena takes one look at this big binder and she doesn't have her glasses and says "I can't read." No big. I've heard her use that terminology before. I look back at the Popcorn sales girl and she is giving me a look with lots of mustard on it.  I'm thinking she's exhausted because we are taking all this time to spend 6 bucks on popcorn .

We leave without buying anything.

So on the plane home I'm thinking, why was she looking at me rather than Selena? Selena was being difficult. I just wanted a Big Mac.

Then it hits me.

Selena said "I can't read." She meant to say I don't have my glasses, I can't read your tiny print. The Popcorn Lady took that to mean exactly what Selena said. Selena couldn't READ!

And she was giving me the Look of Death because I knew that and didn't say anything or do anything to help! I was Dorkus Maximus to the Popcorn Lady.

Selena and I had a meeting after this and she agreed if this happens again she would say I Can't See rather than the ambiguous I Can't Read.

There's a BIG difference.

Go flames go

Go team!! 

Haunted Calgary

There is a haunted house in Rocky ridge that has been haunting us for years - recently we just found out it is no longer ..... At the house it is now in a mall with so much space of spooky fun!!! We went!!! And loved every spooky blood curtling screaming moment of the three houses!!!! Yay bigger and better!!! Awesome fun!!

At the start, we met up with Maddie and Choncho

Beautiful collection! 

Inside Asylum

Friends in a hearse ! 

Yay Maddie for coming to visit in October!!!

Terror train

Wow!! Just went thru the haunted train in Mossleigh Alberta omgosh so much fun !! I was greeted in the haunted house with a bloody hand smeering my face but ok - I'll take one for the team all in good fun!!!