Ice wine

wine critique 2

The other wine that I bought while in Canada was an ice wine. Hernder estate Iced Strawberry to be exact. It is labeled as a sweet fruit wine. It tasted like the frozen drink mix before adding water to it. It was good but very sweet, almost thick. I don't think I would get this again or if I did I would mix it with frozen fruit and ice to thin it down.

Wedding date

Mel and I went to Ashley and Bucks wedding yesterday. We had a nice time but it was soooo cold. Getting from the car to the church and then to the reception was freezing. Poor Mel with her dress on was freezing her little legs off. Then at the reception we were in the back corner (of course) right next to a door with a really bad draft. Our toes were freezing and the band didn't start for several hours so there wasn't even any music to dance to.
It was long but nice, there was a homemade photo booth there with costume hats to wear for silly pictures. That was a lot of fun.

Boot to the head

Went to the Edge day show back in October and am finnally writting about it. It was Have Hearts last show and Bane was playing as well as Cruel Hand from Portland. It was so much fun. I some how ended up getting a bad black eye. It lasted over a week, which created some interesting conversations with customers at work.

I am the guy with the Future-Breed written on me and the sleaveless guy climbing over my back. I was so physically exhausted by the end of Bane that I only lasted one song with Have Heart before I had to go and sit down.

Mac Attack!

I shot an apple (Macintosh) with an arrow. Not as difficult as I thought it would be. When you spent as much as I did on my bow I guess it should be easy. Maybe I should have tried it without using my sights. Naa.

I had to put the apple on a spike on top of a bucket in front of my target because I didn't want to lose another arrow in the woods.

Wine review 1

I opened one of my wines that I bought in Canada for my first wine critique.

It is a 2007 Pinot Noir from Inniskillin. It was one of the wineries that we passed by in Niagara-on-the-Lake on the way to the Whirlpool Jetboat tour(which was so awesome).

I am a self proclaimed wine ignoramus. I know pretty much nothing except that there is red, white, sparkling and other types of wine out there. I have had some wine at some weddings and some was good and some was not. I figured I would try to find some good stuff but could never remember what I have tried so I thought I would write about them here.

The first thing I noted about the Inniskillin was that it had a screw off top. Maybe it's just me but that screams cheap, bad wine. Maybe not, but that's what it seems like. Sure I only paid like $10-15 Canadian for it, but I didn't notice the non-corkness at the store. I cracked it open and poured it into my wine glass (our wedding glass-the only wine glasses that we own). I tried acting all professional and swirled it and sniffed it. It has a nice bouquet (like I'd know a good bouquet, it didn't smell like crap, how's that). I took a taste and it set my tongue all fizzy and weird-like. Mel said maybe I should let it breathe more, I forgot all about that.

It was pretty good, after it aired for a little while it was smooth and has a pleasant grape/woody taste with a nice aftertaste that isn't bitter and make you want to chase it with gum to get the taste out of your mouth.

I guess I would give it a 7 out of 10 due to the fact that I have nothing to compare it with but would not hesitate to buy another bottle of either Pinot Noir or something from Inniskillin.

Date Night

All week long Mel and I talked about going out on Friday on a date. Mel had seen an ad for a movie and thought it would be cute so we planned on doing the dinner and a movie date that seems too typical and boring but is a classic date night because it can be fun. Mel and I can make anything fun.
My first boo-boo. I had assumed that we would leave Reese in charge and it would be no big deal. Mel wasn't crazy over the idea because we wouldn't get home until late and thought it might freak Relo out too much. No problem, a quick call and luckily Grammy said she would stop over and check in on the boys, making Reese still feel responsible but not feel nervous.
Next problem--- We had planned on going to eat at a local Italian place that we had always wanted to check out; then we looked at their website and found it was a bit more $$ than we wanted to spend. Had to make last minute eating plans and decided to go to The Old Country buffet. It has been an ongoing joke for us because every time we wanted to go they were either closed or had lines out the door. We got there just as a bus from Canada pulled in and so we decided to just wait in the line anyway. It was a decent price and the food was good. Weird though, the main courses we much better than all of the deserts. The deserts looked good but were nothing to get excited about.
We got to the movies and I decided to see The Informant! instead of The Invention of Lying, which was the ad that Mel had seen and sparked this night out.(note to self-do what she wants not what you think will be better!) Oh my Lord! after about 15 minutes of The Informant! I knew I had made a mistake. What a boring, worthless movie. It never got any better. One small twist in the plot and that was it, dumb and boring. We kept asking each other on the way home, "Who thought that that would make a good movie? and When they realized that the movie was going to be crap Why didn't they just stop filming and cut their losses?"

We still had fun and we finally got to eat at the OCB but we should have gone to see Zombieland. Ha!!

quick review

time flies and alot has happened and i'll try to remember everything. Mel and I have started to donate plasma and have been in twice. It takes a little longer than we had hoped it would and we can't bring Strider into the place. I went to Toronto with Mike and Rob and we went on the whirlpool jet boat in to whitewater on the Niagara River, but doesn't really count as whitewater rafting. While I was up there I did by a Stephen Hawking book A Briefer History of Time and I bought two different types of wine from the Niagara region, but again, I have to read the book and drink and critique the wines in order for them to count. We did see a Blue Jays game so that counts towards the professional sports games.
Today I chaperoned with Jaren to the Cumberland Fair with school. It was a lot of fun and we had a beautiful sunny day.

I think I got everything, it is hard to remember what has been going on without writting daily. I will try to keep up.