Saturday Night Out on the Town

Saturday night before Christmas we had a grand old time out with family and friends. Below are some pics with brief descriptions, some of them may have been funnier in person. It was good to be together again, and I can't remember when the last time was that I laughed so hard.

The evening started out with us trying to decide what to do (this took quite some time of sitting around the living room staring at each other, checking movie times, and arguing about bowling). We finally agreed on bowling, while making a quick stop at Mark's apartment, Joe mentioned how much he hated the hanging season flags, especially Santa. This was brought on by the one Mark's neighbour has flying, so Erika proceeded to dare him to get out and punch Santa...

We made it to bowling without further ado.

Erika not too happy with her score.

Jeff & Sara

Erika gave up and started doing the reverse granny roll...and got a strike!

Then we moved on to the arcade. It was initially Mark and Joe who were in there, but on the way out we passed "The King of the Hammer". Mark pushed in two quarters and made Andrew give it a try (since he'd been calling him Thor all day). On the first try Andrew got the highest score, and tried for a second time and beat his own score. Grand Total: 867, a guy tried after him and only got 600 and something.

Thor's subjects bow before his great strength.

Mark on his motorcycle.

Chimney Bluffs State Park

We (Deb, Andrew, and I) went to Chimney Bluffs last weekend. It's a state park about 40 minutes from our house, on Lake Ontario. We had hoped to do some hiking, but unfortunately the trail from one side is straight up a hill and was covered in ice. The alternate route starts through the woods, but less than a 1/4 of a mile in we found there was a "lake" across the trail. So we took what pictures we could from the beach. We have plans to head back there in the late spring-early summer when things have thawed out.

These are glacial moraines that have been eroded into fingers, it's the only place like it on Lake Ontario. Moraines are what glaciers leave behind, it's the debris that they have picked up during their slow movements and then (I'm assuming) these ones broke off into Lake Ontario and Chimney Bluffs is what they left behind.


I was having fun playing with my camera, these rocks were so cool!

An Education in Piercing

I have no piercings, I sort of wanted a nose ring or eyebrow ring in high school, pierced ears were too "normal" at the time. I've thought about getting my ears pierced, and the biggest thing that holds me back...pain! Those that have them, don't try to tell me that it's just a pinch and it's over, your lobes are sore for days as they get used to the foreign objects now sticking through them.
Over the years I have had clients with piercings and most of them are quite excited to share their knowledge, attempt to gross me out or attempt to convince me to get something pierced, especially if they find out I have none. I've been taken through the steps of stretching, I still think it's gross but now I understand how it's done, as well as some of the dangers. And I have learned that cartilage piercing is quite dangerous due to the risk of infection. And once it is infected it is difficult to treat, often leading to deformities, such as cauliflower ear.I've also seen my first nape piercing a few weeks ago. Just like it sounds, it's at the rear base of the neck. That creeped me out a bit cause she kept playing with it and sliding the curved bar back and forth. But she was very excited that I noticed it and asked her about it.Now for the worst piercing that has just come to my attention. Corset piercing. Once again, EXACTLY what it sounds like. But it's more for looks than waist reduction. I still get the shivers thinking about it.
And what gives me even worst shivers, nipple piercing, every time I think about it I want cover my breasts with my hands. I went to school with a girl that had it done, as she was getting older she was getting worried about the damage that it might have done. Basically the doctors have said when she gets pregnant she'll need to be monitored and may need to have her mammary ducts, at best, reopened with a needle to remove the scar tissue, and at worst, surgery to reconstruct the mammary ducts/glands that have been damaged.
(sorry no pictures for that one)

Foggy Dawn

Christmas Lights

Some of you may have already seen this. Mr.Carson designed this for his houes a couple years ago, after the high levels of publicity, a car accident in his neighbourhood caused by his lights, and the increased neighbourhood traffic, he is now putting on his display in a park.

World AIDS Day

These next two are humourous, but they get the point across, I think: