Invasion from the pond

Well, it has been a nice weekend. My Goddaughter's siblings and mother, plus BT and her son, all came down on Friday night to spend the weekend with us. They arrived at ten, thanks to BT's driving, and we sat up much longer than that before we sent the kiddies off to bed. Then the adults did some catching up, finished of a 12 plus two, before retiring ourselves around 3 or 4.

On Saturday, we lazily got up and eventually got ourselves together to head out to Wasabi, a local all you can eat sushi joint. While I will never say that it is the best sushi in town (that honor goes to Hama Sushi in Markham and The Mikado in Leaside), it is a great value. The cost ($12 adult, $8 under nine, $2 under four, plus $2 weekend and holiday premium, lunch prices) includes lots of all you can eat menu items, unlimited soft drinks, and desert (fried banana, red bean or green tea ice cream or rice pudding). I will never say they have the best service, but if you go in knowing this, yu will leave quite full for little cost. The visitors were not as up on the raw fish as DW and I, so we were stuffed ensuring there were not too many table scraps (they charge if you order and waste too much food). All in all, still quite enjoyable.

From there we headed north to visit Double D's family in Newmarket. A L eventually popped up as well to join us. Their poor oldest was really under the weather so could not enjoy our visit but the twins had a blast. A view well mixed drinks later and so was I. Tempered all that "fun" with some Taco Bell and KFC and then it was back to Scarborough for us. A nice, and successful, visit all around. Once home, folks were pretty tired so most retired fairly early for some rest.

On Sunday, we were supposed to go to Golden Griddle but we were all too stuffed and tired from the day before to really do anything. The visitors went out after lunch for a lunchtime meeting with my Goddaughter's Godmother. DW and I stayed back and tried, unsuccessfully, to get some much needed stuff done. When they returned, I had hooked up the second Dreamcast we had kicking about (we gave it to the kids to take home) for them to play. We then decided to watch a movie first, at which point we kicked the kiddies downstairs so that we could watch it on the big screen. We then had a taco feast, thanks to DW, where it was nice to have nine people around the table for some good food and fun times. A L had joined us but left before we started the second movie. When it was done, the crew went to bed and I tried, and failed miserably, to get some work finished.

This morning, I woke up feeling like total crap. I really hate coughing and this one is starting to go deep in the chest. I need to get rid of it before the weekend as we will be snowboarding, skiiing and skidooing somewhere in Quebec for the first weekend of the March break, courtesy of BT's family. If not, I will sure as hell try to kill it there with tons of alcohol (for medicinal purposes only, naturally).

Peace.