The Weekend In Pictures

The Weekend In Pictures by jimmycanuck

October 23, 2006, 11:16 am
Filed under: family, flickr, pictures, youtube

This weekend was quite the adventure for a shut-in like myself. Saturday was our second anniversary, and to celebrate Hailea and I took a trip out to Fort George. It’s one of the most important locations in the War of 1812, it’s in our own backyard, and yet we’ve never been. Definitely a very fun trip.

We now have oodles of photos of Fort George on flickr – unfortunately, they’re not sorted into a set. flickr only offers so many sets with the free account, and I’m all tapped out. I desperately want to upgrade to Pro, but I just haven’t gotten around to it. Add it to my Christmas list, people! Here’s a personal favourite;

Later that day, we went to Jack Astor’s for dinner. The food was great, but I did have one major complaint that I should really pass on to you nice folks. As soon as the food arrived, I found hair in it. Not only that, but I found it twice more as I was eating. Now anyone who knows me can attest to the fact that, despite the teeth I may show online, I’m a big puss in person who doesn’t want to stir the pot. So rather than causing a scene like most would, when the manager came over to see how everything was I very politely said “I’m not one to complain, but I’ve been finding hair in my food. Like, A LOT of hair. Someone in you kitchen needs a hairnet and isn’t wearing one.” She apologized profusely and went straight to talk with the kitchen manager. Seems like a good solution, right? Then the bill comes.

They didn’t take anything off!!! Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t expecting the whole meal to be comped, but seriously, at least don’t charge me for the meal that was tainted. I was very, very unimpressed. Won’t be going back there again, which is a shame, because the food is fantastic. At least I got my own subtle payback. As you can see from the Mario I drew below while waiting for dinner, this is the type of restaurant with recycled paper and crayons on the table.

So I did what any enraged patron with no balls would do – I wrote in big black letters “HAIR IN FOOD + PAYING FULL PRICE = UNHAPPY CUSTOMER :(” Hopefully a few customers saw that before they cleared away our table. 🙂

(And just to be clear, I still tipped pretty well – our waiter was excellent, the quality of the food was not his fault, and it was his manager we spoke to about the hair, not him – so remember kiddies, always tip well for good service!)

Sunday was a little more family oriented. Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, Grandpa and Julia all went out to the Warner Ranch and Pumpkin Farm for a hay ride. Lots of “no set” photos on flickr for this one too. It was a lot of fun – Julia went mental for all of the animals. She also got to go on her very first pony ride – god bless youtube for letting me share it with all of you;

I also have a great video of her dancing at the Ranch, but I need to rotate it 90 degrees without squishing it, thereby making them look like waterheads. Also – I’m having a nightmare of a time right now with any Microsoft-based video stuff jiving with new videos from my camera, so even if I knew how to fix it, I couldn’t. That being said, if any of you out there have any experience with video-related fiddling and would like to help me get that one all sorted out, please, drop me a line.

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