July 19th 2010 - Jack Johnson "To the Sea" tour!

Yesterday, I finally managed to head over to Sunrise and pick up two tickets for Jack Johnson's "To the Sea" tour. This year the concert is being held at The Molson Amphitheater in Toronto. When I saw his "In between Dreams" tour it was held there and it was amazing, however I really dug the "Sleep through the static" tour venue in Oro when it was a "green tour", it was six hours in a sunny field and being under a canopy of stars while he played gave it an even better vibe. Although, I can imagine the reason it is NOT being held there this year probably has something to do with the single lane dirt road to get out of the venue - as it took a solid three hours to get out of the parking lot.
No matter where he plays I know it will be a fantastic show, I am really looking forward to it!
The plan right now is to hit up Burlington on the Saturday and Sunday prior, checking out some new places to live and taking Chirssy's kids to Wonderland, then on the Monday night, hitting up the Concert! SO EXCITED!

Pour Vous mademoiselle Conroy

This is for Jenny. I saw it and remembered how much you love rubber ducks! (maybe all ducks? not just the rubber ones). I totally forgot about that fact about you, until I saw this picture. I said I would tumblr it, but since I now have followers that are not you and Colin, and I don't remember where I got this, I don't want to get internet yelled at for not crediting it, so blogger it is! Enjoy.

Even Fairy Tale Characters Would be Jealous

After our date night on Friday the weekend continued to be pretty fun filled!
Saturday we trekked on over to Coco and had a giggle fest with Kuba as Colin got his hair trimmed, then swung by Starbucks for a quick breakfast before traveling down to White Oaks. Made a sufficient amount of jokes about the scary people on the bus, teen drinking and being shanked, just in time to arrive at Olivia's 2nd Birthday party!
The moment she opened her present, made spending an hour in build a bear stressing over ever detail totally worth it!
After the party we hit up White Oaks mall for a quick shopping date, then met up with Darcy! Colin hit up some Saturday Baseball, while I stayed home and dyed my hair a few shades darker. ( I know, super exciting! ha ha)

After Baseball we decided to head to Winks for some drinks, met up with Krystal, Jackie and Ellerby for some singing (more like singyelling) and drinking fun times!
Sunday we slept till nearly 1pm, then spent the day eating pancakes and watching movies!

Already looking forward to this Saturday, we are going to Yuk Yuks. We already checked out the comedians and they actually seem awesome!

In other news we have made solid plans to head up to my parents for the May long weekend, which I am totally thrilled about.

We ARE the Triplehorns.

Friday night, we decided to have a date night. Western was having an open house at their observatory.
The open house started out with a slide show and sort of lecture about the popular misconseptions associated with astronomy, I went in thinking it might be a little dull, but the lecture turned out to be very interesting, and I learned some pretty neat facts (yeah, I said neat, and now you love me more for it.)
After the lecture we were invited up to the observatory patio to view various telescopes directed at the moon. But the best part of the evening was using the GIANT telescope inside the observatory to view Saturn. It also added to the ambiance of the evening that the professor that showed us Saturn was EXACTLY like Christopher Walken circa "Back to the future" give or take 50 pounds. (More give than take, so maybe not exactly ha ha.)
After our sweet evening of viewing the stars, we headed to Prince Al's for some greasy diner food and strawberry milkshakes!
Definitely a wonderful date night!

As we sway, the music is playing our notes

I said I wouldn't write posts simply outlining my weekend, but who really thought that was going to happen?
I will try to do a quick run down, instead of outlining every moment in exquisite detail ha ha.

Friday: As I mentioned was the Bad Ideas show. Tina, Jenny, Jen and Leslie met us at Call the Office and together we rocked out to a pretty kick ass performance. I thoroughly enjoyed cameo singing performances from Nick, and the cover of "Run Around Sue"
Weird side note, Jenny went to High school with Alex - the lead singer.
Saturday: Took in some fine Saturday shopping, checked out some new beds and did some questioning as to why we keep coming to the mall on Saturdays. Went to see CHLOE at Silvercity, it was not nearly as good as we were expecting. Since we had taken a mid day nap for about three hours, we were wide awake and starving at 1am and ordered in some PIZZA!
Sunday: Finally got to have a nice long sleep in together. Headed out to Smitty's for brunch and met up with Darcy for some more bed hunting and grocery shopping. Hit up the laundry mat, and came home to relax and prepare for another long week.

Once again, another spectacular weekend with my favorite person on the planet.

Dirty Little Looks

So excited for this evening! Tonight is The Bad Idea's CD release party at Call the Office! I feel like we have waited forever and ever for them to finally release this album. Well a year and one month minus a day ha ha. Part of the reason we love this band, aside from the fact that they are awesome, is that we saw them play for the very first time, on our very first date. Our very first date happened to be St. Patrick's day 2009 - We went to Black Shire and sipped on White Russians while bobbing to the sweet tunes of our soon to be favorite band, (well, favorite local band anyway). Tonight they play on our 1.1 anniversary, which is one year and one month - oh yes, you can expect me to count each month.
I am also pretty pumped that Tina, Leslie and Jenny are going to come out with us tonight!

The album is called "Dirty Little Looks" and as always I suggest you check it out!

THE BAD IDEAS

The art of language

I had my first ASL class tonight and it was INCREDIBLE! There are not enough words in the English language, or any language for that matter to describe how great it was.
One of the best parts of this class, is that my teacher, is actually deaf. From the moment class started, he started to immerse us in sign language, and when the only choice is to figure out what he is signing, you learn, and you learn fast. I mean of course he is incredibly patient and an excellent teacher, he didn't just walk in acting like we should be able to just catch on or anything, his methods are pretty great, not to mention his sense of humor makes everything feel a lot easier and more comfortable.
However, if we struggle or there is a lot that needs to be said, we have to result to spelling out the words we don't know (signing of course) SOMETIMES, it needs to be brought to the board and actually written out, it is pretty amazing, to basically have no talking in the class and be totally over taken by the art of the language itself. I am so excited for next week, I wish that I could go every single day. Really I wish I knew someone else that signed, I am going to have to use my free time to find a hearing impaired friend, which I am sure I could if I looked hard enough on Kijji I could ha ha.