Hmmm, what else? Oh yeah.
The Saints kicked the Falcons asses on Sunday!!! Damn dirty birds couldn't hang on to an undefeated season, not against the Saints and the Saints Nation. Woohoo!!
So, let's see, I'll back up to the Packers game. I forgot to take pictures while there so none to share. Unless of course you'd like to see one of Clay Matthews. My niece and Jim's daughter loves him so I took several of him for them. But other than that no pictures. The fly over was awesome as always. I did get video of the fly over though. Hmm, I wonder if I can get it in here, I've never tried to do a video before.
Hey, looks like I did it. Heee By the way that deep voiced singer is NOT HDiTty, it was one of the guys right behind us. The high pitched wooooo was me though. As you can see we were in the end zone. We were only 6 rows off the field, pretty nice actually since most of the scores were done on this side of the field. Unfortunately the Saints lost but we still had a great time. The first time that we've gone without having any assholes to deal with. Normally we have drunk hecklers. I don't mind some good hearted ribbing but it's usually pretty nasty. I have to say, everyone we were sitting around were really cool.
A week later we were on vacation. We went to Niagara Falls for the 5th - 7th. The 6th was our anniversary. It was both our first times there. We did the Maid of the Mist and the Sky Wheel (a large Ferris wheel). I got a couple pictures from there.
The second one was when we were sitting at the top for a little bit looking pretty much straight down. And as you can see the trees were turning quite nicely. Unfortunately the glass wasn't a true glass and was all scratchy and dingy.
We also went to the botanical gardens which were nice. Gotta say I was glad we only paid $5.00 for parking because although it was nice it wasn't worth more than that. When I was researching all the places to go it was always on the list of top places to see. Maybe during the height of summer but in the beginning of October it wasn't all that great. I was expecting these terrific fall colors but none of their trees had even begun to turn. We're assuming they must water them which kept them greener for much longer than normal. There were still a lot of flowers in bloom but it just wasn't what I was expecting after all the hype.
Saturday night we went to a comedy club for dinner and a show since that's what we did for first date. They said there would be door prizes so we filled out our names and put them in the bucket. Mine ended up being called but it wasn't just for a door prize, oh no, I actually had to get up on stage and be a contestant in the guy's "game show." He had 3 questions about Thanksgiving. I got the first two correct so I won. I got his 20th anniversary DVD. We watched the first 30 minutes or so of it but it wasn't that great and a lot of it we already saw that night. He was pretty funny in person though and the food was good so we had a great time anyway. The video is way too long otherwise I'd put it here as well.
Sunday the 7th we hit the road to head to Ottawa to visit our friends there for the rest of the week. Sunday night we went to one of the couples houses to watch the Saints game and have dinner. After it was over we headed over to the other couples house that we were staying with for the rest of the week. We didn't do much other than hang out having good food, good conversations and good rest.
We did go bowling one night though. But not your normal bowling, oh no, it was Canadian bowling. Instead of 10 pins there were only 5 pins. And instead of a regular bowling ball you got much smaller balls that fit in your palm with no holes. And instead of two turns you get three. There are still strikes and spares but you only get a spare if you knock the remaining pins down on your second turn. If you knock them all down in your third turn you just get the equivalent of whatever they add up to. The five pins all total 15 points. It. Was. Crazy. Again the video of HDT is too long but suffice it to say it was a trip. We went with both couples, so we asked them if any had gone "real" bowling and only one on them had and he didn't like it much. Crazy.
So, what else. Ah yes. The kittens are growing up nicely. They're causing issues just like they're namesakes. Merry decided he wanted to go behind the tv and in doing so he knocked down a shadowbox that then hit a huge fleur-de-lis that then hit a little Saints gnome. The fleur-de-lis and gnome both broke beyond repair. Pippin has knocked things down as well but hasn't broken anything luckily and gotten into food items he shouldn't. But we love 'em.
So that's it really. Other than a UFC fight that the boys came over for and some other family get togethers here and there we really haven't done much.
Media quotes of the day:
Fool of a Took. Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity. - Gandalf to Pippin in Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
And in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King:
Why did you look? Why do you always have to look? - Merry
I don't know. I can't help it. - Pippin
You never can. - Merry
I'm sorry, all right? I won't do it again. - Pippin
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