A Birthday, Pretty Leaves, Chores, and Dead Sal-mon

So this basically goes down monthly now, but at least it goes down. The last month has been pretty crazy, for the both of us. Here is some stuff that might Tickle Your Fancy.

Meghan had a birthday, October 19th! Here she is blowin' out candles. Photos of Meghan blowin' out candles are just great...very cheeky.

More cheeky...

Fall in these parts is absolutely lovely - look at these pretty colors.

Leaves for days...

Chores at Shawnigan...Mark manned the leaf blower!

It was late in the season, but we still saw the Sal-mon running...its called the Salmon Run, but they don't actually run. There were lots of dead Sal-mon, and it was really stinky.

The seagulls come and pick the eyes out of the Sal-mon's sockets.

This bird just decided to post up on this dead Sal-mon.

This video shows Sal-mons swimming, and likely laying eggs. They are real tired, so they don't swim much anymore. When they get to tired to even attempt to swim, they just float down the river until they wind up at their final resting place.

California Dreamin'

The following is a list of what went down on my recent trip to California (in no particular order): some drinking, golf (at the 'lark), college football, fishing, shabu, matsu, shabu again (but 50 people were in front of us so didn't eat), a bit more drinking, shabu again, and of course hangin' with family and friends. It was a great trip, but too short. Nice warm weather was also very nice.

These are the only photos I have that were worthy of a post, which is amazing since so much went down. Too busy to snap photos I suppose...

That's my sis, Katie. Was nice hangin' with her. Got to see her new apartment and met her roomies; nice people. She was at the college football game as well. We had a blast.

The college football game field. The team we were cheering for was victorious on this day.

This was a pretty fun night - the usual when hangin' with the old crew...not sure what time it was, but I do know they wanted to pass out. I only snapped four photos this night, and all of 'em were like this. I miss these guys...

You're a big strong yellowfin tuna.

This big strong yellowfin tuna tasted real nice as well.

Porpoises are pretty neat, and agile. You can see them in action below - pardon the wind.

Lately...

Been a ton going on, but nothing really exciting to report. Maybe the camera hasn't been used appropriately lately...who knows?


This is the bathroom (washroom, WC, whatever) at Shawnigan. I had a chore...painting! Meghan thought it would be a great idea to take photos of me in action! I wear contacts, and it would be a bummer to have little white spots on them.

Straight rollin'...

Throw your hands in the air [aye-yeerr].

Monkey happy.

Irish folk and whiskey in the future!

Pretty view.

We went to this thing called Feast of Fields...was amazing. Would have taken more photos, but we were busy stuffing our faces. Basically, loads of amazing restaurants show up to this gig and give you all you can eat (and drink) for $75 per head. It was presented by FarmFolk.

There were chickens there - a whole coop actually.

Here is an example of one. They seemed pretty happy.

Cheese Rolling (and lots of drinks)

So we checked out some cheese rolling in Whistler this past weekend.
I think they said it is the first event of its kind in North America, which is neat. Whistler is also neat.


We had just arrived - so I decided to snap a quick one out the hotel room window. Hangin' at the pool you see in the background was real fun the next day.

Meg's employer, TAXI, was responsible for the event - this is the first night with TAXI folk and significant others.

Probably tough to tell, but we have pretty bad hangovers...and you couldn't get a Caesar until 11:30 - it was probably 11:00 when this photo was taken.

Some people wore capes to chase the cheese.

The weather was real nice, it felt like the desert. But as you can see, we were in the mountains. That is the cheese rolling course in between the orange fences.

That is an 11 pound wheel of cheese - would have sucked to have it hit you in the head.

That's a cheese rolling hat this guy is wearing...he looks happy, maybe its the Stella.

Cheers to a successful day of cheese rolling!

That's Mike - he had a good time. He is hangin' at the fire pit.

More fire pit - what a wonderful place to drink.

Yet more fire pit. Here is Anna and Colin - very fun to hang with.

Yep, you guessed it...more fire pit. I think we left about five minutes after this photo, but I can't really remember.

Right before we left, we dipped our feet in this river. It was very chilly, but felt very refreshing.

That's the river we dipped our feet in. Nice color...

Here is a video of cheese rolling. The cheese rolling phenomenon began in England. You can click here for some of that footage.

The weekend was sure a lot of fun...can't wait until next year. More carnage can be seen here, as well as some event photos.

Fire is Fun

So there's this thing called the Celebration of Lights that goes down in Vancouver... Four action-packed nights of Fireworks glory. Canada went first, then the States, and China was last night. Pretty damn bitchin'. Taking photos of fireworks is a lot of fun, even if you suck at it.

Wee...

Woo...

Aah...

Ooh...

Mmm...

Very stringy.

Perty colors.

We'd never seen fireworks like these before - they reminded us of killer bees. It was basically like this video for 25 minutes, but even more intense! The grand finale is Saturday night, but we won't be watching.

Bullé Bullé in Seattle!

So I don't really know where to begin...so many things happened this past weekend. I guess I'll start with where it happened...Seattle! We went down for our first Dean & Melissa visit since they moved to the Pacific Northwest. We were very excited...

We didn't venture outside of their neighborhood (Magnolia) and the adjoining neighborhood of Ballard. And there was no reason to! Everything we needed was in these two hoods...Finch, Bullé Bullé, Red Velvet Cake, Tito, Sarah's Party, Salmon in Locks, Super Bee Vehicles, Trains, Liquor, Cheddar the Dog, Discovery Park, Maggie Bluffs, and much, much more.

Every time the four of us get together, weird things tend to happen. An example of this is on Saturday night when we were sitting on the patio at their local watering hole (watering of course), there was a domestic disturbance across the way. This woman was yelling at the top of her lungs for a good half hour or so (maybe even an hour), and the predominant rant was something along the lines of "Tito, I'm a Whore"! Apparently she wanted the whole neighborhood to know these things...I think she was actually mad at Tito, so not sure why she was yelling that. Never heard a peep from Tito...

We had a blast and can't wait to go back - but hopefully they'll be coming up here next, and soon!

This is Finch, their new Pug, and that's his Bullé Bullé, compressed Bull Penis. He really likes it. He burned through that badboy over the weekend. I like how it looks as if he is smoking a cigar.

This is Finch again, with me in the reflection. He wasn't happy we were leaving.

We left Finch to go to Maggie Bluff's, this wonderful Marina Grill that kicks out nice jams. Turns out Finch could've come along - next time.

Cheers, Big Ears!

I forgot how good a Mimosa is at 12:30 in the afternoon! Yummy...

Couldn't resist the urge to photograph the Super Bee. Hopefully the owner saw me taking a photo of his Super Bee and thought "Yeah, that's right buddy...that's my sweet ass ride".

After brunch, we had a party to attend. It was in Discovery Park.

Finch was invited to, so we went and picked him up. He was really excited to get to the party.

Starting to lose the Mimosa buzz...

You're a big strong dog Finch.

After the party (we never actually found the party) Finch wanted to go for a swim.

Finch got really tired on the hike.

Apparently you can drink liquor that isn't intoxicating here. Does that mean non-alcoholic beer?

Salmon got it rough.

This is a Salmon in the Locks. It appears he is resting before his mission upstream.

Ah yes...the Ballard Seafood Festival. What a time this was. Ate way too much food, saw a mix between Dennis Rodman and Lenny Kravitz perform weird cover songs (really upset about not having a photo of him), and had a few drinks as well. Meg sure loved it.

Me and Dean were having fun to.

More proof of fun times at the Ballard Seafood Festival.

Photo shoot time at the Ballard Fish Festival Fake Fish!

This is where we heard the domestic disturbance...and drank intoxicating liquor.

Sort of sucks to end this post with a picture of a urinal, but this is no ordinary urinal. Apparently it is the biggest urinal in North America (or something like that). It is big. The photo does not do it justice. Later in the night a real drunk guy with a silly hat filled it up with loads of purple-ish liquids that came out of his mouth...it was everywhere.

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