Buffer Festival 2014

Buffer Festival 2014:

Buffer Festival 2014

 

Mama and Adrianne came to Toronto

Check out this video of all the fun we had while mama and Adrianne werenin the city.
http://youtu.be/Szi7ys3egvs

The Land of Thai

Sa Wat Dee! {Hello!}

Can I start by saying life is so good? I mean despite the jet-leg and our very chaotic flights, we finally made it to Thailand even though we were a day late leaving Toronto and missed a day and a half of our Contiki tour. 

I am so lucky to be able to travel especially with Jeff by my side! So where do I even start? Thailand has been quite the adventure. From elephant trekking, to snokelling with sharks and finding Nemo, to relaxing in paradise ... What can I say, its been pretty cool. We stayed at Sawatdee Patong Resort in Phuket 'the party city' and boy did we party, our first night out on the town we saw a lady boy show which turned into a 600 baht nap for me {and I think a few others}, drinking from buckets to seeing a pin pong show on Banglar road. It was an interesting night to say the least. 

Next we moved on to Koh Phi Phi island about a 3 hour ferry ride away. Loved the laid back attitude by day and crazy partying at night. This tiny island had so much to offer including Jared Leto!! The first day we island hopped to see all the beautiful beaches, snorkeled with sharks, found Nemo and even fed monkeys. 

At night we strolled the people filled streets, watched May Thai fights and later headed to the beach to drink from buckets and party like rockstars. This was true paradise here no filters are needed the water was so clear and  turquoise just as the photos show. 

Last stop was Krabi. The friendly staff at Aonog Cliff Beach Resort welcomed us with refreshing fruit drinks and handmade flower bracelets. We only stayed here for 2 short days before ending the tour. We climbed 12,000 steps to find big Buddha looking over the city, spent the next morning riding on the back of elephants and relaxing in hot springs later that afternoon. Thailand was true paradise, 10 days was not long enough to enjoy this beautiful country. 

 

  

  

   

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Maybe next time Halifax

As we strolled along the cobblestone path near the river looking for the best place to enjoy a lobster dinner... This is how I wish this post begin unfortunately, our family trip to Halifax ended before it began. We had planned to fly out Sunday morning and extend our long weekend trip till Tuesday but, because our seats are standby we basically were forced to cancel. Apparently everyone decided they wanted to visit Halifax too.  Ugh! {so not impressed}

Onward...

 The In laws still came to spend the weekend in Toronto and partake in some city fun {maybe stroll the streets pretending we're tourists}, it seems we've spread our love around most parts of the city and I must say the weather was heavenly, couldn't have asked for a better weekend. 

Saturday afternoon we {J had to work} headed down lakeshore to check out the Caribbean carnival paraide. I mean it wasn't quite what we were expecting when greated with a giant 8 foot fense to gawk through at the paraide. |not my kind of fun| none the less the costumes looked fabulous {from what we could see}  

but, we quickly got bored so we took to the streets paths of HarborFront we strolled around for a bit, waited a short time in a long line at Amsterdam Brew house than realized we'd be better off going to a different bar.  We ended up next door at World Cafe with a nice view along the water to watch the boats sail past and children in canoes and paddle boats make their way around the tiny Natrel rink. We laughed our butts off at one child who had a cup to bail the water out of the back of his boat and another little girl who didn't seem to noice the water rushing in the back of hers and her butt sinking into the water. 

△△ My dates for the afternoon

△△ HaHa!! 

We salvaged the rest of the afternoon once J got home from work with a glass {or two, or three, or four} of rosé and a little BBQ action for dinner. 

 

Sunday basically we ran all over the place. We hit the city bright an early, I mean noon seems early enough when your on vacay & maybe a little hungover from too much wine and Cranium from the night before {blame it on the veggie juice but I was feeling like a freaken super hero}

We did a little shopping on Oueen West then wondered uptown to Kensington Market for the afternoon. We enjoyed window shopping at the produce markets, ate some tacos & had some real lemon-lemonaide. Next on the list was a vist to China town, apprently dad thought Kensington was China town huh? Not sure how one can confuses the two but I guess if you've never been. lol

△△ Lemonaide stand in the ally 

We ate dinner at Big Daddys Bourbon Street Bistro. It was a cute place on King east with great eats of southern creole style food. 

△△ delish coconut chicken tenders Mmmm

Monday J & I woke up and walked over to the perentals hotel to get them for breakfast. We had a relaxing afternoon played a bit of catch in the park then enjoyed lunch, a few beers and sangria at the amsterdamn patio over looking the water.

 

  

 

 

 

△△ enojyed some delishious dinner at Koren BBQ on Queen.

 

We wrapped up the weekend just how it started with BBQ'n some delicious juicy burgers for lunch followed by an action packed family fooseball game. All in all great weekend.