This post is a little belated but it is note worthy and rather entertaining. It was a friends of our birthday a while back 2weeks ago to be precise. Dan is his name and a fine fellow he is. For this prestigious event John came up from Houston. Actually john's visit and dans birthday coincided with john having to renew his passport. Ill let the photos speak for themselves needless to say it started out all well, fine and good like the responsible adults we are. Thats dan and his lovely wife chantale, At the Mekong restaurant. If you're ever in Ottawa I highly recommend going there for some great chinese eats!!
This is me and My girlfriend gill. She looks a little psycho in this photo. Cant say why though. Must be john (he's behind the lense) Oh did I mention I had a root canal done the day before. Might be why I look oh so un-impressed. Im pretty sure the tylenol 3's arent helping either. That and the red wine. Oh just a little pointer here for any of you who decide to ingest tylenol 3's DONT DRINK. Man gill looks like a freeking nut. She's going to kill me when she sees I have posted that pic of her. GREAT cleavage though baby !!! I really need to get a better camera. Not that one I have is bad. Ok it sux, yeah it sux.
Heres john and gill. They're long time friends. And some serious partners in crime. I know its a shitty picture. What can I say. It was the redwine and tylenols. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. So as you can tell so far we started out acting like "adults". You know having pleasant conversation in a quiet stable surrounding. Being very polite. Snifting the redwine and chatting about current events over dinner. Catching up on what we've been doing with ourselves or to ourselves as the case may be. Dan hadnt shown up at this point the pictures arent exactly time line accurate. I think at this point john and gill were on their second bottle of wine. I was on my second glass and feeling numb or dumb or a mix of the two.
Our next step along the yellow brick road was to Milestones. Milestones is a swanky restaurant bar across from the Chateau Laurier on sussex. nice place!! I think its the only bar in Ottawa that serves Bellini's (an adult slushy basically) We had a few drinks to fuel the already burning alcohol fire. Im gonna go out on a limb here and say that we were still rather (well rather they were) well behaved.
See !! we're all well bahaved. Dan is rooting through his blueberry or palm pilot thingy showing us (porn) or rather photos of his kids. I'm sure he's looking at porn arent you dan you nasty dirty dog. Just a little side note here on Milestones it has a great atmosphere. With stunning night views of rideau and sussex , its situated right across from the Chateau Laurier and faces the Old Ottawa train station. I should have gotten off a shot or two, not that they would have turned out any better than any of the other photos. Actually john and gill have a rather funny story about their last trip to milestones. Maybe I'll save that for another day. So we had a few drinky poo's here and then headed for the Dom ( the dominion pub) for those of you who are unfamiliar with Market speak. John's bro works there (peaches is hi
s nic-name?) I some how doubt their mom named him peaches but thats the only name I know him by.
The Dom is a colourful Market bar for the Alternative crowd, welfare bums and young hipsters in Ottawa. It has a very unique atmosphere rooted deep in Ottawa history . I think other than the other tavern, The laff ( chateau Lafeyette) it is one of the oldest taverns in the market. I would say that it has a large student crowd (ottawa Uniersity) though all the bars are filled with the university crowd. So I may be off on this. We stopped in at the Dom for a drink or two and so john could say hi to his bro. I think John is addicted to the laff. I notice his blood pressure goes up when we spend too much time away from there and he obsessively watches his watch until we get there. Hahahaha silly fool john. It wasnt until this point that things started to go horribly astray. Well maybe they went as they were supposed to go but then again I wasnt drinking all that much so I had a vastly different view of the events as they unfolded. SO fromt he laff we fell next door into the waiting arms of the Zaphod beeble brox. Another very cool retro-sexual hang out. I swear to god when I walked in there that I was in a grunge video shoot. Can you tell I dont get out much. Oh that and the carpet is spungy sticky underfoot.
This guy gets the award for the best rock star hair. I just cannot imagine a guy spending hours getting his hair looking like that with all the spikes heading in the right direction. North as the case maybe. Compass head. Dan you aughta employ this guy as a personal gps tracking assistant. I'd hang with this guy if I were lost , at least I'd always know which way north was. I was wondering for a bit while staring in awe at him if he had had a colission with a skunk and a porcupine, ok that's mean I know but really!!! look at all the stripes !!! I'm pretty sure that his get up is totally intentional. Everything is all lined up (pardon the pun) very geometric !!!
And then theres the piece de resistance. Actually it was funny quip from john. He runs up to me while Im out side avoiding having to listen to prince and having a smoke. And he spouts off. "i'm going to kill some guy, you know how packed it is in there?!! I was trying to get out through the crowd and I stepped on some guys foot and he says to me below his breath but loud enough so I could hear it " dude that was my foot , I'm wearing sandals!" hahahaha what kind of idiot wears sandals to a crowded night club like zaphods and complains that his foot was stepped on?!!
Now whats funny about this is the manner in which john describes this event to me Quote" Ok lets look at the plan view ( did I mention john is an engineer) I laughed but he wasnt having any of it he really wanted to give me the plan view of the events as they unfolded"
At one point john dissapeared from the radar. Gill in her alcohol fueled state freaked and yelped OH MY GOD WHERE'S JOHN!!! Being the good shepherd that I am I had my eyes on these knuckle heads making sure they werent in all kinds of trouble. So I point to the other side of the bar.
So the night went on in that kind of crazy vein the three of them had consumed 6 too many Jager bombs each!! (I say the three of them Because chantal(e)? wasn't drinking either , she was dans DD- such a good wife you have dan !!!) I would have fed you to the wolves long ago hahahaha. Though I confess I was doing the DD thing myself. Gill is a ranting lunatic when she drinks but gotta love her other ummm how do we say it "other fine qualities"
So to top off the night here is one final pic which really speaks volumes for the how the evening went. I was trying to get a nice shot of dan and his wife chantale, Because well as you've probabbling noticed I really only have one other picture of her and dan and the rest shes strangly absent from them. Feast your eyes on this One John... you're looking really good dude. I should really send this one to your boss. I'm sure you'd never 
hear the end of it.
VOILA!!!
I odnt why I have this impression or mental image But dude you have this moby david burns tragically hip thing going on.
Any ways it was an interesting and fun night
