The Bachelorette Party
Taken from an email sent to London, but it'll work here as an update as well. Forgive the references about Toronto that you already know very well!
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Arrived home late Thursday night and was amazed at how NOT jet-lagged I was for the most part. Made it up to Toronto Saturday morning (with a screaming baby sitting right behind me on the bus -- imagine my face) and then proceeded to get lost. It wasn't my fault...Kendra had given me the wrong number for her new house so I got up to Yonge and Davisville and then it took me a while to find Lianna's car sitting outside the place and then the girls couldn't hear me b/c they had the stereo turned up so loud, so I had to call Kingston, get my dad to grab their phone numbers off my old cell phone (this was the longest part of the situation) and then call them on the *new* cell phone in my pocket and yell at them to open the damn door because it was sunny and hot and I hadn't put on any sunblock that day.
Right.
So, the bachelorette party was really really fun. Mabel (the bride-to-be) was one of my five dear roommates in second year. There were many stories about our old place, East "Beast" House floating around that night. Kendra, Lianna and Andrea had put on quite the spread. There was smoked salmon and cream cheese, hummus, spring rolls, Ace Bakery baguettes, fruit, veggies, brownies, butter tarts and vodka punch. And then all the other girls, including Mabel, showed up an hour late. Kendra was ready to kill them all.
We all got t-shirts saying "Team Mabel" on the front and wore them all night. When we first put them on, there was quite a bit of preening going on in the mirrors. The conversation went as follows:
Kendra: These are so cool!
Lianna: Very sexy cool!
Andrea: Very sport, sexy cool!
Jane: Yes, we in no way resemble a woman's soft-ball team.
*Jane gets smacked with a hair-brush*
We ended up going to Gabby's (my old haunt from undergrad days), the Maddy (a pub built out of three houses) and Montana (a bar with many different rooms, one of which was the retro room of 70s, 80s and 90s music and which I never left). We drank, we danced, we drank A LOT of water, we drank some more, we made Mabel perform all kinds of tasks (my favourite was when she had to go up to a married man and ask "how to keep married life hot"). Afterwards, near 1:30am, we went for pizza and then proceeded to get locked in the pizza parlour since it was closing. They let us out the backdoor, which put us smack in the middle of Crackville, Ontario. Ew. We ran out of that alley rather quickly.
Of course, during all of this, my jetlag finally hit. I was having cokes and coffee ordered for me by 9pm, but I rallied and then couldn't fall asleep for the rest of the night. Trooper that I am, I got up, got dressed, got out of Kendra's place and down to the bus station to catch the 9:30am back to Ktown.
It was a great night -- easily the most fun I've had with my Toronto Girls since undergrad days. I think the wedding (in less than two weeks! aaah!) will be even better. And Kendra felt very victorious about our clothing when we got whistled at on the street.
Kendra: See! *smacks Jane on the arm* I TOLD you we looked hot.
Jane: Yeah. He didn't even ask us if we won the game.
*Jane has to run into oncoming traffic on Bloor Street to avoid being beaten with an inch of her life*
So, there was "Toronto Adventure -- Part 1". We'll see how "Part Two" gets along...and for that one Simon is a witness!
Will send more news as it happens. Right now it's over 40C with the Humidex reading, so I'm trying not to move. Did I say that I was leaving the London Heatwave for colder temperatures??? I was lying.
*****
Arrived home late Thursday night and was amazed at how NOT jet-lagged I was for the most part. Made it up to Toronto Saturday morning (with a screaming baby sitting right behind me on the bus -- imagine my face) and then proceeded to get lost. It wasn't my fault...Kendra had given me the wrong number for her new house so I got up to Yonge and Davisville and then it took me a while to find Lianna's car sitting outside the place and then the girls couldn't hear me b/c they had the stereo turned up so loud, so I had to call Kingston, get my dad to grab their phone numbers off my old cell phone (this was the longest part of the situation) and then call them on the *new* cell phone in my pocket and yell at them to open the damn door because it was sunny and hot and I hadn't put on any sunblock that day.
Right.
So, the bachelorette party was really really fun. Mabel (the bride-to-be) was one of my five dear roommates in second year. There were many stories about our old place, East "Beast" House floating around that night. Kendra, Lianna and Andrea had put on quite the spread. There was smoked salmon and cream cheese, hummus, spring rolls, Ace Bakery baguettes, fruit, veggies, brownies, butter tarts and vodka punch. And then all the other girls, including Mabel, showed up an hour late. Kendra was ready to kill them all.
We all got t-shirts saying "Team Mabel" on the front and wore them all night. When we first put them on, there was quite a bit of preening going on in the mirrors. The conversation went as follows:
Kendra: These are so cool!
Lianna: Very sexy cool!
Andrea: Very sport, sexy cool!
Jane: Yes, we in no way resemble a woman's soft-ball team.
*Jane gets smacked with a hair-brush*
We ended up going to Gabby's (my old haunt from undergrad days), the Maddy (a pub built out of three houses) and Montana (a bar with many different rooms, one of which was the retro room of 70s, 80s and 90s music and which I never left). We drank, we danced, we drank A LOT of water, we drank some more, we made Mabel perform all kinds of tasks (my favourite was when she had to go up to a married man and ask "how to keep married life hot"). Afterwards, near 1:30am, we went for pizza and then proceeded to get locked in the pizza parlour since it was closing. They let us out the backdoor, which put us smack in the middle of Crackville, Ontario. Ew. We ran out of that alley rather quickly.
Of course, during all of this, my jetlag finally hit. I was having cokes and coffee ordered for me by 9pm, but I rallied and then couldn't fall asleep for the rest of the night. Trooper that I am, I got up, got dressed, got out of Kendra's place and down to the bus station to catch the 9:30am back to Ktown.
It was a great night -- easily the most fun I've had with my Toronto Girls since undergrad days. I think the wedding (in less than two weeks! aaah!) will be even better. And Kendra felt very victorious about our clothing when we got whistled at on the street.
Kendra: See! *smacks Jane on the arm* I TOLD you we looked hot.
Jane: Yeah. He didn't even ask us if we won the game.
*Jane has to run into oncoming traffic on Bloor Street to avoid being beaten with an inch of her life*
So, there was "Toronto Adventure -- Part 1". We'll see how "Part Two" gets along...and for that one Simon is a witness!
Will send more news as it happens. Right now it's over 40C with the Humidex reading, so I'm trying not to move. Did I say that I was leaving the London Heatwave for colder temperatures??? I was lying.