Thanks for the Harvests

Last weekend was a long one, thanks to Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday. We were especially grateful for all of the harvests, as we managed to squeeze in 3 dinner parties. Unfortunately we forgot to squeeze in any photos…

The first one was at the apartment of Ollie’s ex-boss from UBC and involved Pandemic – a very apt board game that involves trying to save the world from outbreaks of 4 different diseases. You’ll all be relieved to hear we successfully cured 3 of them and eradicated 1, winning the game. Perhaps the WHO should get in touch with us.

Up next on Saturday we had two Australians, who we had previously gone hiking with to Brandywine Meadows, over at Chez Rollie for the evening. We had a Roast Beast (Rosie was too lazy to hunt and kill the beans herself) and got to play some games again.

On Monday the fun continued as we went round Tom and Maria’s for a Thanksgiving with some of their friends. Everyone brought something along, we took two freshly baked sourdough loaves. The vegetarian meat alternative game was raised with a Stuffed Beast this time – our friend works for The Very Good Butchers, which is why we have so many of their products!

After all the food and drink, we have been in coma for most of the rest of the week. Ollie has recently picked up climbing and so we spent Tuesday night watching ‘Free Solo‘, a film about a climber who climbs a 900m rockwall in Yosemite National Park with no ropes. Unfortunately this did not convince Rosie to take up climbing, so Ollie will also have to climb with no rope or partner.

We hope you all have a good weekend, with an atmospheric river coming to Vancouver we will likely be inside with wine!