June to early July

I'd say it's pretty obvious that I haven't kept up with this blog particularly well! A LOT has happened between last May and now, so I will attempt to recap the months gradually. Bear with me!

From June 11th to 18th, we were lucky enough to have Darby and Stephen up for a visit. Even though they had just moved into the new house they're renting, and had just finished attending a long music festival, they drove all the way up here to see us! The weather was fantastic, so we tried to get them outside to see as much of the city as possible while they were here. Although we had to start in the metro, we did get to ride bikes, visit the market, and have a picnic out in the sunshine at Parc Lafontaine with Callie.









Of course we made them walk to the top of Mt. Royal for "the view," but the weather that day was increasingly ominous. After a quick look around, we hightailed it down the mountain and were lucky enough to catch a bus home just as the downpour began!





Darby and Stephen were also here on David's birthday, and they spent hours making this incredible German chocolate cake. It had many layers and toppings and was really just phenomenal. (I hear they made this cake again for Dad's birthday, and I'm sure he enjoyed it as much as we did.) After cake David opened his mountain of presents, and good times were had by all. (:







We were sad to see them go, but so grateful they were able to make it up at all! It was a fun week. The weekend after, some of our friends hosted a birthday party for David. Highlights included sangria, beer pong, landmines, and Rock Band! We had a lot of fun.



On June 25th (a few days later) David and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary. I was getting over some bug, and neither of us was feeling super high energy, so we stayed in. David did get me a bouquet of roses though! For dinner we made sub sandwiches together, in honor of the Jimmy John's subs that we had delivered late-night after our wedding in 2006. We figured since they don't deliver to Canada, we might as well make our own subs. And they were delicious of course!



In early July, we decided to host a "How to Host a Mystery" party - Star Trek edition! So on the 4th of July, six of our friends came over dressed in costumes, we ate the closest approximations of "Star Trek food and drink" that we could come up with, and we played the mystery game that was made sometime in the 90s! It was a bit slow for our tastes, but we had fun dressing up and drinking romulan ale.



About a week after that party, we packed up and went to Europe for our summer vacation, but I will save that for the next post!