Apple Butter, Whipped Cream, and Frisbees
Last night I went out for dinner with a bunch of church friends to celebrate my buddy James' birthday. We went to a restaurant called Montana's which is basically a stake house. They had them in Ottawa when I lived there, but I couldn't remember if I had gone to one or not. I'm pretty sure I had applied to work at one that was just opening in Ottawa. But upon sitting at my table it all seemed familiar.
There were nine of us and we had plenty of fun conversation, but mostly we watched the TV's which were set to the Extreme Sports channel. Talk about crazy stuff. There was a lot of "I used to do that all the time" kinda jokes. The show that we saw mostly involved kids on bikes doing crazy jumps and stunts. We were mostly watching the show for the awfully painful looking bloopers.
Well, the rumors that I heard about on the webboard are true. There really is something called Apple Butter. I'm still not sure what exactly is in the stuff. I know one part is apple jelly, but what else is in it? Anywho, I thought it was something made up until I ordered hickory smoked rib tips done in an apple butter BBQ sauce with fries and coleslaw last night. Wow was that ever delicious. I know what I'll be getting the next time I go there. I'm salivating right now as I think about it. Heh heh.
Because it was James' B-day we made sure all the waiters knew about it, despite James' protests. They put newsprint on the tables and provide crayons so you can draw. So a few of us made big messages for the waiters to see announcing it was James' B-day. Heh heh. Too fun. So once we were done our main course, all the waiters came around, plopped a hat on James' head with huge horns and started to "serenade" him. All of a sudden, one of our guys shoved a large paper plate full of whipped cream into James' face. None of us at our end of the table saw it coming - especially not James. He got it full in the face. In his eyes, mouth, and nose. And the first person who James tries to blame? His wife. All she did was give permission for the guy to cream James... and of course move out of the way as the creaming was delivered. Good times. :D
Afterwards we went to Ron's place for cake and some of us played Ultimate Frisbee in the dwindling sunlight. It was fun, but man were we out of shape. There was a lot of huffing and puffing and clutching of chests as most of us hadn't gotten our hearts pumping that much in a long time. I guess sitting in front of the computer all the time is getting to us. I used to be good at tossing a frisbee around. Some of us used to spend our spares in high school doing just that. But I'm definitely out of practice. I almost made a sweet diving catch, but I missed.
Tomorrow (Saturday) a few of us guys are going to haul our computers into the church basement again to have another LAN party. We're all pretty psyched about it. It was a lot of fun last time so we're hoping for much of the same. The core group of four of us are definitely going to be there, but we could have at least four more. They are all still maybes. Either way we'll have a blast. Last time we were at the church from about 10 to 10, by the time we finished watching Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow and packed everything up. So we might do the same thing again. Hooray for computer geek fun! :D
Matthew.
There were nine of us and we had plenty of fun conversation, but mostly we watched the TV's which were set to the Extreme Sports channel. Talk about crazy stuff. There was a lot of "I used to do that all the time" kinda jokes. The show that we saw mostly involved kids on bikes doing crazy jumps and stunts. We were mostly watching the show for the awfully painful looking bloopers.
Well, the rumors that I heard about on the webboard are true. There really is something called Apple Butter. I'm still not sure what exactly is in the stuff. I know one part is apple jelly, but what else is in it? Anywho, I thought it was something made up until I ordered hickory smoked rib tips done in an apple butter BBQ sauce with fries and coleslaw last night. Wow was that ever delicious. I know what I'll be getting the next time I go there. I'm salivating right now as I think about it. Heh heh.
Because it was James' B-day we made sure all the waiters knew about it, despite James' protests. They put newsprint on the tables and provide crayons so you can draw. So a few of us made big messages for the waiters to see announcing it was James' B-day. Heh heh. Too fun. So once we were done our main course, all the waiters came around, plopped a hat on James' head with huge horns and started to "serenade" him. All of a sudden, one of our guys shoved a large paper plate full of whipped cream into James' face. None of us at our end of the table saw it coming - especially not James. He got it full in the face. In his eyes, mouth, and nose. And the first person who James tries to blame? His wife. All she did was give permission for the guy to cream James... and of course move out of the way as the creaming was delivered. Good times. :D
Afterwards we went to Ron's place for cake and some of us played Ultimate Frisbee in the dwindling sunlight. It was fun, but man were we out of shape. There was a lot of huffing and puffing and clutching of chests as most of us hadn't gotten our hearts pumping that much in a long time. I guess sitting in front of the computer all the time is getting to us. I used to be good at tossing a frisbee around. Some of us used to spend our spares in high school doing just that. But I'm definitely out of practice. I almost made a sweet diving catch, but I missed.
Tomorrow (Saturday) a few of us guys are going to haul our computers into the church basement again to have another LAN party. We're all pretty psyched about it. It was a lot of fun last time so we're hoping for much of the same. The core group of four of us are definitely going to be there, but we could have at least four more. They are all still maybes. Either way we'll have a blast. Last time we were at the church from about 10 to 10, by the time we finished watching Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow and packed everything up. So we might do the same thing again. Hooray for computer geek fun! :D
Matthew.
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