Thank you all for coming to Brian and my Jack and Jill weekend. We both had a blast and Brian had a great time yelling (speaking loudly at people) after a few drinks lol....
Wine ToursWe had a great turnout at the winery and dinner.. way over what we had expected since I had to call the restaurant a couple times to change the number of reservation =P. At first, I was planning to head to 12 different wineries but that didn't really happened lol.. We started the tour at 3pm (which was a mistake..) we went to about 4 wineries only because most closes at 6pm boooo.. The wine at 20 bees was really good value, lol I got one for 6 bucks and Allan got a ice wine for 20 dollar! We headed to Hillebrand Winery just down the street from 20 bees... it was a much nicer winery and they had complimentary tasting of their cab franc ice wine.. it was really really good.. too bad its $ 80 for a bottle =P Thayani and I both bought a bottle of Trius Red from there after sampling it, I find that it goes down quite smooth, it almost reminded me of a wine that I had sampled from the wine and cheese show a couple years ago. yummy..... Afte that we went to Konzelman Winery and spent 20 minutes outside taking photos lol. I can't believe you can see the CN Tower from Niagara on the lake, thats CRAZY!. Shortly after we went inside, Brian realized that our
discovery pass coupon will expire at 5pm today and we have 10 left to spend on wine and food pairing, we quickly dashed out of Konzelman and went to Peller for their wine pairing since their food are usually pretty good there. We caught the last tour for Wine and food pairing and were able to try their 3 course sampling. The food was not as good as expected and service was horrible. The lady really didn't want to serve us!! After Peller, we stopped by Lailey and Reif right before their closing and bought a couple bottles but we didn't get a chance to try any wine from them since their tasting bar had closed. Note: next time go EARLY!!
CasinoSince we finished our wine tasting early, we decided to stop by the casino before dinner. Brian and I played $20 at slots and won 300 dollars!! our first win at slot machine (what a good start!!) =D After that, I make sure we promptly leave the building before we loose the 300 dollars that we won lol.
Copa Cabana Brazillian SteakhouseWe had our reservation at 8pm and were there 30 mins early, unfortunately our table weren't were so we had to wait for about 45 mins to get our seats. It was many guests' first time to
Copa Cabana, I think most of them really enjoyed it. Althought I wish the food will be a little less salty, I guess they did that on purpose so we couldn't have too much. In hindsight, it wasn't really a great idea to go there considering that I am trying to control the amt of food that I in take before the wedding. There was no control what-so-ever at Copa Cabana YIKES!
Haunted HouseEveryone was stuffed after dinner and didn't want to go back to the lodge for more food and drinks, so we decided to go to the haunted house. (also mainly because Gabe and Cam really want to drag Brian there lol!) At first, I didn't want to go in but Maggie convinced me :P It wasn't as bad as I thought. I guess cuz I was in the middle of the pack and lucked out. All in all, it was a fun experience and I can check that off my "been there, done that list"
Drinks & Slap Jack @ Great Wolf Lodge
We headed back to the lodge after for some partying/drinking. I think we drank quite a bit, we finished a bottle of Alize , 2/3 of the vodka and 1/3 or the rum, everyone just mainly drank shot. Slap Jack was a pretty fun drinking game, I think I might play that again in our house warming party =P It really punishes the drunken since you need quick response in order not to drink haha!! I think it was mission accomplished since Brian was pretty gone by the end of it (when we got a noise complaint @ 2am). You can tell when he starts yelling and demanding at people. The classic moment was when Brian dared Toney to finish off all the shots that were left by playing Rock, Paper & Scissor. He lost and just left to go to bed without finishing the drinks. hahaha....
Final activity for the weekend: Water Park
Sunday was purely waterpark, we started at around 11:30 and finished at 3pm. It was neat since I haven't gone to a waterpark for like 10 years. The last time I was on a water slide was at Miliken Rec Centre in Markham when I was in Gr. 9 I think hahaha.... Maybe next time we can try the one closer to Niagara Falls.
Thanks everyone for coming, it was a fun and eventful weekend. I need another weekend to recover from the past weekend =P
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