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Prepare to drool cuz I’m finally ready to blog about Eat! Vancouver 2013!! I feel awful for taking so long. Bad timing with the move and everything.

Anyway Eat! Vancouver is a food convention held in BC Place with booths from tons and tons of companies and restaurants. Nearly every booth gives out samples of their products. There is no need to be tentative, they are super generous with the samples and often encourage you to try every single thing they have!

I took pictures of some of my very favourite things I tried…

This Albert’s Leap blue goat cheese brie was incredibly delicious and I really really regret not buying a wheel. Can someone please get me this for my birthday?? Seriously.

Pistachios are awesome. I definitely went by this booth a few times. :D

This coconut ice cream was reallllllllllllly nice. It had the texture and flavours of normal ice cream with a hit of coconut flavour as well. I loved the salted caramel and Scott loved the strawberry. This is one of the products that got added to our list of “actually want to buy in real life”. So good.

Plenty o’ chocolate samples!

This Oikos truck was giving out really big cups of Greek yogurt with a separate package of topping. You could choose any combination you want. The first day I tried fig yogurt with granola which was very tasty. The next day I got strawberry yogurt with granola and tucked it into my bag to have for breakfast later that week.

Non-artificial ginger ale! These were so spicy in the way ginger can burn. They were delicious and I got a poster with a bunch of alcoholic drink recipes that I totally want to try. I would have bought some at the convention but they weren’t selling! Now I have to track them down in Vancouver.

This booth was for a tea subscription service. The service is pretty expensive but I will definitely say the tea was great. That flapjack one smelled exactly like a pancake breakfast! Lauren and I tried the green tea tropical tea and decided it would taste awesome as a cold drink.

This year Scott and I bought a few tickets so we could try the alcohol section. This is me with a blueberry whiskey drink. Yum. I also tried Fruli (strawberry beer) and Scott tried a few different types of beer. He liked Delirium quite a bit.

I used the rest of the tickets on the chilled avocado soup from Tacofino. It was smooth and spicy and tasty.

Last year Rosemarie and I were really bummed that we missed out on all the cheese seminars. This year we set ALARMS so we wouldn’t miss it! I went once with Lauren and once with Scott! :D

The seminars are super awesome. They give you seven different types of cheeses to try and the dude walks you through tasting each one. He might get you to taste the inside of the brie before the outside, or to smell the cheese etc etc. Super fun.

PS I love cheese.

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If you don’t count the patio our new apartment is smaller than our old apartment, but if you DO count the patio it’s much bigger. We don’t mind the reduced space inside because everything is so much nicer than our old place. I took a few pictures to give you a little tour…

^ The patio is north facing and gets a lot of light in the morning. Our (teeny tiny) plants are thriving! We have no neighbours on the left side yet. Plenty of room for a tent for Rosemarie. :D Still need a BBQ.

^ The living room. We haven’t hung up any of our art yet. I’m scared to put holes into the brand new walls!!

^ Dining… area? I definitely need to clean off that table!! Oops. I think I’m going to put up those three geometric paintings I had above my desk at the old place above the table.

^ The kitchen and pantry. Note the dishwasher!! What a luxury!! We put a desk into the pantry so that if I need to study or Scott needs to do some work we can have a quiet space. We also have lots of shelves for extra food and kitchen stuff that doesn’t fit in the kitchen cupboards, as they are quite small.

^ Bathroom. I haven’t taken a bath yet but I should because the tub is super deep!

^ The bedroom. This is the biggest change from our old apartment. Bye bye big room with big walk in closet. Now the competition for closet space is tougher. I am still winning. :D

Well that’s it! Now you’ve pretty much seen the whole place except for a few cupboards, haha. We’ve been here a couple weeks now and we love it. I’m so grateful that we get to live here. I better get a job in September though otherwise we won’t be doing much else except hanging out here though…

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A week off from school/clinical a couple weeks ago meant a rare chance to do my nails. I dusted off all my water marbling supplies and had a go. It went really well actually, I didn’t mess up any of them up!

PS you can check out my water marbling tutorial HERE.

I also got my hair cut the other week for the first time in 14 months. It was getting pretty straggly and bushy. I like having long hair though so I didn’t get a huge change this time.


^BEFORE


^AFTER


Upgrade!! I like the cut. It doesn’t look quite as smooth now though because I don’t usually ever blow dry my hair. :/ Sorry so lazy.

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This is definitely not my best daily dinners posts. The last two weeks have been really really hectic and busy with moving and starting summer clinical. All my normal routines were disturbed!! So I missed a few photos here and there.

may 19th, 2013 – rotato (and other Summer Night Market treats, blog post to come soon)

I have no clue what I had for dinner on May 20th. Fail.

may 21st, 2013 – toasted submarine sandwich

More after the jump…Continue reading

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We finally have internet so I can blog again!

We’ve been REALLY busy for the last week and a half, which was a good thing because I don’t think I could survive without internet for so long if I didn’t have so much stuff to do.

Since the end of school we moved out of our old apartment and into our new place. We cleaned the old place. Went to the food convention twice. Went to Lesley’s house. Visited with Lauren. Went out for drinks. Got my hair cut. Water marbled my nails. Started my summer clinical placement.

Just this weekend I prepared and cooked a porchetta and finally unpacked the last of all our boxes. Lesley is coming over in a bit for patio drinks and Ticket To Ride. I still need to study a bit for knowledge testing tomorrow.

Sooo… lots of blog posts to come! Here are some of the pictures that didn’t fit into any of my other posts…

me on the patio the day we got our keys

when we first got everything moved into our new apartment

at church’s chicken for the first time

sunset view from the balcony

patio laptop and whiskeys

look what Scott found while cleaning the fridge at the old house!!! best surprise ever!!


I’m going to take some apartment pictures RIGHT NOW. :)