running on empty

i'm a last minute packer. i barely got 2.5 hrs of sleep b4 going to pearson for my 8:25a flight. "early bird gets the worm".. i'm the last person to check in and get the very back of the plane. yikes. i'm just glad that harmony has decent leg room, or i would have really died. i slept in a bunch of spurts, but basically tried to ignore reality and get as much rest as i could. tomlin picked me up from the vancouver airport and dropped me off at chrissy's.

fast foward. 7 hrs of sleep+one 12" subway chicken maranara later, i was off to yoshi's, to meet up with a bunch of delta ppl in van. amy picked me up (i remembered that i didn't bring my camera, and somehow still didn't bring it. oh wellz) and we walked into yoshi's... lou, tomlin, jer (tomlin's bud), fred and dave were there already drinking some sake...

here's the funny part. yoshi's was not where we were planning to be... japanese skewers was the food of choice for the nite, but we ended up at this fancy sushi place.. yikes! basically, fred's friend told him the wrong name.. so here i see fred drinking sake like a madman, jeremey double fisting beer & sake.. dave eating this deluxe green tea icecream.. lou is doing his best to stare down the waitresses & bring attn to us :P i down 2 sakes in like a couple of minutes, and haven't had a bite to eat... oh boy. i ordered this really good roll, but just as i was savouring it, fred goes "hurry up!" 4 gulps later, i'm done.

fred visas for the bill and we run outta there. like i was there maybe 10 minutes total. haha. what an experience. we ran to this other place for skewers & drank good portions of japanese beer.. good ambiance and pretty relaxing.. we keep joking how yoshi is going to come after us, yoshi wanted to kill us for humiliating his restaurant (basically the guys couldn't keep quiet about being at the wrong place/wanting to leave)... after last call (11pm) + some loitering, we went to mondo's for last call of gelato. that was pretty yum.

all in all a funny nite. i think amy thinks we're a bunch of cheap drunk weirdos :P

helen made it back late, and we did some catching up. crazy stories.

yoshi's is actually quite good. one day we'll return. if he lets us :)

pix to come.