Amanda, Madison and I attended the Edmonton Heritage Festival yesterday. It was my first time down there (and I’ve been living in Edmonton for almost 30 years!)
We took ETS Park and Ride down to the event. It was a pretty hot day, so I didn’t think it would be much fun trying to walk there from my parking spot at the Cross Cancer Institute.
It was much, much bigger than I thought it was going to be. Tons of countries and different cultures. I thought there were quite a few people there, but one of my friends informed me that the crowd was actually pretty small.
Amanda and I shared 60 tickets ($50). We tried a number of different foods — our favourites being the rice noodles and chicken from the Philippines (5 tickets) and the samosas from Uganda (3 tickets each). Our least favourite was the ginger beef from Taiwan (6 tickets).
Madison enjoyed part of my frozen chocolate banana — as expected, she quite enjoyed it. We got some pictures of her chocolate covered face and will put them up on Flickr.
The one thing that I found odd was that most of the booths had little to no signage with respect to their food menus, in stark contrast to the Taste of Edmonton. It was very hard to know what each place was serving.
Overall it was a lot of fun. Comparing it head to head with the Taste of Edmonton, I think I’d choose the Taste of Edmonton due to the ease of getting there and the larger portion sizes for the same $$$ at the Taste of Edmonton (and Lingnan Hot and Spicy Chicken!).
Wow, it’s been well over a month since I posted anything on here.
It’s been a pretty busy summer. We are doing some work around the house, including tearing out our front lawn and replacing it with brand new sod. We also cut down all of our trees and ripped out the bushes and replaced them with a new apple tree and some new shrubs.
Madison is getting bigger everyday. She seems to do something new everyday. It’s pretty fun to watch her grow up so quick.
Amanda has ventured into iPhone land — we ordered one for her today, but it doesn’t look like it will be arriving anytime soon! We are going the no contract route — should be interesting to see how it all works out.
I’ve switched hosting companies, moving from iPower to Dreamhost. I think there’s a noticeable improvement in the speed of both this site and OSCEnotes.com.
Madison picked up her first cold and ear infection this week. Poor little thing can’t breathe out of her nose. Hopefully she’ll make a quick recovery.
My wife, Amanda, and I are launching a new blog dedicated to our daughter, Madison, and her eye issues. If you are interested in learning more about it, please visit the new site at:
If you’re looking to book a hotel for travel before May 31, 2010, head over to Expedia.ca and get 10% off their best hotel rates booking with the voucher code ‘HOTEL10′. Your booking must be made before March 28, 2010.
Today only, book any West Jet flight to a Canadian destination using the following:
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Flight must take place by December 15, 2010.
It’s that time again — 30% off at Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy from March 18-21. You can print off the coupon here:
Here’s a coupon for 25% one regularly priced item at Chapters, good until February 14. Can also be used at Indigo, Coles, or Smithbooks.
I’ve added my Youtube videos to the blog. You can check out the gallery at:
http://www.brockdebenham.com/videos/
I’m watching these shows on TV this week:
Monday:
Heroes
How I Met Your Mother
The Big Bang Theory
Two and a Half Men
Tuesday:
American Idol
Wednesday:
Modern Family
Thursday:
The Office
Parks and Recreation
30 Rock
