Fools' tour

This Saturday we went on a wild and crazy pub crawl organized by our friend Shannon who we met while she was doing grad school at Dalhousie. She's now moved back out west, and decided that her friends hadn't been going out enough lately, so she organized a pub crawl for a group of 35-50 people she knows here. It was on Saturday night, April fool's day, so she dubbed it the Fool's Tour.

She knows some people at the Vancouver Island Brewery here in town, and they offer a deal for groups with a brewery tour and then some time in their tap room, where you can drink all you like. She pulled some strings so that we got to drink the whole time rather than dividing it between the tour and the beer. Thus, for $25 apiece we got t-shirts, as much beer as we could drink in 2.5 hours, and free cover to the following 5 bars. Not a bad deal, overall.

In addition to the t-shirts and the tour, she organized some props to get people interacting. Here you can see me wearing the "dancing queen" skirt, and Jeremi wearing the "Seargeant Stumbles" hat. As the evening went on and we found someone deserving of the prop, we were to hand it off in exchange for a drink. There were also clown hats and noses, a bib for people who spilt, and cat ears for people who were pussing out, among others. On the whole, she did quite the job. These pictures were taken fairly early in the evening before we got too drunk and forgot about the camera (which is probably for the best).

Then Sunday afternoon we headed over to a friend's place for a whiskey tasting extravaganza. We were a bit slow getting there, especially as Jer didn't make it home until 6:00 am (well, 5:00 am plus the time change), but I'm glad we made it. Our friend Steve has a collection of over 80 bottles of scotch and Irish whiskey, and he wanted to finish off 10 or so near-empty bottles to make room in his cabinet. We managed the task admirably, and he took us on a tour of his cabinet based on which were our favourites. It's very generous of him, but he really loves whiskey and likes to share his enthusiasm. I only wish we'd brought the camera to show you a picture of his whiskey cabinet. It's quite the sight.