Gord and I went to Monica and Mark's for supper tonight. They were our next door neighbours and moved a couple years ago (about a 15 minute drive away) .
Here's Mon (holding Chia Kitty ... yes, Chia tagged along) and I ...
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Settling in for supper, which was delicious!
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Beef ribs (they had been in the slow cooker all day), mashed potatoes, salad and broccoli ...
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Dessert was a fruit crumble with fresh gelato. Yum!
Here's Mark and Mon ... aren't they cute?!
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Mon played us a tune ... Chia enjoyed it too.
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You know how much Gord loves beer! So does Mark! Mark's dad is German so Gord brought six German beer each for them so they could have a beer tasting (Gord blogged about it
here).
Here they are having their first beer ...
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And here they are having their sixth (and last) beer ...
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Mission accomplished!
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Since I'm "on track", my drink for the night was a 1.5 litre bottle of water.
It was fun to hang with them as I hadn't seen Mon since
April.