Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

First, thanks to Angela for these photos (photo credit goes to her). BTW, point of trivia about her for you people who've been eyeing taking her on in fight club — she has a Tae Kwon Do black belt, so watch out!

I haven't posted any pix yet, so I thought I'd show these two shots that incidentally at least show the Toronto BME offices. Including the lofts, it's a nearly 3000 square foot space that will soon house BME and PsyberCity's main development centre, as well as being used to build my next car prototypes.		My best Orange County-esque Jack Black impression. Is it just me or do I look like I've just walked out of a cave? (PS. Jack Black, n*Sync, Shannon Elizabeth, and a number of other celebrities are all in the scrapbook)

Anyway, I know I should write a little more about Saturday (others have done it as well). We got to the space at about 1 PM I think, but because the bathroom isn't installed yet we headed across the street to Piri Piri, a Portuguese grill house. The food seemed really good, but for us vegans there was literally nothing on the menu. Just the house salad I think, although they were kind enough to try and make some dishes to feed us.

I think about a dozen and a half people were at the ID party, which did eventually migrate over to the office where drinks were mixed and I sat up on the roof of the office (well, the unfinished loft) with Ryan and Marc talking about flying… Both Marc and I are well into our pilot's training, and Ryan wants to start, so hopefully this winter and next summer we'll finish that (I've got lots of flight hours, but am behind on my ground school).

Then we headed over to the bowling alley (I was actually a tiny bit late because we had to run an errand first, but luckily Rachel had driven separately and was there in time). I think around 35 people bowled with about another 15 on the sidelines. I have to say that our scores were, on the whole, literally HALF what I saw of the scores at the Philly bowling event… Very embarassing!

Anyway, then Jack's friends took over the first lane, chucked all the balls down the alley and broke the machinery, and then started throwing chairs and got thrown out — luckily the alley didn't hold it against us (or try and charge me for it) so it blew over without issues. Once things started wrapping up I was pretty tired (I'm on Tweed time, which means I get up very early, but go to bed early too) and headed back to crash.

I think about half of the people (dunno, I wasn't there) headed down to Sneaky Dees and stayed till closing… And Rob still hasn't returned from the party, so I guess that means it's still going good somewhere (Although I'm not looking forward to explaining it to his mother, so please come back soon Rob!)

In any case, I had an awesome time and it was really nice seeing everyone again (not that it's been long, but I still always look forward to it).

PS. Can't wait to see everyone's pictures, as well as the pictures from all the other BBQs that happened this weekend. There sure was a lot going on!!!