Peep Meet: Niagara Pt. 2

Saturday & Sunday...
Or where good peeps go bad
*******A few more pics are posted then blogger started being mean AGAIN & not letting me upload. So have some Tintern....English white cheddar cheese with shallots & revisit later for MORE pics*****

I'm young, I'm lazy. It was vacation. That's why I opted out of breakfast over on the Canadian side with peeps. I knew we'd catch up later. So while Meemo, the Mystics, the Le Pews, the Lights, Seana family and the Byoffers (I think that was it?) had breakfast, we were just rolling out of bed.

Chris and I got up & walked around the State Park across the street from our hotel. Had some great views of the American Falls & Rapids. Learned a little Niagara Falls history.

Next, it was off to Buffalo while the breakfast crew headed to the zoo. The Maroonclows also went to Buffalo, but on a seperate mission. She wanted shoes for THE dress. We wanted wings. We went to the Anchor Bar & Grill, home of the original Buffalo wing.

We also wanted a weck, which Buffalo is famous for. What's a weck? It's a roast beef sandwich on a kimmelweck roll (a uniquely textured roll with salt & caraway on top). The wings were average, but the weck was outstanding. Looks like it would be a fun bar to hang out at. A pitcher of beer, some fried veggies, about 12 wings & a weck later (all shared), we walked out completely & utterly full. Buffalo was interesting. Had some nice areas & some more industrial areas. Lots of little colleges scattered around.

Next is was off to find some brew in St. Catherines. Well, Chris failed to write down the name of the place we wanted to check out & due to a festival downtown, we failed on our mission. So we called to see what everyone else was up to. The Lightsies were heading back to their hotel to grab a drink & dress for dinner. We had brought along dinner clothes & needed to change too. So we headed to their hotel & relaxed for a bit. I learned Mr. Lights is crafty & our Lights is the keeper of the lawn mower. Mr. Lights has a job to do: Make Lights a cupholder for her lawnmower. Why does she need a cupholder? This woman is a fool for Southern Comfort & Cokes. So much so that she has a "travel pack" of SoCo. She has little mini liquor bottles that she refills with SoCo & puts them in a Ziploc bag. She was pleased that we were bringing a cooler & she could pack those in for our late night drinking in the Sweet Suite (Catt's room).

We packed up for the evening into our truck (where we again heard Mr. Lights complain about the Zoom Zoom rental car). We parked in the Casino where it was free with a Player's Club Card. This meant we had to roam the Casino. I went in & signed up for the card while the gentleman asked me about Chocolate Cheese from Wisconsin. Apparently he hasn't visited my blog....or HAS he? I also exchanged REAL money for that silly Canadian Monopoly money. :-) The casino looked fun, but it's not really my thing. Then Chris wanted to buy some um, fine Canadian (or some other "C" place) cigars so we shopped for that in the casino complex.

Next up was Cafe Tu Tu Tango. What a neat place! It's upstairs from Wolfgang Puck's (which I never went to....boo hiss). There is art covering every wall, made by local artisans. It's all for sale, so they encourage you to wander throughout your evening. The menu was tapas style & had some great items. More importantly, you want to hear about peeps.

Waiting for us (we thought WE were early) was cq & babycq! I immediately recognized them once our area was pointed out. Beautiful ladies! Cq was quieter than I expected, but soon found out she just has a quiet voice. We had no problem making conversation, especially with the ADORABLE babycq there! The Maroonclowns, The Meemos & The Le Pews then all arrived at about the same time. Unfortunately, The Meemos & LePews were behind us & we didn't get to chat much. What beautiful people, though! Pene is gorgeous, Pepe seems to have a ton of energy (and is quite handsome himself) and the kids are very outgoing! Mrs. Meemo & baby Meemo have the same beautiful hair & smiles. Wish I'd have made the effort to talk to them a little bit. I was just too wrapped up in our crazy table! Jimbo, Catt, The Mystics, and the Byoffers then arrived. Mystic was busy playing with the kiddos (she has a great knack for that) & I'm not too sure what everyone else was up to. We got a call from Silvergirl who was with her family & looking for the restaurant. After about 15 minutes of direction guiding, Meemo & Chris got her there. She brought starfish shaped chocolates for everyone! How sweet!

Oh, and Seana & family made a quick appearance at dinner just to say hello. They'd had a long, long day & were pooped. So she proved to DH that everyone wasn't imaginary, nor axe murderers, so mission accomplished.

Babybyoffer was wearing his special shirt, made just for this occassion
The Maroonclowns drink like fish (go figure

The LePews

Baby cq apparently always gets freaky eyes when the red light comes on cameras. *giggle* I love this pic

The LePews, Mrs. & Baby Meemo and Seana's family had to leave just as we were done with dinner. It has been a long day for all the kiddos. Byoffer told baby byoffer to suck it up & press on. I kid, I kid. As the rest of us stood on the street, we realized we TOTALLY messed up by not getting a group shot in the restaurant. *Doh!* So those of us that were left found a spot & some nice waitresses on a smoke break to take our picture:

Meemo, Jimbo, Catt and the Maroonclowns & The Mysics went to play at the Casino. The rest of us went for a stroll along the falls. It was a gorgeous night for it. Some random pics:


The Silvergirl family needed to get back to camp, so we said goodbye. Not before I decided Mr. Silvergirl looked like a politican & should run for office. He was a very nice guy & put up with my idiocy (or was it the half gallon of sangria I drank at dinner?) We met back up with the casino peeps & headed back to the Sweet Suite for some drinking & debauchery. Dragonflies had sent candles for everyone so we gave her a call to say "thank you"! Wasn't that sweet? We tried calling some other peeps, but nobody wanted to talk to us. Snobs. We'd brought a cooler of Wisconsin brewed beers for the gang, so Chris had fun being the beer bitch. We also brought leftover wings from The Anchor, so Jimbo was able to enjoy those. We realized Maroonclown had this uncontrollable laugh where she looks like she's going to need CPR eventually. And Catt? A total snorter! Jimbo has a cute giggle.

At the end of the night, we realized a bed "leg" photo was in high order. I don't have pics of that, but if you keep your eyes open, you can find them on blogland or OT. :-)

The next morning, we met up with Catt & Jimbo to take them to the airport, as Buffalo was on our route home. Well, it wouldn't be a stop in Canada without trying some Tim Horton's coffee, so we made a point of finding one on our way out. The line was crazy long & the staff not to sharp. But let me tell ya, that's some good effing coffee. Pastries? Meh. Did you know they served sammiches at Tim Horton's? I did not realize. I decided for anyone that hasn't been there, Tim's is much like a Dunkin' Donuts, with lunch. Oh, and what is this crazy "hot smoothie" thing they serve there? Crazy Canucks.

I was very sad as we left the final peeps we saw at the airport. The weekend was officially over. *sniff* I can't WAIT for Peep Meet '07. I SO hope to meet more of the clan!