Everything is a Photo Opportunity #10

Somehow this photo was taken five years ago. Somehow this precious little baby is now five years old. How did this happen!?! This is my niece Liz and she is pretty amazing. This is a photo of her wondering what the hell just happened, as she is only about three hours old. Now she is five. I don't remember five years passing. And I especially don't remember being five years older. Maybe there is some sort of time distortion thing happening. I will look into it.

However it may have happened, I'm wishing this sweet little girl a wonderful 5th birthday!

Tuscan Portobello Burger #FoodPornFriday

I don't eat out that often anymore, but food like this makes me wish I did. I was running errands in Barrie on Monday which ended with Mom and I spontaneously going to Applebee's. We must go there more often than I think, as I earned a free meal on my frequent diners card. Win! I was going to get something expensive for my free meal, but I saw the picture of the Tuscan Portobello Burger and had to have it. I love the flavour of the burgers at Applebee's, and this one was topped with giant pieces of portobello mushrooms, swiss cheese, bacon bits, sundried tomato mayo, and (my favourite) onion strings.

Perhaps I will have to fill a new frequent diners card with more of these!

This post is part of Big Dude Likes Food #FoodPornFriday link up. Feel free to head on over to his blog and link up an awesome food post!

And Your Little Dog Too

There is a Chihuahua in my house!

John's sister is getting married on Saturday, so she and her bride to be flew in from Vancouver on Monday night with their dog Alex. They've rented a cottage and are getting it set up for the wedding, and they left this little guy to run around our house. John just loves him.

Alex is a great little dog. He is so quiet and easy going. He is also smaller than Gary, which is pretty adorable to witness. Speaking of which, this is the look Gary gave when Alex came into her space:

"Are you guys serious??" Don't worry Gary, it's just for a few days. Alex and Gary have met before and she is actually really easy going around him. She's not scared or territorial, mostly just curious about who is running around trying to eat her food.

I think they are going to be good buddies.

Number Nerd Odometer

Numbers are pretty cool. I like when they line up in fun ways, like when the time is 12:34pm or the date is 11/12/13. It's fun. I knew I had a string of numbers coming up on my odometer, and with a trip to Barrie yesterday, I knew it was going to happen. I was ready with my camera and a mental note of how many KM I had left before I hit it.

I had about 19 km to go when I left Mom's last night. I Google mapped where that would put me on my drive home, and kept my eye on the odometer. About 2 km from the number string, I turned down a side road and drove out of the way for a klick, feeling far more comfortable taking pictures on a lightly traveled side road than on the main highway. If you were driving around Fergusonvale last night, I was the one on the side of the road taking photos of her dashboard.

Here it my Number Nerd string in all it's glory:

I learned about Number Nerd being a thing from Anne Wheaton, so obviously I had to tweet her my photo. The following is her response, which I love forever.

Isn't life fun?

Cold Stone Creamery #FoodPornFriday

It's Saturday, but I'm linking up to Big Dude Likes Food's #FoodPornFriday link up, so let's not worry about what day it is and just enjoy the photo, okay? :p

Back in October, I went to Cold Stone Creamery three times. In Canada you can find them in certain Tim Hortons restaurants, and my frequent visits were because of an awesome coupon deal they had going. Buy a regular sized ice cream and pay for the small size. So the amazing looking ice cream in this photo was only $3.36 (and that includes the extra $0.50 I paid to get a waffle bowl).

If you have never been to a Cold Stone or Marble Slab type ice cream place, they have really fresh ice cream and they mix whatever ingredients you want into it. I went to the one in Wasaga Beach and they make the ice cream right in the back. The Wasaga Beach Cold Stone is in a 24 hour Tim Hortons, so if I wanted crazy ice cream at 3:00am, that is totally where I would go.

If memory serves the ice cream pictured is the All Lovin' No Oven flavour, which is Cake Batter ice cream, pieces of cookie dough, whipped topping, and fudge. I got it served in the pink waffle bowl, obviously.