Canada Cup of Beer !

Deciding not to embark upon arming up the new gaff with essentials such as pots, pans, plates, cutlery and other such boring inanimate objects and of course being known to have no legendary resolve what so ever at turning down events of an unhealthy nature my rubber arm played into fine effect again when asked if I cared to attend a beer tasting event - Canadian style !

So after depositing a further set of bags into Stigs dump 2 on the north shore I headed off to meet Russ and a few boys out at Thunderbird Stadium in the grounds of UBC.

Armed with a beer mug that held all of a 1/4 of a pint if you were lucky our initial concern that this would provide to be a slow afternoon was swiftly disregarded once we entered the field of play and were advised that thirty individual brewers were show casing their products ! Hubba Hubba !

Comencing with such house hold famous beers and favourites such as the 'Dead Frog brewing Corporation' and 'Red Truck Ale' we set about the mission of seeing off all thirty tents before time was called at 7pm. We being aussie Leigh and the real bona fide Canadian, Adam (they are actually quite rare out here)

With the team growing by one at five with the late arrival of Jo on a 24 hour hit in Vancouver (with a poor excuse that BA 085 was held up by headwinds) the pace was picked up when we realised that in order to use the pocket full of tickets we had remaining in the time left to us, a forty five minute game of next would be needed !

Oooooh dear !

As you would imagine it all gets a bit messy from here on in ! Suffice it to say I am eternally grateful to Oleg (you little russion beauty you in your vw polo where ever you are) for providing us a lift home when all buses seemed to have disappeared off the face of the planet and as for the next picture...

Sorry, I can offer no valid reason for why this picture is on my camera, nor can I remember why a random Karate Kid waiter in a sushi bar was giving me short hand chops to the gut !

Probably not the best idea to come up with armed with a belly full of beer and raw fish but it no doubt seemed like a good idea at the time !

What a UDI combo ! Sore head from thirty random beers and sore gut thanks to Mr Myagi's karate lessions to Vancouver waiting staff !

I would go back and offer him round two but I can't remember where the place was ......

Sorry Mom, yes I will be carefull next time........