Niagara Peep Meet, Part 1

I didn't know what to wear. I settled on a spaghetti-strap tank top and lace-up coal grey pants. I put on earrings and a necklace. DH looked me up and down.

"What? Do I look like a tart? I don't want to look like a tart, I just don't want to look like a housewife."

He laughed at me and said I looked fine.

I left at 7:00. First, I checked the Ministry of Transportation traffic cameras and saw a hideous disaster waiting for me. I found out later, there had been a nasty collision. Traffic was backed up maybe 20 miles. (Um, 100kph for 20 minutes, 100 = about 60 mph, 20 minutes...OK, yeah.) What the cameras couldn't tell me is that the backup was in the Toronto-bound lanes. Woo! I mean, um, that's too bad for the people in the collision, obviously, but it meant that the only driving difficulty was finding the stupid casino. I guess it's that big building with those huge letters on it...C...A...S...I...N...O. Yeah, that'd be it.

I was almost the last person to arrive. I thought I was doing pretty well for time, actually. It was only about 10 after 8 and we were supposed to meet at 8:00. But when I walked out of the Galleria thingie and onto the sidewalk, I saw a group of people who were surely the ones I was looking for.

Clearly, the tall redheaded man was Jimbo. I recognised weltek and Nolay, but MaroonClown, byoffer and Meemo had to introduce themselves. MCatt and mystic were over by a fountain having a smoke. MCatt looks just like her pictures. (I'm not making the leg up in the air reference and you can't make me.) Mr. MaroonClown, Mr. mystic, Mrs byoffer and Babybyoffer were there too. We headed across the street to a nice outdoor restaurant. BabyBy is a total cutie. There was a live music act (excellent, but very loud - made conversation difficult) at the little restaurant and he danced right along to the songs. Friendly and happy.

Northernlights and DusterBoy joined us later at the restaurant. I had an $8 daquiri. Good grief.

We had a nice time at the restaurant, but like I said - loud music. I tried to wander around the table and chat where possible. I yelled with weltek and Nolay and lights and MClown and was about to yell with MCatt, but then the food came, so I let her eat in peace. :-)

After that, byoffer and Meemo went on a beer run while the rest of us went to MCatt's room to watch the Friday night fireworks. Of course, the hitch was that you couldn't see the fireworks from the room, though there was a spectacular view of the Falls. So we opened the window a bit and listened to the fireworks and watched the flashes of light that you could see, kinda. *snort*

Fun Moments:

"Nice pink phone."

Why gay penguins can be likened to teaching Grade 2.

Surprise non-attendee!

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I was lucky enough to be able to chat for a time with everyone, but it wasn't enough! What a great group of people. We all shook hands at the beginning, but hugged goodbye.

Tomorrow...well, I guess today, actually...good grief, it's 2 am...we are going to meet for breakfast (well, not us, we'll eat here). Silvergirl and Mr. SG and the LePews should be joining us.

Alright, fine. DH says I should get to bed if I want to be able to get up in the morning to be in NF by 10 am.

So I'll post again tomorrow. Good night!