Blue Mountain Fun!

This past weekend, me and Shawn took a trip to Blue Mountain to celebrate our 23 months anniversary. It was such a beautiful place. I don't know why I haven't been there before. Maybe it is because it's quite far from where I live and I can't deal with long drives. Although me and my family do long road trips to Virginia, Florida, Connecticut, etc. I have this thing against going North. I would rather go South!! Well after this weekend, I will definitely do more visits up North!

I wanted to share some pictures of our trip so I hope you enjoy! I will also post a vlog video of our trip! It will be up in a few days!

The Westin Trillium House
The hotel where we stayed! Gorgeous place but could have been a lot better for the price we paid.

The view of our hotel from their backyard area. GORGEOUS!!

Amazing Fish and Chips we both shared at the cute Irish pub there! Their fries are AMAZING!

So cute! They have an outdoor chess board for people to play with!

I wish I were a kid so I can jump into that fountain to keep cool.

A view from the Open-Air Gondola that we went on. It was basically a ski lift but more enclosed.

Me and the Blue Mountain Village!!

DINNER!!!

My Filet Mignon!

Shawn's New York Striploin

Me and Shawn both shared this double stuff baked potato. It was like eating heaven!

Angry Birds candy we found at the candy shop there!

WHO WOULD BUY THESE?!?!? The purpose of mint is to freshen the breath, not make it  worse!

DESSERT TIME!

My $9 flour-less chocolate cake. It was delicious but not worth $9.

Picture of us on the dock.

Our hotel room number! Perfect because my favourite number is 4 and we were celebrating our 23 months anniversary. WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!

 I hope you all enjoyed the photos and had an amazing weekend!

1.5 Year Anniversary Weekend with Shawn

This past weekend I attended the annual Ice Wine Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake (NOTL), Ontario. I love this place! It's a great escape from the city life. I first discovered this place when I was at Brock University and have been going ever since. It's my fourth year going to the Ice Wine Festival. Here is the link to go to their website: Click here

The only event that I attend is the Ice Wine Village which is usually held on the second weekend of the festival.

Here is the description from the website of what it is:

Historic Queen Street is transformed into a winter wonderland as the entire town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, ranked the #1 Food and Wine Destination in Canada by TripAdvisor, comes together to host wine country’s annual celebration of Icewine. Icewines of the 28 Wineries of Niagara-on-the-Lake will flow alongside the sounds of Canadian Jazz. Culinary delights inspired by Icewine prepared by Signature Kitchen Chefs will tempt the palate and talented artists will transform blocks of ice into sparkling sculptures. Admission is free.

We stayed at a bed & breakfast called Brockamour Manor. I love this place!! We stayed in the room called The Loft. It's basically the attic but really amazing. It really is a "hidden treasure" (from their website). There is so much history in this house. Rick, the owner of the bed & breakfast was such a nice man. He made our stay very comfortable and relaxing as well as his wife Colleen. I highly recommend going there if you plan to spend the night in NOTL. It is also a short walk from Queen Street (the main street of NOTL) so it's in a perfect location. Not too close and not too far from the fun!

Here are some pictures of our weekend!

The food we are about to eat was Bacon Lobster Chili. I had two samples of it!

Shawn's favourite Ice Wine

Puller pork on a bun

My favourite ice wine. I got 3 glasses. 1 oz. glasses by the way!

The Brockamour Manor!! Our B&B!!


Tiara restaurant at Queen's Landing for dinner!



My hand made lobster ravioli!


Shawn's New York Striploin

Ice Wine Chili

I hope everyone enjoyed these photos!!! Have a good rest of the week!!

Happy Christmas Eve!!

Hey everyone!

I want to take the time to wish you all a very Merry Christmas to those to celebrate it!! And for those who don't enjoy your holidays and your awesome 4 day weekend to me fellow Canadians!

I am not sure what I will be doing this Christmas being that my brother is sick in the hospital as of yesterday morning. His lung has collapsed again. He previously had a surgery done for it around my birthday.

I would love it if you guys take the time to go to his channel and wish him the best of luck and get well better messages. I think it would make him really happy. He has his laptop in the hospital so he does have internet.

Here is the link to his channel!

http://www.youtube.com/user/DoTheVictor

Please sent as many messages as you want!

Today is also mine and Shawn's 5 month anniversary so we plan to go skating at Nathan Philips Square in Downtown Toronto and go the Real Sports Bar and Grill. Which is North Americas best sports bar. So I am excited. But before we go, we are going to visit my brother in the hospital.

That is all for now everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!