Chutes & Lattes

Sunday January 15,2014 

I went for the 1st time to Chutes & Lattes. It's a nice little cafe that you can play board games at. You pay $5 per adult or $2.50 per kid for your spot to sit and play games as long as you want essentially, you pay the $5 on your bill, not like a cover or something. They have milkshakes, sandwiches, quiches & desserts, as well as all kinds of cafe drinks, coffees & lattes. My whole table had to try out the milkshakes when we discovered they had them. I had a chocolate milkshake with the added flavor of strawberry cheesecake, very good, my only gripe with it was, I could have had more. I also had their California club sandwich, which had turkey, avocado, bacon and chipotle aioli, with a side of ceaser salad. There were no fries with the sandwiches, however the ceaser salad was really good so I didn't miss the fries at all. 

We were there for hours, when we arrived around 6 there was an hour wait, on a Sunday night. The place was packed till about 11:30 only because they close at midnight. Apparently they're going to be opening up a Chutes & Lagers where alcohol will be served, can't wait for that! There were 5 of us in my group & because I'm not a big board gamer we played games that could be easily taught, that could be played with that number. We got through about 3 different games . My favorite, which seems to be pretty universal was Cards Against Humanity, the card game for terrible people. Being a card game it allowed us to eat while still playing. Great game for sure. I'd like to play that while drinking, but knowing my friends that would just make it WAY worst than it already is! 
Chutes & Lattes is a great place to, good food, warm atmosphere, great service & the gaming aspect makes it fun for everyone, geeks, gamers, families, everyone. Can't wait to go again.

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Monster's University Movie Review

Saturday night I went out with my friends from College. It's kind of become our thing to see movies then. We were originally going to see Now You See Me, which I still intend to see at some point, but earlier in the week my brother and sister-in-law had seen Monsters University and they both liked it, so I was in conflict about which one I wanted to see. When I met up with everyone I asked if anyone wanted to see Monsters U as well and there were a lot of people wanted to see it as well.

First we had a nice dinner at Jack Astors, which has reasonably sized portions these days. Then we saw a late screening of Monsters U, which meant the theatre was nice and quite. I really enjoyed this movie for many reasons. As usual the graphics by Pixar were amazing and believable for the world that they created. They made the monsters both adorable and completely scary or creepy.  Watching the relationship of Sully and Mike evolve is believable and satisfying. The new characters are interesting and brought in in a way that you hope you will see them again, and even with the ending in Monsters Inc it is possible to bring them in there as well.

Notable characters include the Dean of the Scare School, who's bug-like legs clicking across the ground kept me creeped out whenever she moved on screen, the frats were all very well done also, each member of each house, even when they were only briefly seen seemed to fit in perfectly. I hope they do make another Monsters movie it's a fun world to visit.

I love watching the credits, mostly because there are a lot if fun names in there and I get to say 'someone actually named there kid that?' And I always like to see which departments end up in the credits, like accounting and craft services. So I sat through the credits and before the adorable end credit scene, there was a section for production babies. I don't know if these were just kids born during production or kids that were conceived and then born during production. 

All I all Disney is awesome, Pixar makes amazing movies, both visually and emotionally, and I like credits. 

Go see Monsters U!

The Green Living Show

Today I went with my mom & aunt to the Green Living Show here in Toronto. It was at the Direct Energy Centre & it was apperenlty where every school in the city had sent their kids today. When we were walking by the parking lot we spotted the busses, I didn't think they would be there, but I should know better. Other than the massive amount of young ones I smacked in the head with my bag today it was a good day. One of my favorite parts was the 'Fresh Food Market'. There were about 10 vendors with mini samples of local and organic foods that they were selling, salads, soups, & some desserts. For $10.00 you got 5 vouchers to use. My aunt got some organic coffee, myself & my mom split our food between us, we had a peanut bean sprot salad, a 'Ontario' salad, which all the differnt things in the salad were from Ontario, also we had an apple crisp with local apples & sweet potato donuts, which were my favorite. Along with the food we paid for we got a lot of samples, greek yogurt, pasta sauce, pesto, organic milk, homemade pop, bread, and more stuff than I can remember. Along with all the food there were a lot of beauty prodcuts avalible and a lot of ways to improve your house to keep your power bills down. It was a little strange to see things like Porche & Lexus right next to the people selling organic fair trade coffee. With the size of this show you can see how popular that the green movement is. The fact that there are little home grown companies right next to the big ones & both are looking for your money and the little compines are usually winning out in this kinds of places shows that there are a lot of things that the larger companies have to fix & with how scarce everyones' money is these days consumers are getting pickier & doing way more research into where they're going to spend the money. All and all a good day, so tired now.