This was my score Sunday on Langara golf course, if you go by the double par maximum rule. I managed to bogey one 3-par hole, triple bogeyed another 3-par (which ended up being the only hole I beat Manh on – woohoo), and as for everything else, well let’s just not go into details. Granted, it was raining for the first five holes and the course was a sea of mud, but clearly two buckets of balls at a driving range do not a golfer make. And I’m still sore today from the equivalent of playing maybe five rounds in a single afternoon.
I was up in Vancouver over the weekend for my sister’s birthday – technically yesterday – and for tomb sweeping day – which technically is today. Rosalind (the other sister) makes the trip every year, I’ve been derelict in the last few years going to Forest Lawn to clear the weeds from the graves of my grandparents, lay flowers, and burn money and incense. As Roz pointed out, it’s a little sad that none of our other relatives ever seem to beat her to it, year after year. I underestimate her sometimes.
We celebrated Mimi’s birthday with dinner at Rubina Tandoori, which has been at the intersection of Vancouver and Kingsway for as long as I can remember. Apparently it was to close on April 1st, perhaps it’s reopened under new management? The service seemed tentative and the food was lukewarm, but it was still quite good. For dessert Rosalind presented cake frosted with chocolate ganache. Vancouver residents, and possibly other Canadians who live near Loblaws, take note: Superstore carries Callebaut chocolate in the bulk foods section – and cheap too! 1 pint of whipping cream mixed with 1 pound of this stuff (gently melted and mixed together, left in fridge overnight, mixed with spatula until spreadable) makes ganache to die for.
One benefit of living in Seattle is that you get CBC via cable quite easily. The first episode of the new Dr. Who has just been Tivoed. Ok, I just had to say that to make other geeks jealous. Of course they probably have all the episodes by BitTorrent already..
