A busy weekend
Dec. 3rd, 2017 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinsnestI had the whole weekend off *gasp* I KNOW! That's going to be a thing of never come starting my new job. But we did fun things both Saturday and Sunday this one.
On Saturday we went to a Flyers game downtown. I got free tickets through work, the Physical Therapy company that sponsors the team has a box and all the regional reps get a turn hosting events and bringing local office staff.
It's kind of a fun escape from my reality. You pick up tickets in the VIP entrance, go up a special elevator with a person who escorts you to this fancy box. The seats were amazing, all the free food I could eat, there was beer for the drinkers and soda for the mes. We've gone to a Phillies game before, and a Philadelphia Soul game (arena football) but this was special as Rob is a HUGE Flyers fan and he was practically vibrating. Even though they lost it was really fun experience. I bought a Christmas Ornament as a momento.
TODAY I went to the Narberth Dicken's Festival with my Peeps. okay SOME of my Peeps. SOME people ditched us for "Homework" sketchy excuses *coughmandie_rw cough*
It was billed as a "family friend" event so I brought the whole family! Granted this was because 10 min before leaving Rob said "can Ellie go? and I can wear my plaid pants?!" I mean I'm not gonna argue with a well dressed man.
The party consisted of the Coccagna Family andmiss_philomena , hiraimi came but didn't dress. We were definitely the most fully dressed of the spectators...but who does this shock? We had some delicious fish and chips for lunch (okay Rob had chicken fingers as he's a very bad Brit), then picked up our tin cups to go "begging" for wooden pennies form various characters for the scavenger hunt. Mostly it was us and mobs of small children. I kept telling people "we're not too old to play dress up so I'm not too old to play. And everyone kept asking if we were characters. Can't blame them we looked awesome.
After we collected our seven pennies we cashed them in for a bronze shilling that was basically good for $5 towards anything in the festival. You could get a cheap top hat or a cup of hot cocoa. We picked a carriage ride.
Then we ran into some not LJ costumer friends, watched a snippet of a questionable Punch and Judy show and tried to eat a MASSIVE piece of baklava without a fork...THAT'S NOT A FINGER FOOD. I went into the shop and got a fork.
All in all it was a super fun, easy event. I would happily go next year. BUT with more than 5 min notice I can definitely do better than a bow on the dog. Newsboy puppy? little top hat? She actually wears costumes well so the possibilities are many...
I don't wanna go to work tomorrow.
On Saturday we went to a Flyers game downtown. I got free tickets through work, the Physical Therapy company that sponsors the team has a box and all the regional reps get a turn hosting events and bringing local office staff.
It's kind of a fun escape from my reality. You pick up tickets in the VIP entrance, go up a special elevator with a person who escorts you to this fancy box. The seats were amazing, all the free food I could eat, there was beer for the drinkers and soda for the mes. We've gone to a Phillies game before, and a Philadelphia Soul game (arena football) but this was special as Rob is a HUGE Flyers fan and he was practically vibrating. Even though they lost it was really fun experience. I bought a Christmas Ornament as a momento.
TODAY I went to the Narberth Dicken's Festival with my Peeps. okay SOME of my Peeps. SOME people ditched us for "Homework" sketchy excuses *cough
mandie_rw cough* It was billed as a "family friend" event so I brought the whole family! Granted this was because 10 min before leaving Rob said "can Ellie go? and I can wear my plaid pants?!" I mean I'm not gonna argue with a well dressed man.
The party consisted of the Coccagna Family and
miss_philomena , hiraimi came but didn't dress. We were definitely the most fully dressed of the spectators...but who does this shock? We had some delicious fish and chips for lunch (okay Rob had chicken fingers as he's a very bad Brit), then picked up our tin cups to go "begging" for wooden pennies form various characters for the scavenger hunt. Mostly it was us and mobs of small children. I kept telling people "we're not too old to play dress up so I'm not too old to play. And everyone kept asking if we were characters. Can't blame them we looked awesome.After we collected our seven pennies we cashed them in for a bronze shilling that was basically good for $5 towards anything in the festival. You could get a cheap top hat or a cup of hot cocoa. We picked a carriage ride.
Then we ran into some not LJ costumer friends, watched a snippet of a questionable Punch and Judy show and tried to eat a MASSIVE piece of baklava without a fork...THAT'S NOT A FINGER FOOD. I went into the shop and got a fork.
All in all it was a super fun, easy event. I would happily go next year. BUT with more than 5 min notice I can definitely do better than a bow on the dog. Newsboy puppy? little top hat? She actually wears costumes well so the possibilities are many...
I don't wanna go to work tomorrow.
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Date: 2017-12-04 07:34 am (UTC)/Eva
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Date: 2017-12-04 12:57 pm (UTC)Ohhhh dog costumes. Chimney sweep? Lord Mayor of London? The possibilities!
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Date: 2017-12-04 01:45 pm (UTC)Sunday sounds like it was fun too :3 i adore the plaid pants, they are delightful.
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Date: 2017-12-04 03:31 pm (UTC)Dickens looks like a lot of fun! I love all your accessories!
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Date: 2017-12-05 02:23 am (UTC)And thanks on the accessories I've been trying to really pay attention to those as I normally flake and never quite get the whole look right.
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