09-24-22 Oktoberfest!
I had a solid 8 hours sleep and felt rested and ready to get my chores done. I started the pool to draining although the buyer backed out. I decided to put it on Cranbrook Bid Wars and by noon tomorrow I should have sold it. Next thing, I got a message from Rae-Anne asking if I would like to join her and the two youngest boys heading to Kimberley. I took my bottles to drop off at Beautiful Moments where they were collecting to fund a gymnastics trip, dropped my recycle in the bin behind work, stopped at Canadian Tire for latches for the two gates and dropped all my old batteries at Staples for recycling. I met her and the boys at Arby’s where she had to assist staff and Will and Sawyer were eagerly awaiting me. We all jumped in Rae’s vehicle and headed off around 1:45. Parking was hard to come by and we found out that it was Oktoberfest in the Platzl. Odd as it is still September! We puttered in and out of stores, bought a cider and wandered. It was relaxing and fun. I was super impressed with the new restaurant, The Biscuit. We didn’t eat there but we did get our passports stamped for the Ale Trail promotion going on. I have to collect 6 stamps and trade in the passport to get a really cool enamel mug. I have 4 stamps just from today. We would have got more but the OverTime was too busy. We had a good stop at Grist & Mash Brewery for a flight and a pretzel. We stopped at the skate park and let Will and Sawyer ride around on their bikes. That park is so nice, no graffiti at all. Nice to see for sure. We stopped at the park in Cranbrook as well and ran in to Jonas, their student and one of her employees who called in sick. Oops, she busted him. We dropped the kids at home and just she and I went to the Blind Pig. We had a great visit and some good food and beverages. I felt really bad as I called my favourite server by the wrong name but it will never happen again. I got all twisted up over another conversation and pulled the wrong one out of my hat. We went for a walk around downtown for a bit before I dropped her off and came home. It was such a good day!
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