Food and Wine Show 2017!

The tradition continues... drinking multiple glasses of wine with the family all before the supper hour! Sat Jan 21st was the show. The day started off a little unusual. I was all ready to go by around 11:15am and headed over to my Moms - Aleksy was driving us since we couldn't drive home. From there we headed over to my sisters for 11:45am - just in time to make it to the show when it opened at noon. But there was no sister at home! Sister was missing! We waited and even went to the bank and came back and then finally left for the food and wine show around noon to meet up with my Mother in law Lorraine.

We continued to get our glasses and start filling them with wine immediately - the routine. And my Mom found a make up stand with free "makeovers" & she took them up on it! She was very excited about the make up booth. They even had a photoshoot at the end.

All this happened before the sister texted or called back.

It seemed like the sitting this year was much more plentiful than other years - we landed a spot in this big sitting area a few times that day!

Here with our white and some forty creek cream (like baileys... yum!). Lorraine took our Mother-Daughter pic!

And through our wandering, I saw that the Icarus restaurant had a booth at the show and a friend who works there was working it and hooked me up with the goods - spanokopita and meatballs. Acmazingly delicious.

I'm so glad I stopped to eat this when I did too, because even though we absolutely insisted we would be better at buying food this year, we weren't. I only had this and some cheese. I came prepared having eaten breakfast this year though! The wine is so much more readily available!

And shortly after this... during a washroom break.. the call came in: 1:30pm. Steph has woken up and is getting ready to finally join us for the 12pm date! Ha!

We signed up for the first show of the day - the 2pm show at 1pm. We even asked them to save a ticket for Steph... you know in case she showed up.
Then when we got there at 2pm, there were no spots open! They overbooked! So we were lucky enough that we got 4 to the 3pm show, and Steph was able to go too.

Steph came around 2:30 and this was our 3pm wine tastings. These are sweeter wines... not our usual go-to's but good to try something different!

See... she made it!! 

And the filling of the wine glasses continued... we even switched to red for a bit at the end. This was an end of the day picture taken at 6pm just before we left. We found our favourite booth that filled the wine glasses double for the same amount of tickets too - score!

This year we noticed a few of things were different - The sister was only present for 2/3 of the time, Lorraine couldn't drink becasue of a Dr.'s orders, they didn't have the cheese tasting that they have every year (which is something we really look forward to because who doesn't love cheese with wine) and the Girls night out booth wasn't there!! Thats the fav booth - they even give us free softlips every year! Lots of differences this year!

The annual photobooth picture.

I do have to say this year I did a better job managing the wine. I stopped at 6pm, could eat lots of pizza upon my arrival home and hydrated before and after. I think Ive got this down...

Until 2018...