wine & oyster festival 2006

uuggghhhhh.... i'm writing this while nursing my hangover. hee hee

i drank SO much wine and chugged SO many oysters tonite at the BC Wine & Oyster Fest downtown. i think i set a new personal record for oysters eaten -- 24 in one sitting, just for the oyster eating contest i entered :D i didn't win but i entered just to eat the oysters!!!! YUMMMMMY~~~~~

on top of that DC and I made the rounds and probably chugged down another 26 oysters each --- 50 plus ... my personal BEST. i'm going for 80 next year.. i think i'll enter heat 1 and heat 2 of the oysters challenge next year ---- thats like 48 oysters over 2 sittings in less than 60 seconds.. hahahahahaha

i start training next week with jello shooters.

THAT WINE BASKET IS *MINE*...

on top of the oysters, i got to taste a lot of yummy wines (especially my favourite, gewurztraminer... i tried ALL of the gewurz's). i found my favourite ice wine, Apricot from Elephant Island Orchards too.

i also got a job offer to work at Joe Fortes shucking oysters!!! :D but i think i would eat more than i shuck, "one for the restaurant, one for me, two for the restaurant, 5 for me..." :p

i learned one thing about getting oysters --- LINE UPS ARE FOR SUCKERS -- just bud in and grab one -- people too sloshed to notice anyways... hahahahaah my favourites -- kushis -- but pound for pound, the easiest to get were from Mosaic of Hyatt Regency. no line-ups and DC camped out for the better part of the night until they finally ran out of oysters and had to close down. heh. i was really surprised that DC didn't eat oysters before this evening, but ive made him into a believer. in fact he's become quite a monster. DAMN, can't let him enter the competition next year :b NK and i are going to go head-to-head in 2007 fer sure. YOU'RE GOING DOWN!!!!

it was a lot of fun and i got to enjoy it with DC, NK, DH, Emi, and Diana. i can't believe we stayed til the very end and ate one of the final oysters of the fest. i think we literally had one of the last 3 oysters before they kicked us out and went bankrupt hahahhaha.

ok, actually feeling ok now -- very fun evening -- probably the most fun from all the years i've been. time to go nighty-night and dream of oysters...

heh, i'm curious to read this blog tomorrow morning when i'm sober :b