The Travel Monologues

So here are the much-delayed photos from Grad Night 2008. It was a splendid dinner party at Olivia and an awesome after party at 909. Why didn’t we do this more often?

It is MUCH smaller than what the photos on the Olivia website would have you believe.

One of the rare occasions where we get to dress up for a night out. Cos Ithaca is just not worth the effort.

Seared tuna. They served us Chinese dinner-style (i.e. serve food on a huge plate and everyone just helps themselves). I was expecting individual portions so that was a bit of a let down. Frankly, the food was not great. Some dishes were not even of an acceptable standard. The rice they served was bland and hard. Any respectable restaurant should have gotten rice right. That is not to say I didn’t enjoy myself. I love what Sheryl and co did, what with all the fun activities and the awesome gifts they made for us seniors. But then again, dinner at last year’s Sheldrake Point was a let down too. Which brings me to believe these restaurants can’t cater to a huge party. That say, kudos to Sheryl and co for an awesome grad night.

So judging from that dinner, here’s the final on Olivia:

Service: 1.3/2 thumbs up

Food: 0.8/2 thumbs up

Value: 0.8/2 thumbs up

Overall:  1/2 thumbs up

After dinner, it’s after-party at 909. Kings and Never Ever Ever (I forgot how many Evers are there in the name) are the best drinking games. Period. And there is always the requisite drunk clown, who in this case is Ian  Mr Puke. Copious amount of alcohol drunk later, there were many many happy people that night (and one massive cleaning up of a bathroom stained with Mr Puke’s dinner).

Junch’s midnight snack for us. Chocolate and corn crepe (?) with erm…I forgot what it’s called. Some chocolaty thing but it’s mighty good!