A lot of firsts

On wednesday we went skating at Nathan Phillips Square.
I haven't gone skating for over 10 years, but it's good to know that you still remember how to after so long.
But before I continue:

What is this? Is there a deer problem at Nathan Phillips Square? I didn't see a deer the whole night... LIES!
Someone explain this sign to me, maybe I'm missing something. Maybe these are educational signs for children and immigrants? I suppose in other areas they'll have signs with different things on them. *shrug*

Toronto City Hall

Nathan Phillips Square skating rink

GO GO GADGET SKATES!

Renting cost $9 for 2 hours (I don't know if they actually enforce the time rule. I think we stopped skating a bit after 2 hours.) which is kinda expensive @_@
The other crappy thing is that the skates I got (and that everyone else got) were pretty dull... I was sliding all over the ice, it was pretty bad. I was too scared to stop or skate fast. I somehow managed to get used to it, I dunno how Mike and XZ learned to skate with dull skates but they kicked ass, same with everyone else who didn't really know how to skate.

Group photo 1

Group photo 2

Fumi always looks so happy XD

Oh and another thing, if you plan on going skating on an outdoor rink make sure it's not windy or really cold...
It was pretty cold when we went, everyone kept saying how cold they were or how their face was frozen. By the end though I was ok since I was moving around a lot (Y).
Next time Mike and XZ are gonna have a deathmatch skating race. It's gonna be awesome.

XZ sitting on the ice

This picture is so funny, it looks like Xz is stabbing Moe in the stomach XD

Moe sitting on the ice

After skating, we head over to Mike's apartment to go eat okonomiyaki(pancake like thing with various things in it).
Mike "conveniently" forgets to buy drinks and asks me to go with him, Mayu tags along cuz we're missing ingredients for the okonomiyaki.
We come back and when Mike opens the door, it's all dark and then SURPRISE!

Moe and Fumi hiding --photo courtesy of XZ

Surprise cake and card --photo courtesy of XZ

I totally wasn't expecting a surprise thingy! I think this was my first surprise birthday! :O
We ate cake(made from scratch by Fumi/Mayu/Mike/Moe), okonomiyaki(cooked by Mayu/Fumi) and XZ's red bean soup. All delicious!

The peaches spell "Rich" in katakana

Okonomiyaki cooking

Cooked okonomiyaki

SOCKS!

This is Sean, Sharon's bf

Lit candle

Mayu staring at lit candles

"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy." --Blade Runner

Hangin out

Mike looks so cool and Fumi looks so happy

Mike with hat, Fumi's either pointing to the hat or saying Mike's number 1

Fumi KO with glove ornament

Good times! (Y)

Oh I forgot to mention that Fumi didn't do capoeira for me even though it was my birthday :(
She did however show us how to hail a taxi cab... "HEY TAXI *POSE*" which was totally awesome so she's neutral. I need to get a pic of Fumi doing her "hey taxi!" pose. XD

If you want to see all the pics I took, I dumped them into my shutterbook album over here
If you want to download them all fullsize in a zip file, grab it here