The First Weekend of Fall

Calgary fall streetHappy Monday! Fall is most definitely out in full force here in Calgary, but we’re still getting some warm days go along with those chilly nights. The gorgeous yellow leaves that are still (barely) hanging on to the trees on our street make it hard to complain!

On Friday night, Zevi and I went on a mini cocktail bar crawl with my sister, my brother, and my brother’s girlfriend. We started off at Cannibale, a cozy little spot in Bridgeland that has delicious, creative cocktails and amazing snacks and sandwiches to go with them. They have a gorgeous patio with heaters that make it comfortable even on late September evenings, but all the seats were taken outside on this particular evening so we camped out inside instead. My sister works there, so we get all the expert recommendations (and a nice little discount too). I’ve never had a drink there that I didn’t like, but the Santiago, the Tropicante, and the Light Taber (it tastes exactly like corn on the cob!) are my current go-tos. They’re changing the menu soon so lots of those favourites will be gone, but I’m sure they’ll be replaced with something equally delicious!

Once we’d had a couple of drinks we headed across downtown to visit my sister’s boyfriend, Nate, at Proof. It’s a little more upscale than Cannibale, but the cocktails and the food are just as good! I should probably branch out, but I love the smoky, tequila-based Fire in the Pharmacy so much that I can’t bring myself to order anything else . When we mentioned that we might order food, Nate told me that I had to get the pork steam buns and he was absolutely right. They came out family-style with pieces of tender roasted pork, pungent kimchi, thinly sliced veggies and spicy sauce, and they were without contest the best baos I’ve ever eaten. I had two, but I probably could have eaten twelve .

On Saturday we helped some good friends move in to their new house. It’s a great place, and we’re pretty excited because it’s only a few blocks away from where we live! Hopefully we’ll be able to sneak in to their back yard for some hot tubbing in the near future . In the evening we headed up to another friend’s house for her surprise 30th birthday party. I think she had an inkling that something was going on, but I don’t think she was expecting such a big crowd!

Sunday is football day. I’m in an NFL fantasy football pool with a bunch of friends, and I’m pretty addicted to checking my lineup and hoping my opponent’s players break their legs (kidding…sort of). We met up for brunch at the Kilkenny where they have a pretty decent buffet and a ton of TVs so we can watch all of the games at once. All twelve of us in the league actually made it out this weekend, and it was pretty fun to trash talk and watch each other stress out in person instead of just over group chat. I played soccer on Sunday afternoon, and then came home and watched more football (#addicted).

All in all last weekend was a pretty great mix of family and friends, and staying home and going out. Also, I apparently suck at taking pictures because I only have one from the entire weekend. Oops ! How was your weekend?

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      1. Fall is definitely a gorgeous time of year! It goes by pretty quickly up here where I live – we’re supposed to get snow on Saturday 😬

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