My Brother's Birthday: 9 Kids, 6 Adults, 1 Cat and 1 Dog in a 630 sq ft Condo

I hosted a birthday party for my brother and his friends this weekend. My condo is so tiny, I put a limit of 6 kids on the party. Of course that means 9 kids and 3 parents showed up (totalling 6 adults). Once again I was really impressed with the layout of this condo. It seems like there is so much more space that there really is, even with so many people in it. Of course we did not spend a tonne of time in the actual apartment, maybe 2 hours tops. The kids went swimming and then we all watched a movie in the theatre room. My brother picked out "The Quest For The Holy Grail". In fact, the whole party was knight themed, starting with the invites, which were scrolls tied with ribbon. The kids even wore knight costumes and before going down to the pool, they made knight helmuts using duct tape and fun foam pre-cut from patterns my mom found online. In the pool, the kids had sword fights with water squirting foam swords.

The cake was a masterpiece of course. My mother does the most amazing cakes every year. This one was a castle surrounded by a moat and it had the funny French guy, the cow thrown by the French guy, and the killer bunny from Quest For the Holy Grail.

The kids had a great time and so did I but, man I am glad it is over!!!

The New Condo

This weekend I moved into my new condo (yay!). My boyfriend and I purchased it well over a year ago and we have just been waiting for it to be built. Not that we have any complaints about that. Infact the move in date was earlier than we expected. I would upload photos but our Internet is not hooked up yet and it is bad enough that I am blogging at work. Getting out the digital camera and hooking it up to the computer might be just a little much.

Anyway, we moved into a 630 sq.ft unit in the Pinnacle Centre at Harbour and Yonge (downtown Toronto). The three of us (my boyfriend, cat and I) are still getting used to such a small space but it is very exciting. Okay, maybe that cat is not so excited but whatever, I got to check off homeowner on a survey for the first time ever!