Party at The Rooms!

The Rooms is a beautiful space - it's a fairly new building that houses a triple threat - the Provincial Archives, Art Gallery and Museum. It's huge and spacious with plenty of windows to take in the amazing views.

And, we whupped it up there last night, at a party called the "Scoff n' Scuff" - we "scoffed" the food down and "scuffed" our feet, by dancing! The food was freakishly amazing, seafood everywhere, wine, local beer, so much seafood I think I might have od'd on it. I had fishcakes, cod tongues, many things that were offered to us (again, had no idea what they were called because of the newfie language), shrimp and the best invention ever - mussels in SCREECH!! Oh. My. God. That was simply amazing. And the local beer (again, no idea of the name). Luckily the bartender sort of remembered what I ordered so I didn't have to figure out the name! (not that I visited said bartender that many times... noooo....)


The Yukon contingent! There is like a thousand of us here. At least.

Morgen was teaching Casey to waltz there in the middle of the photo. They did a great job! Sure none of us visitors knew ALL the songs by heart like many people here, but we could pretend.


And this! Holy impressive sight... literally!

St. John's Basilica - opened in 1855(!!), some 20 years after the building started. Amazing.

The shadowy statures were quite imposing and a wee bit freaky in the dark.

As for the weather, well... it's been... rainy! And cloudy! And windy! And cold! Almost like the Yukon in spring! Makes me almost feel at home. I'm now officially adjusted to Newfoundland (AND LABRADOR) time. You guys are all soooo behind... haha.

And for the record, I've only seen one dog so far! But I am remembering what life is like with no dog hair, no hauling of water or buckets of dog food, running HOT water, ROOM SERVICE, someone who CLEANS UP YOUR ROOM EVERY DAY, quiet evenings where there aren't dogs inside and outside and stealing my spot on the couch and ooh! No PB! screeching! Agh, I just realized there has been no PB screeching in my ears for 3 whole days! Wow. This is what life is like with ears that aren't ringing constantly. :)