10 - Volume One: Birthday Pub Crawl (part one - The Rex)

For my 40th Birthday, I invited friends and family to join me in a Pub Crawl along Queen Street West. We started at The Rex, then moved on to the Rivoli, then the Horseshoe and lastly, Velvet Underground. Only Kerri, Liz, Knob, Stephen and I made it to the bitter end, but a great time was had by all, regardless of how much of the Pub Crawl they took part in.

This blog entry is comprised mostly of friends and family who were at The Rex, at the beginning of the Pub Crawl. My next blog entry will include the entries made after we left the Rex.

My rocket scientist nephew, Jaime. He is on scholarship at UC Berkeley, doing his Ph.D in something more complicated than my brain can handle.

One of Jaime's McGill friends, Andrew, who joined us for the Pub Crawl.

My niece, Becky (Jaime's sister).

Hey, look at this! A duplicated entry!! These are the entries of my sister-in-law Debbie, and Jaime's friend, Liz. Both of them happened to have the business card of this health centre in their wallets! Total coincidence, totally cool. Not quite sure about the "STD" slogan.

My two brothers, Jim and Keith. Jim used the little circle stickers that Canada Post graciously includes with holiday stamps (my Birthday is December 26th and we did this pub crawl on December 29th).

My other brother, Keith, is fixated on colonoscopies, and gave me a related business card, PLUS a generous donation of 5 cents of Canadian Tire money. Awwww........

Dorothy, the girlfriend of my brother, Keith. They had just purchased, the previous fall, their 30 foot Catalina.

KNOB! Knob (Mark K.) and I went to High School together, and then ended up being the only two people from our high school (graduating class of 17 of us) to go to McGill. He drove into the big smoke from Ottawa to partake in the 40th Birthday Pub Crawl. He was toying with the idea of parting with his McGill student ID, but decided to keep it (pack rat!).

This is one of the members of the band that was playing that night at The Rex. Currently living in Toronto, but originally from Israel.

Another one of the members of the band that was playing that night at The Rex. Currently living in Toronto, but originally from New York City.

My sister, Anne, who has already made an entry, already given me something from her wallet. More double-dipping!

Another double-dipper, my friend, Stacey that I work with. I chose to sit in the middle of her department after sitting in the middle of her department for almost two years because there was nowhere else for me to sit. But now, sadly, I have to go and sit with my own department. I will miss sitting in her department.

Stacey's husband, Andrew. Very odd that he had this rather feminine looking hair salon business card in his wallet.