Yeah, I got ink done. . .

Well. . . not so much ink per se as patterned adhesive polymer. But yeah. These my dawgs, yo. We tight.

I spent my last Friday in Canada with my Japanese language partner Chinami. It was her last day in Canada as well and so, with the help of her host family, we made a day out of it.

First, since Chinami had recently seen The Dark Knight, we went to the theatre to see The Dark Knight Rises. The good news was that the show we went to was far less crowded than normal-- even a full week after release, Nolan Bat-film showings have usually been packed. The bad news. . . well, without going into a full review, I'll say that Christopher Nolan's habit of writing every other line of dialogue like a bloody graduate-level thesis statement was even more irritating than usual, since it made it that much harder for Chinami to understand what was going on (and I won't even go into Bane 'n' Bale's voices). Still, she liked it, though she said she'll have to watch it again in Japan.

Next, after a trip to the dollar store to buy Chinami a passport holder, we went over to Chinami's host family's house for movies and nachos. Now, my mom likes her some nachos, so I thought I was prepared for what I was getting into.

I was not.

For one, I was not expecting diced chicken in my nachos. I didn't even know that was allowed; I thought it would give protein poisoning or something. And homemade guacamole!? That is quite simply an upending of the natural order, my friends. Avocados are not native to central British Columbia; our frosty, windy climate would kill an Avocado tree before it ever had the chance to bear fruit. And yet we live in a world where Prince Georgians can not only access the Avocado fruit, but can do so in sufficient quantities and with sufficient quality to produce guacamole on a weekly basis.  

The nachos were good is what I'm saying.

Also, the family's oldest child, Maddy, gave me this, my new official Facebook profile image:

Actually, this is a police sketch. I've still got a warrant out in the Tri-State Area over some bogus illegal thumb-wrestling betting charges. 

There are still lots of things to do in Canada, including among many other things finishing off the last part of my St. John's series. Expect mineshafts and icebergs in the days to come.