olive garden and pumpkin carving

I went to olive garden today. SO GOOD. The entrees all come with a soup or salad and some of the best garlic bread sticks in the world. I got minestrone soup - pretty good. We also ordered a sampler plate - chicken fingers, calamari and fried beef ravioli. The chicken fingers were amazzzzzing! So crisp on the outside and so tender on the inside. For the entree I had the Tuscan garlic chicken. That was very good too. Then we got the chocolate mints that I love. I asked for more from the waitress and she was happy to provide me with a handful :P All night I was thinking.. "How come they're not in Canada anymore?" I remember back in the day when my parents would bring me and my brothers to olive garden for lunch after church. It was one of our favorite restaurants and we all couldn't believe they were leaving Canada when they did 5 or 6 years ago. Such a sad day :(

Anyhoo today is halloween, so here are some pumpkin carving pictures from fellowship last Friday.

This is how they grill in America :P
BBQ Food.. Mmmmm... energy for pumpkin carving:
Taking out the pumpkin goop:
Where the pumpkin goop went:
Stabbing the pumpkin:
The Finished Product: Its supposed to be a dizzy guy seeing stars, but everyone thought it was a monkey :P
Lights out!

Edit 11/2/06:
I forgot to mention another Halloween story.. I got a candy gram from one of my friends here at school.. and she writes "Do they celebrate Halloween in Canada?" haha.. its funny because I ask that all the time to my friends here.. "We have (insert item/product/holiday) in Canada - do you guys have that here?" Canada isn't too different from the states... :P There are differences tho.. I'll make up a list of them in the near future..