Posts made in February 23rd, 2013

The Creperie

Posted on Feb 23, 2013 in Restaurants | 0 comments

Jan 16

3 of my Japanese girlfriends and I went to The Creperie for lunch.

It was under ground, so it feels dark, but it’s a big restaurant and has a wine-cellar-like nice atmosphere. There were some negative comments on Urbanspoon such as “dusty” or “dwindled”, but I didn’t feel so too much. It was not crowded at all though.

A 3-course (salad, main course, dessert) sounded a good deal. All of us had that.
Nice big selections for salad and main, so it took some time to decide! I decided California Salad, which had nice fruity raspberry vinaigrette dressing on it. There were as much as 3 selections of crepes for vegetarians! Nice! I had a Crepe Ratatouille, which is zucchini,tomato, eggplant,red and green peppers, onion, garlic and herbs, topped with our cheese mix and wrapped with our herb crepe and topped with cheese!
Dessert was also crepe.
We had a really great time eating and chatting.

One week later, I went back there with my hubby.
This time, I had Crepe Florentine, which is creamed spinach with mushrooms sprinkled with mozzarella cheese. He had a seafood crepe.
It would be nice to come for dinner too.

The Creperie
(780) 420-6656
Downtown
10220 103 St, Edmonton

Ice on Whyte 2013

Posted on Feb 23, 2013 in News / Topics | 0 comments

Feb 1

First, fill your belly. We had omelette and blueberry pancakes. Yummy!

We went to see “Ice on Whyte”. This competition started in 2003, because some individual artists wanted to exhibit.
We visited this exhibition last year as well.
I forgot how much the entrance fee was last year, but this time it was $5. This year the volume of sculptures seemed less than last year. I wonder if it depends on the year as the artists are busy traveling from one festival to another and the schedules don’t match or something…

For a few days before this day, it was around -25 c. No worry about melting, but it’s too cold to go out. This day the temperature went up and it was around -2 c. The next day’s forecast was around zero, so it must melt quite a lot. Even this day, we saw some sculptures melting or even falling!

 

This one is called “Chase”, but the deer had fallen and was broken… :

This was the original:

Very beautiful. (I borrowed the image from this official site.)

This day, it was “Dutch Day” at the event, and Dutch artists were carving a  famous Dutch person (?). We think it’s the future king??