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Yah Yah Ya and Escape Key

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A couple of days ago (Friday), a group of friends and I decided to try out one of the new escape games in town. There's so many now I've lost count. Unfortunately for us, the time slot we wanted was completely booked. So we were only able to book for the 9:30 slot. Since the escape game was in Richmond, we decided to eat in Richmond after work as well. Initially we decided to cook pasta at my co-worker's place, but then we ended up trying out a ramen place called Yah Yah Ya.


This restaurant is Japanese owned and even has locations in Tokyo. The location of the restaurant used to be a Taiwanese place, which I actually quite liked. The inside of the restuarant was redecorated and really had a ramen restaurant feel. We all ordered ramens. I ordered the Shoyu ramen this time and also got the mini chasu donbori on the side.



The Chasu in my opinion wasn't as good as Ramengers, but isn't considered bad either. The soup was rich in flavor and the noodles were al dente. I didn't end up finishing the noodles though as I was already somewhat full from before dinner.


After dinner, we went over to my co-worker's place to kill some time before heading to the escape game.

This escape game location was unique in the sense that it only had one room. No themes. You were given an extended amount of time of 1 hour and at the end of it all the person goes through explaining all the puzzles with you. We had a group of eight with us playing. I won't go into details about the room but I will say we started it off handcuffed to a partner. In the end, we managed to escape from the room with 2 minutes and 15 seconds left to spare. Talk about close timing. The guy told us we were the second group out of roughly 8 to succeed. And for succeeding, we all could choose a key off the wall and write our names on it. All in all, the escape game was interesting as it was not all numerical questions and required more thinking, but it wasn't particularly hard. However, that could be because we had 8 minds.


We ended the night grabbing drinks at Pearl Castle several blocks away. We didn't get home till 1 am that night! But it was definitely a fun night.

Yah Yah Ya
8388 Capstan Way
Richmond, BC

Escape Key
5951 Minoru Blvd
Richmond, BC

Date night: Vancouver Christmas Market and Falconette

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Friday night after work my boyfriend and I had a date night. We decided to go to Vancouver Christmas Market. Its a German market in downtown Vancouver selling food and knick knacks. Regularly tickets sold for $7 per person. But there was a groupon for $12 for two people which also includes two carousel rides and two seasons passes.  I Happened to buy the groupon when there was an additional 20% off which made it even more worth it.


There was a long line up upon arrival but it went surprisingly fast.  Because I didn't read the fine prints of the groupon properly we forfeited the carousel ride because we went on a Friday. 



Once inside we could see a sea of people and plenty of well decorated stalls. We went straight for the food. To be honest it was all expensive and not with it.  We first had a beaver tail. This was $5.50


After walking around the market, we ended having a Bavarian smokie. For $9.00!!!
We then saw the haxn stand next to it ands immediately regretted getting the smokie. We ended up getting it as well which was another $9.00!! :(


Our poor wallet was crying.  After that we decide we had enough of the crowd and overpriced food. We left the market in search of great food.



We ended up at Falconetti's. We had seen it featured the previous night on diners, drive-ins and ... for their, guess what? Sausages! We arrived around 7:40 and were seated promptly. Apparently either they're always this busy or we went on a bad night because after we ordered which both of us didn't order their featured sausages, he had the quesadillas and I had the pulled pork burger, it was an hour for the food.  The place was not that big and was packed and there was a live band too which was probably why. But I think we were the only ones there just for the food. It was disappointing that the rest of it ruined the experience for us. The pulled pork burger which had a coleslaw accompaniment was good not great.  The pulled pork was good but dry in parts so was inconsistent. 

In the end with deary's beer our bill came out to be $40+ which was still a bit on the high end. This turned out to be a pricey date. Hopefully we'll be brighter next time.

Paintnite

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A couple of weeks ago, my close friend had a birthday celebration. Instead of the usual dine out or party at home, she wanted to do something unique. In the end, she decided that she wanted to go to a Paint Nite. Paint Nite is an event where you go with friends to paint, order drinks and have a good time. The portrait for the night she selected was a whale tale amidst a sea of water with the sun setting in the background. 

I don't think I've EVER painted before, or at the very least not a full portrait anyways. By the time we arrived, there weren't many spots left. Our huge group got separated. We were all given a blank canvas, a cup of water, and a tray of paint with blue, yellow, red, white and black paint. For all the other colors, we had to mix paint. 


We started off with the ocean, painting it blue (obviously) and then mixing in some black for depth and white for waves. Next came the sky. This was a bit tricky as you had to work your way down. From Blue to green to yellow to red. It took a lot of blending, which was surprisingly difficult for me. I wasn't born to paint. In the midst of all the painting, I even accidental took a sip from the water cup by accident. At least I realized before I swallowed. Although I don't think the paint would have been poisonous, It was definitely embarrassing.


We took a break for the paint to dry. I took a stroll around the room and glanced at all the other paintings. There were definitely some artistic people in the room. And some with a wild imagination. 

After the break, we worked on the whale's tail. which was a lot simpler, followed by the clouds and the setting sun. After breaking everything down, painting the picture really wasn't that hard. It did help that there was a teacher going through every step of it for you too. 


All in all I had a good time, although my bf said he would never actually pay again to do it. He would prefer to do it at home for a lot cheaper :P What do you think of this drawing? Would you go to a paint nite?

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