Potluck at Tom and Florianne's

Tom and Florianne had a Christmas potluck dinner at their place on Saturday. I think the last time I was at their place was for another holiday potluck dinner three years ago.

That was probably the last time I saw some of their other invited guests. Other than cursory contact through Facebook, I hadn't met up with many of them in person in quite awhile.

Of course there were new people too. Tom invited some of his other hockey friends over from a mixed league that plays on Saturday night. They were the second wave of people who showed up... after their game of course (since it was Saturday).

I know Tom from hockey on Fridays. We've played with the same group of friends for many years. I met Florianne dragon boating in the summer a few years back. It's nice that they've opened up their home to different gatherings over the years. Tom's a great cook. There's always a lot of wonderful food. And it's great to catch up with people after such a long time apart.

Dinner at Tom and Florianne's

Renée and Daryl on the left and Helen and Florianne on the right.

Tom and Florianne invited a group of us over to their place for a holiday dinner last night. It's something they've been doing for a little while now.

It was nice to reconnect with a few familiar faces again. Some of them I only see once a year at these annual get togethers.

Tom and Florianne are both great cooks. So the food is always quite lovely. They put a lot of work into their parties which I'm sure everyone appreciates.

I took some photos with Tom and Florianne's Canon 60D. I have an older generation of the camera and was thinking about picking up this, the latest version. It's been out a couple of years now and the price has been consistently dropping. I thought I'd give it a test run to see how I like it.

Kung Hei Fat Choy

Daryl, Denise, Virginia, Tom, Christine, ?, Florianne, Nancy, Calvin

Happy Lunar New Year. 2012 is the Year of the Dragon. On Saturday night Tom and Florianne invited us over to their place for dinner. Tom prepared a lot of amazing dishes for everyone. It wasn't Chinese food he made however, but Thai. That's all right it was great nonetheless.

A few others pitched in with dishes of their own. Of course Florianne helped Tom in his preparation. Denise and Daryl made desserts too. It was all really delicious.

It had been around a year since I saw some of the folks there. It was nice to catch up again.

Most people arrived shortly after 7:00. By the time the first guest left it was nearing 2:00 in the morning. Where did the time go? The rest of us filed out soon after. After all Tom and Florianne had been wonderful hosts. We had to let them get to bed.