Health & Wellness Show

My friend Holly invited me to join her after work to partake in the festivities to be had at the Health and Wellness Show. How could I resist!!! A) a night out with a new friend and B) I love health, I love wellness, I love free stuff. So I picked out my outfit carefully: comfortable yet "nice" shoes (not Adidas) so you can walk around lots and a light yet warm jacket (nothing worse then a big heavy jacket draped over your arm or coat check). Made sure my hair was out of my face, lip gloss on and I was out the door!!!

I met her in the lobby of the new Convention Centre in Vancouver. If you haven't been there yet, go. It really is quite amazing. Seriously, it's amazing. The details... wonderful. Anyway, we got to the front door of the room and we were pleasantly greeted with goodie bags!!! Not just any goodie bags, but BIG HUGE BROWN goodie bags. Like the big brown bags used at Whole Foods (Choices, a branch of Whole Foods, sponsored it). It was full of amazing delightful things. The goodie bag itself was worth the $12.50 entrance fee.

Once we entered the room my stomach started to growl. HOLY COW there were so many delightful things to sample!!! UNREAL!!! Bread, chips, dips, bars, yogurt, chocolates, seeds, nuts, rice dishes, juices..... I went hungry and I left full. I won't go into full details about everything I tried but my top three:

Vitala Yogurt - Blueberry. HOLY SHIT BALLS. One thing people may not know about me is my secret love of Blueberry Yogurt. I LOVE IT. The first time I had real blueberry yogurt was at a super fancy resort in Scottsdale Arizona. The yogurt I had tonight was hands down the best I've ever had. You can take a tour of the farm in Abbotsford that provides the milk: Bakerview EcoDairy.... I'm going.

Second: Bison Pepperoni. OMG. YUM. It's from Alberta and it's freakin' amazing. I don't have a link otherwise I'd add it but you can get it from Choices Market.

Third: BluePom Juice from Bremner's Juice. It's made locally and it's 100% berries. NO sugar added, NO water added, NO preservatives added.... my 946ml bottle of BluePom (Blueberry & Pomegranate) is made from 2.5lbs of blueberries. OMG. YUM.

I also bought some hummus because I LOVE hummus. Tasty.

After the show we went and had a cocktail at the Fairmont Hotel. There was a grand piano being played by such a talented fellow. He played Toto. HUH-LOW!!! I was in heaven. Now I'm at home.....and alone. Yes....alone. I dropped Robbie off today at the ferry (he's heading to Victoria for a weekend of fun with the boys) and I took the dog to the kennel. Sweet baby Jesus..... I'm alone. I don't have to walk a dog or feed a boy or do anything. Except I am because I've designated this weekend to cleaning out the loft. CLEANING OUT THE LOFT. I'm getting rid of stuff. I don't have room for "stuff" so the stuff is going.

Anyway, I'm off to make a martini, sit in my chair in the dark with nothing but the glow of the fire place, one of my cats snuggled on my lap and watch Slice television. Oh_my_yes_life_is_good.