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Tonight Drew and I hosted dinner for our NO KIDDING!<\/a> group.\u00a0 It’s a social group for people who, for whatever reason, don’t have kids.\u00a0 We have a standing get together on the first Friday’s and third Saturday’s of each month.\u00a0 We can’t often make the Friday evening gathering due to work committments – it’s a drop in after work<\/em> function – but we do try to make as many of the Saturday events as possible.\u00a0 Each month’s event is hosted by a different member.\u00a0 Usually they’re dinners at a favourite restaurant or a house party.\u00a0 Occassionally we’ll try something different like visiting the race track, karaoke (great the first time, flopped the second) or nature walks.\u00a0 Whatever we do always turns out to be a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

After dinner at Japanese Village we walked over to Second Cup for yummy Vanilla Bean Hot Chocolate and then headed across the street to Churchill Square.\u00a0 The city was hosting an outdoor movie (Alvin and the Chipmunks) for families.\u00a0 People brought their own lawn chairs and there were vendors selling non-alcoholic drinks, popcorn and hotdogs.\u00a0 Prior to the show organizers kept kids entertained with singing, dancing and limbo lines.\u00a0 None of us had seen anything in the news about the event but it seemed like a neat way to get people out and using the square on a long weekend.<\/p>\n

The screen the movie was shown on was pretty neat.\u00a0 It was on a a giant blow-up frame.\u00a0 The roads were blocked off so the screen could be anchored and cops and (what looked like) private security guards patrolled the area.<\/p>\n

It appears that the city will be hosting another outdoor movie night for the August long weekend.\u00a0 I know the city has been looking for new events to host in Churchill Square to bring more people downtown.\u00a0 Considering how successful this event appeared to be, if it’s not too costly it may be a good idea to have family movie nights more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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