T&T Supamarket Partay?

Our family got invited to this weird party set up by T&T Supermarket that was held at their head office in Richmond. Not your average party and not your average supermarket. Each of us get a coupon book that holds coupons for free stuff. In fact, the whole party was free.. the food, the drinks.. the games.. etc.

Perhaps they created this because they had too much money to spare? Anyway, it was setup like a carnival (it's so carnival like you can call it a carnival, practically) there was a stage, game booths, and those things that are filled with air that get bloated up. I can't bite my tongue on the word.... It's just this balloon like thing that gets filled up with air constantly and children play around on it.. I might remember the word later..... There was this particular "AIRY THING" that had Dragonball Z pictures on it. Very.. weird.

Okay, the food wasn't that great. Firstly, it came in a plastic clear box and the only contents were california rolls and a chicken leg. The chicken wasn't overly great and the california rolls began to flip on you if you ate too much of 'em. Second of all, there were drinks you could get from a coupon tnat gave you the ablility to get 2! The variety wasn't that wonderful though... there was Sprite, Coke, Bottled Water and other boxed drinks. Next, there was popcorn that was pretty tasteless and dry. Not to mention, not hot at all. There were also desert-like treats that came in different flavours like Coffee (that I got), and some other berry choices. The odd thing was, when you went to pick up the actual food part, either got a handful of cherries or grapes depending on the time you went to pick it up. o_O

Moving on.... We met our relatives there, as planned. It was in the late afternoon and it was still really hot. We had to stand around waiting for our turn in a particular game. There weren't much: picking up duckies and see what number you get to pick a prize, fishing, basketball, hockey, baseball (just shooting stuff), pool (the guys who played sucked big time! it was a straight line and they still MISS), and spinning wheels. It didn't matter if you won or not, you still got a prize, o_o .. I guess that was the good part. Speaking of prizes, they weren't something to scream about. Simple/cheap plastic toys, LOTS of Ace Crackers (you can win it EVERYWHERE and get it for FREE too!) and LOTS of JELLO (ditto!!!).

The entertainment was alright. In the beginning though, was a very fat singer that won the local singing contest thing (he's on tv and all that.. got in 2nd place I believe.. went to Toronto, yadda yadda). I suppose he doesn't sing all that bad. They had a magician afterwards that was pretty hilarious. That wasn't too disappointing.Since the party was held somewhere past No. 7 Road and by New Westminister Road (the surrounding area is country-like away from the busy section but it was at a commercial zone), the road was pretty clear. We were having a conversation in the car when my dad suddenly stopped talking when he smelled the nasty smell of fertilizer. =_= It was the most STRONGEST fertilizer smell I ever smelt! We had a laughing fit cuz it lasted very long... XD

Overall, it wasn't bad. Except when we sat on the grass for munchies, the smell of fertilizer engulfed our noses and traveled in to send our brain messages of, "Shiet!"