Food and Sundance

It’s been a full month since I last posted. Bad bad Marsha!

What excuses shall I cite? Christmas, New Year’s, Ukrainian Christmas, having my son home for the holidays.

And I ate way too much! Kept making bread and buying cake and other sweets for my son but then I would eat it. Bad bad Marsha.

So I have reformed. Or I’m trying to reform. Otherwise I’ll have to take my contact lenses out before looking in the mirror!

As part of my reformation, I was on a quest for Wishbone Salad Spritzer.

I have seen so many ads for this stuff on TV, but they don’t sell it in Canada. We were in Utah last week though, so I picked some up. In fact, all I had to declare at Customs was $18 worth of salad dressing~

Speaking of Utah — we went there for my husband to ski and for me to use the quiet hotel room to write. But we caught beginning of the Sundance Festival. Suddenly, on the Thursday, our hotel became filled with non-average people. There were very tall tanned men with obvious surgical enhancements to their faces. There were women who looked like they should be toppling over because of their improbable flotation devices. There were lots of people wanting to be served first and treated first because they were self-proclaimed VIPs. More fun to watch the people than the films, I bet.

We were in a restaurant on Thursday night and a large group of non-average people came in. The men — who were older so their surgical enhancements were starting to droop — were wearing fur jackets. I don’t mean manly fur jackets, I mean waist length orangey fur jackets that looked like they were borrowed from someone’s grandmother in the 1970s. And there was a woman wearing a Zorro hat and another with a head of hair that was so perfect it couldn’t possibly be real.

But we had a lovely time. The hotel had an outdoor heated pool and it was so refreshing to breathe icy air while basking in steam. And I got a lot of writing done!

Author: Marsha

I write historical fiction, mostly from the perspective of young people who are thrust in the midst of war.

7 thoughts on “Food and Sundance”

  1. Welcome back, Marsha! Utah sounds like it was heaven, with or without non-average people (love your observations!). I may be breathing in icy air next week, though there will be no pools: library tour of northern Saskatchewan. I’m looking just as much forward to the 16 hours on a bus (each way–lots of time to read, even write) as I am to connecting with the kids 🙂
    -Anita

  2. Non average people made me laugh out loud! Glad you had a good time. We’re heading towards snow tomorrow and all looking forward to it.

      1. You’re up even earlier than I was, Marsha! It’s overcast here, but lots of snow. We left at three and had a little trouble close to home, getting up to the mountain to pick up the small dude from school was interesting! Once we got past Burlington, there was no snow at all and we had a really easy drive.

        Can you remind me of the name of the small, good restaurant in Collingwood? We’re coming there next weekend and thought we’d book/

        1. I had trouble driving up last night too. O was already up so I was doing it on my own. The roads were terrible until I got north of the 401.

          Here’s that superb restaurant:

          27 On Fourth Restaurant & Bar
          27 Fourth Street East 705-444-8322

          and there’s this one (used to be called Between Friends — food’s a bit less upscale but still good):

          Bistro, Bistro, Bistro formerly Between Friends
          188 First St. Collingwood 705 446 3337

          And our favourite pizza place — they have homemade ice cream too:

          Tesoro Italian Restaurant
          Pine Street at 18 School House Lane 444-9230

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