Jesus in Saskatoon
My office was kind enough to fly me home for the year end party on Friday. I came back a week early so I could visit friends, eat out every meal, and play some sports. I played squash on Tuesday which pretty much put me out of commission for anything else requiring me to move. I did manage to eat out almost every meal so at least I succeeded at that.
Rachel and I never really thought much of it but apparently I look like Jesus with my man-beard. Every day I was back in Saskatoon I would get many comments about the apparent similarities. When I was at Earl’s I heard a girl at the table beside us go “hey, doesn’t that guy look like Jesus” while pointing and laughing (the usual response from girls). More on this later in the post.
The year end party was a medieval feast. There were a bunch of actors/actresses acting out different stuff throughout the night. There was one knight that told some stories (King Arthur and Beowulf) during the evening while the other actors acted out as he talked. The audience participation came into play when 2 knights would get into a fight and the king figured a competition was the only way to resolve it. We had office jousting which was one person sitting on an office chair with a foam lance while another person (the horse) pushed the chair, executive head hunting where we shot pictures of the executives with toy bow and arrows (this is what I participated in and missed with all 3 arrows), and bar wench racing where you had to run around some pylons balancing a tray of items. The team I was on won the activities (no thanks to me).
For food we had to eat all of it with our hands which was a different experience. I wasn’t a fan of well, any of the meal. They had meat pie so that kind of ruined their chances. The night ended with one of those big air filled gladiator rings where everyone was allowed to go up and fight. The picture explain it much better:
I enjoyed when I was up fighting and the crowd started chanting “Jesus! Jesus!”
On Saturday I went to Hitman (which was way better than I thought it would be but it still isn’t worth seeing in the theater) and saw this crazy commercial. It’s too bad the title on youtube usually gives away what the commercial is for but try to not read the title while watching the video. I totally thought it was going to be a commercial about Rock Band.