Vampyres

Last night it was Bonnie’s birthday so Paul arranted a vampire party for her at Ediths! It was really fun. Paul spent hours decorating for it (as usual) and replaced all Edith’s lightbulbs with red ones. Edith made gravestone brownies and an eyeball cake and everyone brought red drinks (um I mean blood). We watched Nosferatu accompanied by very appropriate creepy instrumental music. I think its scarier than any of the other vampire movies I have seen. I was Mercy Brown, the last American Vampire. The tooth fairy also showed up.

More on the connection between Vampires and TB:
http://www.ceev.net/CEEV/biocultural.pdf

Earlier in the day we went to Café art Java on Mont-Royal with Joel and Sofi. It was so good! Finally we have a good place to have coffee in Montreal!

Then we went to the Library and Dan worked on his French homework while I took out some books. I was able to get Hawking’s “The Universe in a Nutshell” as well as “The Sun in the Church” which is a book about how the Church promoted the study of astronomy in order to set the correct date for Easter and develop a calendaer. I had no idea the whole calendar/Easter thing was so complex. It looks like it took over 1000 years of fiddling to get it to work. Apparently there was a year that was 454 days long to correct for the drift in the calendar since spring was happening in winter!!

Then we hung out at Place Desjarsins and had supper until the party. Dan worked on his French and a guy came in and started preaching at the top of his voice but was eventually escorted from the building.