Sophie's Cosmic Cafe

Right, it's Emma this time, to tell you about my triumph in the wonderful Sophie's Cosmic Cafe. Jan is a Sunday Lunch addict and Canada has its own version of the English classic in the form of Sunday Brunch. As a special treat, we went over to Kitsilano to Sophie's, where we'd had a lovely brunch on our honeymoon last year. The menu mainly consists of the many things you can do with eggs, but my, what a lot of things you can do! I plumped for Eggs Benedict, whilst Jan went for some other egg-y dish. And huge lumps of potato. And bread. And hot spicy sauce. Yum. There's an awful lot of food between us and we are suffering by the time the plates are clean. Jan pops out for a post-prandial fag, leaving Em on her own with the Sunday paper.
Whilst Jan is outside, the eponymous Sophie appears and asks the entire diner for quiet - it's Sunday quiz time. Not that Jan and Emma noticed, but that morning it had been the Vancouver Marathon and so the quiz was based around this. The first question was "What was the distance of the original Vancouver marathon?" Emma, with a complete guess at 26km, gets it bang on and is rewarded with a chocolate ice-cream sundae as a prize - hurray!

Jan then walks back into the restaurant after having missed Emma's triumph completely. Ooops.

Emma and Jan are feeling very very full but there's still a prize sundae to eat, which appears just as Jan nips out for yet another fag. His timing today is somewhat off. The photos below should tell the story.



Emma and Jan then wander off for the rest of the day's fun, a few pounds heavier but with grins on their faces.