Had a great time with Sibylle and Allison yesterday; you can see Allison's LJ report here. Found out, by the way, that her name is pronounced with a slight emphasis on the second syllable AND you pronounced the "e" at the end, sort of like "sih-BILL-eh." But again...she says she's fine with just "Sib."

Here are a few pics from the day...

Sib helps with dinner, a recipe from my Sofra Cookbook (Modern Turkish & Middle-Eastern Cookery) consisting of chicken, tomatoes, honey, almonds and cinnamon:

Notice the towel over the shoulder in the photo above. This is EXACTLY what Jeff does when he's cooking, and the same shoulder, too! Jeff and Sibylle got along scarily well during yesterday's visit. :-)

For dessert, we had baked pastry shells filled with fresh raspberries, drizzled with Devon Cream as well as a Ben & Jerry's peanut butter and chocolate cookie dough ice cream that Sib bought for us. Yummmm....

Sib signs our graffiti book while Cora observes from above and Allison looks on in amusement:

Jeff offers Sibylle tips on where to go in Toronto:

Sib sings her Evil Eyeball Song:

One of things we all talked about yesterday was the whole Livejournal phenomenon. If it wasn't for LJ, for example, I would likely never have known that Sibylle was coming to Toronto a week before FilKONtario and therefore wouldn't have approached her about getting together. I'm not able to keep up with my LJ Friends list regularly anymore, but I happily did see an early entry of Sibylle's announcing her intention to visit Toronto.

And of course we wouldn't have been on each other's LJ friends' lists at all were it not for Filkcontinental, the convention in Germany where we met. I'm still amazed (and immensely grateful) for all the friends we've made and music we've discovered as a result of that convention.

Anyway, I -loved- the fact that Sibylle took pictures in our local grocery store; this is so much the kind of thing I like to do in a foreign country. In fact, during the past couple of days I've discovered that Sibylle and I are alike in many ways; I'm very glad we were able to get together during her visit.

Only five days until FilKONtario!

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