Dec 2, 2007 - 6th Annual Holiday Dinner (61 Pic)

[Spyder01]

At around midnight of Dec 1st marked the first major snowfall of 2007. The weather throughout the day was rain, snow, ice, all mixing up turning the roads from wet flooded roads to black ice and back to flooded wet roads again throughout the day. Due to some safety concerns, some members who original were participating in this event had to stay home to be safe.

However, this did not stop the 30+ members and their friends and family heading out for this annual event by the Toronto Protege Club. In pouring rain, members started to arrive to Tuckers Marketplace located at Warden + Eglington, members quickly rushed into the restaurant holding and hiding their gifts from getting wet. This year, thanks to Kocakola's organization, we were able to secure a private room for our Christmas dinner. Members got seated, and placed their gifts by the gift area and proceeded to enjoy the buffet at Tuckers.

As members were finishing their deserts, Junior, our President of the Toronto Protege Club stood up and thanked all members of the club for a great year. As an old tradition, some appreciation awards were given out to all the officers of the club. Members also got a chance to participant in a draw for many Mazda branded gifts donated by Dave Wood Mazda.

All in all, this 6th annual TOprotege Holiday dinner was a great event to end the 2007 year. Now everyone will need to prepare for 2008...

[Spyder01]

Some members might noticed the photos are a bit different from my usual pics, this is because I was using a new lens for this event. Only brought it the day before and never had a chance to test it out. The turnout looks awsome though!

The eastside pre-meet for the 6th annual TOP holiday dinner
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It was raining, cold and icy... members still made it out! Pro
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Arriving at Tuckers Marketplace, the spot chosen for the 6th annual TOP holiday dinner
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Kocakola and MarleyMar
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Mr. President, Junior
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The eating equipment :p lol
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I think one of the forks is placed wrong... :p
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Tucker's Marketplace. You can see the entrance to our private room.. awsome
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The gift area... all those secret santa presents
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The flash was too bright :p I'll have to re-adjust the flash later on
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The 6th annual TOprotege Holiday Dinner
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The buffet was awsome, not as many selection as I expected, but the steak was good :p
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Members taking a break between to let the food settle and going for the next round
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Members enjoying their dinner
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Anson and Kocakola giving the thumbs up. Guy in hood enjoying pasta... lol
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On the left, Mazda_rida enjoying desert with Nancy. On the right, Cocco and Preludegirl, and ALS_Protege(We should change his name to ALS_STi now)
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Romeo_MP5 coming into the picture a bit too late, ha ha
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I told everyone I was taking a pic... lol but everyone decide to iqnore me :( . Except Scooter... Scooter is pro :D
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Evil_y2k_twins
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Kocakola in liquid form
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More secret santa presents!
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Kocakola giving out tickets for the prize draw
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The prize tickets.... ooo... i hope i win!
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Testing the flash... Spin_e and Hair_extrodinare
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Salt, pepper and sugar
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Ice cream... yum...
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LoL, I chose the Ice cream that said it was sugar free... so decided to add back some sugar
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Yep, this one was missing some sugar too
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Re-adjusted the flash, lighting looks more natural
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Went by the window to take this pic, it was pouring outside.. luckly it was above 0 so nothing was freezing
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Mr.President, Junior, making his speech, thanking all members for a great year
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The TOprotege Christmas card
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Time for some prizes
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Mazda "Head" bag :D
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Everybody got head :p
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A Mazda branded cooler
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KJS getting head too
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More prizes donated by Dave Wood Mazda
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Then, some awards for the officers of TOprotege! Vice President, RicecookerP5
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Whoo hoo, I got an appreciation thing too! Never expected it, awsome! So pro!
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Romeo_Mp5
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Kocakola
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Cocco
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Previous President of the Toronto Protege Club, Scooter.
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Then Cocco and MarleyMar started to hand out the secret santa gifts
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Junior and his secret santa gift
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Ricecooker speaking a few words too, lol the pre-focusing graph on the camera getting ricecooker's attention :p
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Ricecooker, thanking Junior for ensuring TOprotege is running perfectly
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The 2007 Toronto Protege Club Christmas card
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2003_mazdaspeed said the santa looks like Junior :p lol :D
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Then members opening up their secret santa gifts
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Fun opening up gifts
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Many gifts on the table
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Ricecooker's secret santa gift... with a bag of rice!
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Then Romeo_Mp5 couldn't get his present to open... needed help from PreludeGirl
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LOL event midnitehour had to step in!
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HA HA, its a baseball bat for that company that wouldn't return Ed's HIDs after sending them in for service
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What is this! lol I was FORCED to open my gift! nooo! ha ha ha... For the past 2 years, I've never opened my secret santa gift before christmas yo!
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MarleyMar standing there ensuring I open it up ha ha ha!
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SOO PRO! Awsome! Spyder01 Photography! SWEET
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Awsome event :) So pro, Thank you TOprotege!
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[KJS]

Pro! Can't wait to see the pics. I'm glad I came out as I was hesitant at first.

[Scooter]

Great times, good company, and too much food :p

Thanks to my secret (not so secret) santa for the "TOPs biggest post-whore tags" LOL...too funny. Do you guys really think I post that much? :p

As always...great job with the pics and write-up Eric. Thanks also to the TOP Officers for recognizing with the plaques. Great idea and very thoughtful. :thumbsup:

somebody should have woken Christian up for this picture... :p
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[Kocakola]

yea I just got home. amazing event, it was worth the 4 hours of 40km an hour on hwy 115 sliding around like crazy. seriously the worst roads ever. Picture all the rain in toronto, but frozen, thats what my drive was like. my car is covered in an inch of ice, no joke. man, I've never gripped the steering wheel so hard.

[Spyder01]

yea I just got home. amazing event, it was worth the 4 hours of 40km an hour on hwy 115 sliding around like crazy. seriously the worst roads ever. Picture all the rain in toronto, but frozen, thats what my drive was like. my car is covered in an inch of ice, no joke. man, I've never gripped the steering wheel so hard.

better than what I came home to... lol my driveway was all ice, then the snowplow came and put this heavy snow/slush wall at the end of the driveway. I had to get out and plow a path through that wall into my driveway in POURING rain, and the area around the snow wall was also iced up, it was crazy! The drive home was ok, just lots of rain.

[Kocakola]

how is an icy driveway worse than icy roads for a 150 kms :p

[Spyder01]

how is an icy driveway worse than icy roads for a 150 kms :p

walking and slipping on an icy driveway compared to driving and drifting on icy roads? lol you get to drive on the ice! I had to slip and slide on my feet in pouring rain!! ahhhh

[Kocakola]

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[ChopstickHero]

looks cold outside!

[msequence]

Kool ... love the organization and the plaques... good job Junior

[Spin_E!]

THanks to everyone that made the party happen. Had a ton of fun!!!!!

Oh and who ever gave me the Chapelle DVD.... It was a sick way to spend last night after that drive, a classic!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Perma]

Awesome pictures, Eric. And looks like everyone had a great time!!

[Marleymar]

^ + 1 great times for sure Pro

[Ruckuss]

I'm glad you guys had fun, I wish I could have made it.

[Preludegirl]

Had a great time :)

[LondonZoom]

Looks like a great time, Sorry I had to miss it.

That's a great looking shirt Eric. Good call on whoever gave that to him.

[midnitehour]

good times.. food was pretty good too but it got me sleepy on the way home..

[Scooter]

Looks like a great time, Sorry I had to miss it.

That's a great looking shirt Eric. Good call on whoever gave that to him.

:D ...

[Preludegirl]

good times.. food was pretty good too but it got me sleepy on the way home..

I ate way too much!

[yellowmsp03.5]

man i wish i could have went... but it would have been stupid.. i started my way down and got to bolton... and stopped and ate there and went home... the rain was freezing my wipers to my windshield as i drove with them on a pretty high speed and full blast defrost... dont even get me started about trying to see out of my side windows nevermind my mirrors (and they are heated and couldnt battle the fast freezing ice) i was in four-wheel drive and kept getting stuck at lights...

oh well, i really wanted to be there but unfortunately i couldnt... hope it was awesome... too bad i couldnt have attended to make it that much more awesome

[midnitehour]

I ate way too much!

shouldn't have eaten the salad.

[Preludegirl]

shouldn't have eaten the salad.

What I think I out-ate you :D (snickers *lightweight*)

:D

[Spyder01]

I should go put up the christmas tree and put all the new gifts under there :D

[KOKKINO]

boy was there ever a lot of Head at that party!..lol...j/k

Had lots of fun!!
Nice pics Eric :)

[raghtal]

boy was there ever a lot of Head at that party!..lol...j/k

Had lots of fun!!
Nice pics Eric :)

I meant to ask you where you got your EU registration plate from
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[KOKKINO]

I got my plate from Greece, but you can order them online at
www.licenseplates.tv (http://www.licenseplates.tv) :)

[ansonr1980]

it was good food good friends, and a great time

[ansonr1980]

Anson and Kocakola giving the thumbs up. Guy in hood enjoying pasta... lol
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lol

[gswift]

boy was there ever a lot of Head at that party!..lol...j/k

Had lots of fun!!
Nice pics Eric :)

I got Head twice!!....Ummm yeah...lol...

I had a good time at the dinner....

fun times!

[Mazda_rida]

great time, i really enjoyed myself!

[Genesis]

Had a good time, food and everything was nice.

[Junior]

Thanks to everyone that came out and represented the club at TM. Good times and I enjoyed myself as well.

I have to admit that at first I didn't think a lot of people would venture out into the cold/snowy/slushy mixture of weather we had on Sunday night, but it's great to see that I was wrong.

The event was a great success this year and I hope everyone had a blast. Hats off to the establishment for giving us time to complete our presentations and for respecting our 'own room', if you will.

Thank you to all the officers that helped in the organization of the event, as well as the coordination of prizes and support on and off the forum.

Special thanks to Eric for all his dedication over the past year covering events and providing us with some great pictures so that every other members can see what happened, without actually being present. The coverage is always complete and informative.

Again, hope that everyone stays safe over the holiday season and I also ask you all to be responsible... if you consume alcohol, please leave the car at home, or take a cab.

We want to see you all back here, safe and sound in 2008. Great things are coming for the new year, and we always look to keep the events entertaining and exciting!

Cheers,

Jr

[maggicman]

Had a good time and it was nice to meet the faces behind their names. Great pics:D

[Kocakola]

^good to meet you, well see you. haha never got a chance to formally introduce. next time.

[Mike_Moss]

Pics look awesome...too bad I couldn't make it. :( I think this is the first Xmas dinner I've missed in 4 yrs. Gah.

Next year!

[prot3g3]

this looks like it was great, to bad im so dam far away, next year for sure!

[Kocakola]

^ I was farther :p

[prot3g3]

your also a rep :)

next year ill come though for sure