Neil and I “celebrated” our first anniversary yesterday.  I would hardly call it a celebration considering we both forgot that it was our anniversary until Neil’s parents reminded us last night.  A quick hug and a kiss isn’t quite a celebration, rather an honourable mention.  However, we plan to celebrate properly with a heli-board vacation [...]

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Today, I am entertaining myself by observing families of skiers and boarders enjoy the fluffy powder collecting atop the fir trees.  It is a sad day in my realm as I am incapacitated.
During my visit to Cuba, I cut my foot quite severely on oyster shells.  I required stitches, but the nurse explained that my [...]

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Neil and I, along with his parents are spending our Christmas holidays in Whistler. We hit the snow-covered roads yesterday afternoon at around 2:30pm. There was quite a bit of traffic leaving the city, but the wrench-in-our-gear was when we were just coming off of the Lion’s Gate Bridge to take a steep [...]

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Is the word of the week.  We’re expecting Neil’s parents today, but with delays at both ends, Toronto and Vancouver, I suspect they won’t be arriving on time.  Looking at the flight tracker, the status of their flight is “scheduled” and “on-time”, but the realist in me suspects their flight status will change to “delayed” [...]

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This is what I woke up to this morning. Absolutely beautiful. I really miss the snow, particularly when the temperatures are still so mild. I predict that we will enjoy our first white Christmas in Vancouver since moving here four years ago.

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