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| Wow. Hard to believe how the time flies. Since my last blog:
1. Visited Calgary and Vancouver - unfortunately, we managed to hit Calgary right in the middle of a cold/rainy spell. We had a very pleasant drive from Calgary to Vancouver in the Honda Civic....I think we made in in about 10 hours! As always, the visit was great but not nearly long enough.
2. We went to my co-worker's cottage up north. It took us about 4 hours to get there.....only 2.5 hours to get back though. Traffic in Ontario is ridiculous! We're still a little baffled at the whole cottage phenomenon in Ontario...how people are willing to drive 8 hours in one weekend just to get a taste of the outdoors. Guess we take the outdoors for granted in BC. Grace and I also had our first experience wake boarding!
3. Visited Ed in Kingston. Again, it took us a ridiculous amount of time to get there as we hit a bunch of traffic numerous times and then also drove through a rainstorm which made visibility very very poor. Kingston turned out to be a pretty nice town with some decent restaurants....much more than Hamilton!
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| Just a quick note....have I ever mentioned how much I hate playing hockey against teams who play dirty. I can't stand it.....it takes all the fun out of playing. Now I don't want to stereotype, but in my experience the teams who tend to take this approach to the game are mainly composed of east indian players. For some reason, they feel the need to assert their hockey abilities by intentionally trying to injure opponents who potentially may make them look bad. Why is it that they choose this approach rather than attempting to play some good quality hockey? I think it is because in their eyes, winning is life or death to them....what a sad state of mind. | | |
| So, it's finally raining and thunderstorming here in humid Ontario. I cannot even remember the last time it rained....all I remember are the scorching hot, humid, and smoggy days we've had for the past few weeks. Thank goodness we have air conditioning!
This past week we watched Fantastic Four....overall pretty entertaining movie with good action, but a fairly simple storyline. I was a little surprised at how quickly Dr. Doom was defeated by the Fantastic Four. The movie reminded me of how I used to read the comic books when I was a child. And no, I wasn't a comic book fanatic (unlike one of my cousins whom I vividly remember was very protective of her plastic encased comic books)  . | | |
| Did I mention that I hate the smog? Just came back from hockey practice in Toronto and I can't take a deep breath without coughing....this stuff sucks  . I think the smog's going to take at least 5 years off my life. | | |
| This past weekend Grace and I saw TWO movies: Star Wars Epsiode III and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. We were both a little surprised at how graphic Star Wars was and how, if we had kids, we would be a little hesitant to bring them to the movie....especially when Anniken's legs were chopped off! Overall, I thought it was much better than the Episode II and it did a good job of linking into Epsiode IV. Mr. and Mrs. Smith was also an entertaining movie moreso for the amount of humour rather than the plot.
We also took a trip to the Ikea midnight madness sale and picked up a Noby footstool to add to our "living room"....we bought beige, faux suede slipcovers...not the ugly blue ones . I demonstrated some of my mom's savvy shopping traits by taking back 2 of the footstools (small cuts in the cushion covering) and ended up getting an extra 15% off!
The weather in Ontario has been scorching hot (above 30 degrees) ...However, with hot weather there is always a lot of smog  and humidity. The next few days the province has asked people to try and conserve energy usage to avoid any brownouts.
The long weekend is almost here!! We don't have any plans yet, but we'll probably head into TO or something like that.
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