Baby Bump

I've had a few requests to share some photos of my growing belly. So I've set up a photo album and every week or so I'll add a new photo of my baby bump.

In related news, I had a midwife appointment today and all is well with both baby and mom :)

Baby Bump

Spring Time in Vancouver

Spring is my favourite time in Vancouver. There are always a few weeks when the cherry blossoms and magnolias are in bloom, and there is still snow in the north shore mountains; in my opinion there is simply no better time to view Vancouver.

This past weekend we took advantage of the sunny weather to get out side to fly our kite. Then we headed to our favourite Italian delicatessan, and picked up all the fixins for a picnic. Our first plan was to head to Deep Cove to sit by the water, but apparently everyone else in Vancouver had the same idea and there was no parking to be found. So instead we headed up Seymour mountain where we stopped at the Deep Cove lookout and had a mountain-top picnic.

As always, here are a few pictures/videos:

Spring Time in Vancouver

James and Kerri's 1st Adventure Race 2009

On Saturday April 25th, James completed his first adventure race of the 2009 season with his sister Kerri. They finished the 30 km course of running, biking and navigation in a stellar time of 3 hours and 8 minutes, which was well under their goal of three and a half hours. But even more impressive was the fact that they placed 14th out of 34 teams in their category (co-ed pairs), and 69th out of the total of 140 teams. This is an excellent start to their season, considering they both had been quite busy in the weeks leading up to the race, and had not trained nearly as much as they had planned :)

Kerri's boyfriend, Adam, and I were their personal paparazzi and cheering squad. We saw them off at the start line, met them at check point four to cheer them on, and greeted them at the finish line. In between we checked out the shops in Port Moody, and sat in the sunshine at a local cafe.

Here's some Pics:

Adventure Race - April 25

More from London

Thursday night Wency, a work colleague, and I went to the Apollo theater to see the musical called "Wicked." It is based on the booked also called wicked, which is a story about the witches from The Wizard of Oz. It follows the friendship of the 2 witches from Sorcery school through to the melting of the wicked witch of the west.

I would recommend this play to all, it was fun, humourous, and enjoyable.

Royal Albert Hall

I've been back in London for work this week. As such, I've tried to continue making the most of the opportunity being in London to see as much as I can. Last night I got tickets to see the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring movie with a slight difference, the music was played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

I was really interesting, at times I was watching the movie and would forget that the orchestra was playing. The night was great fun and the building was quite amazing to see as well.

Photo Gallery Updates

For those of you interested, I have and will continue to upload past pics. Please check back to the photo gallery for the updated. Also, if you like a certain picture or caption, please add a comment to let me know, the same can be done on the blog as well.

Here are some of the recent gallery additions:

Xmas 2007

BlackTusk

Whistler Spring Skiing

On Sunday, I drove up to Whistler to meet up with some work friend that were vacationing from Toronto. The forecast had nothing but sun and double digits!!

On Sunday, we ended up skiing Blackcomb. Mainly cause I wanted to try out the snowcross race course, yet the course was under construction. So instead we ventured over to 7th Heaven and skied on cloud nine for a couple of runs.

After a quick lunch at the top of 7th Heaven, I took Chris and Paul over the experience the Blackcomb Glacier, it was a bit of a hike for chris but worth it (right Chris?).

I decided to crash overnight and take a day off in Monday, as it was my last day being 30 so I thought I would make the most of it.

Monday we headed up Whistler and did a warm up run on the Saddle, it turned out to be not so much a warm up run, but a indicator of how sore we were from the previous day. After this we headed over to the Harmony Bowl for a bunch of runs, then off to Symphony Bowl.

Overall, the 2 days were amazing. Spring stlye skiing at it's best. I also happened to get a massive sunburn, including the racoon look from my sun glasses.

Here are some Pics and Vids:

Whistler - Apr