Jenny and Glenn

Last weekend Steve and I took a roadtrip to Ottawa to visit our good friends Jenny and Glenn. We had such a fun time! After a delicious and body concious breakfast of eggs benny and hashbrowns at Glenn's house in Kanata (a suburb just outside of Ottawa) we were off to enjoy a day at the spa. Le Nordik is located just outside of Ottawa in the Gatineau hills. You rotate between hot-cold-rest stations which means that you start with either a steam or a sauna and then a freezing cold waterfall followed by resting in a calming room sipping tea. You do this three or four times and then relax in a hottub to finish off. It was wonderful!

Hanging the Hook - Part Trois

Did I mention that we had a mascot?

Hanging the Hook - Part Deux

Did I mention that we had a mascot and a sponsor (tower of Base drink shown above), the music rocked so loud that the speakers blew and all of our neighbours still love us? Viewer discretion advised for the following photos!

Hanging of the Hook

This past Saturday we celebrated the "Hanging of the Hook" which in Alberta terms translates into the "House Warming Party". The Hanging of the Hook used to occur when someone built a new home and then hung the hook for their pots over the hearth. While we didn't actually hang the hook a lot of us ended up hung over!

Our first house warming gift came from the Quebec government a couple of weeks ago when they issued us what is known as the "Welcome tax" (a tax equal to your property taxes that must be paid each time you purchase a new property). However, lessening the pain somwhat significantly were Dom and Jenn's friends along with our Edmonton celebrity, Zippy Zarzeczny, and Steve's friends from school who came over to help us celebrate our new home. Attached please find 4 of the 5 blog appropriate pictures.

Note, the following all take place prior to our guests arriving!

Let's go Oilers, Let's Go!!

Steve, Jenn, Dom and I went to the Edmonton/ Montreal hockey game on Tuesday night! What fun and what bang for our buck - 4 goals, 40 fights, overtime, shootout, and to top it off we got to park where the players do! Throughout the game Steve and I loudly cheered for the Oilers, Jenn sat on the fence and Dom cursed, hissed and applauded with all the other Frenchies in the building that were cheering for the Habs. Here are a couple of pictures from the night. The Bently in the picture belongs to Saku Koivu and is worth +$350K. Just think, if we put our houses on wheels we all could compete!

I'm on a roll...

We really do live in the best area of town. Everything is close to our house - grocery stores, market, parks, restaurants, movie store, movie theatre, Rona, car inspection shop, winshield repair shop, Costco, recyle centre, UNESCO World Heritage Site - basically, you name it and we got it. Today it didn't start raining until later in the day so Jenn, Dom, Steve and I headed out for breakfast. Check out the line-up for the restaurant - that's how cool our neighbourhood breakfast spot is!

Also, we have ginormous squirrels in this neighbourhood. We thought of marketing them as purse squirrels, kinda like the celebarity purse dogs...if this take off good-bye law!
Anways, here are a couple more pictures from our hood.

Our Beautiful Wedding Gifts

This blog is mostly for my parents, my grandparents and for Steve's Grandma so that they can see the beautiful wedding gifts that they bought us. After scouring the city for furiture and lamps these were the pieces that we took home with us. Well, actually the Bay delivered a lot of it and the moving men we not impressed to find out that we live on the third floor and there is no elevator! They likely won't ever come back. Thanks again so much everyone, we love it all.