The Whip Cream Incident

We escaped the city this weekend when two of our friends invited us out to their cabin for some country time. We sipped red wine all night and made a delicious dinner followed by an apple pie. Steve and Joe were in charge of whipping the cream...Can you believe that the two of them have somewhere around 18 to 20 years of university schooling between them? Ha!

Thanks Joe and Marie-Noelle!

The Men of Ste Cunegonde

Dr. Steve working away on his thesis... (instead of saying Doctor we've taken to calling Steve-o Drrr. Rogers, cause he's not really a doctor yet!)

Our super male model taking a time out. Dom, where's your Mac?

Taking the bottom of the blender apart with the ever present kitchen utensil called the pipe wrench!

Dom re-tiling a lose tile in our kitchen... in ski goggles.

Sometimes all you can do is laugh and walk away without asking...

Tom & Kathleen

Tom and Kathleen Shearer came for a visit a couple of weeks ago! Steve and I love when people come visit because it gives us an excuse to get out and explore the City too, hint hint to all of you out there that have not come to visit yet! These are a couple of pictures from the day.

The Ultimate Defeat

We played ultimate frisbee this fall in an outdoor fall league. It was tons of fun and a bit different than the summer game. The field is smaller, only 5 players are on the field at the time there is no stop time and no pull except for the initial pull in each half. This means that every time a team scores a point they immediately put the disk down in their end zone and then the other team starts trying to move it up the field from that end zone. It's this little difference in the game which can either work in your favour or not and in our last game - not. We suffered possibly the worst defeat in ultimate history losing 55 to 9 which means that for every 1 point that we got, they got 8! Ouch!! Here's a picture of our sad faces right after the defeat. We didn't let it bother us for long...

Happy Halloween!!!

Well my roomies attempted to ignore that today is HALLOWEEN but did I let them - not a chance. While I was the only one to dress up...Steve thinks he might sleep on the couch tonight because my outfit was so good...I did manage to get Steve and Dom to carve pumpkins with me tonight! Joyeux Halloween!!!!

PS. Dom did offer to put on a skirt if I wore the beard out to dinner but Jennifer refused. Bah Humbug!

The Punkin Patch

Because fall is a season out here, and I mean a real season, not just two days in between summer and winter when all of the leaves blow away, well, anyways, as I was saying, because fall is a real season out here, the Quebecois really celebrate fall by decorating with a harvest theme - lots of pumpkins and hay bales, gourds and corn still on the husk. It looks just great! I of course bought a bunch of pumpkins to fill the house with but did stop short at buying a hay bale due to the fact that we live in a condo. This tradition is one tradition I am bringing back to Edmonton even if it means that I have to dust the snow off of my pumpkins and hay bales set out on my front step each fall!

Ste. Cunegonde's Super Male Model

Motorists, especially female motorists, proceed with caution as you head towards the Pont Champlain because here he is...Ste. Cunegonde's very own, very sexy, super male model...and he's larger than life...seriously, how big are you on this sign Dom? Anyways, your blue steel rules.

Dr. Steve!!

Steve timidly let me into the Music Library a couple of weeks ago to show me his Masters Thesis. How cool is this - when you type "Stephen Rogers" into the library catalogue, his name appears with a call number to lead all the eager little music students to his thesis, Zansippar which is a hardcover bound book in the stacks!!!

Anyways, he almost died when I hauled out the camera and made him pose with it, quietly mouthing the whole time, "hurry up I know people in here! Not that I cared...my husband is an academic superstar.

PS. funniest part - we went to the library to get this "shoot" twice - first time Aimes had to distract him with her wily charm and second time Jenny with hers!

PPS. It's not the thickness of the thesis but what's inside that counts.

Paper

Steve and I celebrated our one year anniversary this past weekend. We were advised by a friend that we play frisbee with that this is the paper anniversary however, we skipped gift giving and treated ourselves to weekend in the Adirondack mountains which are about 1.5 hours from Montreal in New York State. The plan was to hike and then cozy up in our two man pup tent - which to date has only been cuddled in by Steve and my dad on their backpacking trips. The hike was fantastic for so many reasons: the peak we hiked was the second highest in the Adirondack mountain range so we could see for miles at the top; there was a thunderstorm rolling in and the sky was awesome; the ecosysten at the top of the mountain was artic alpine and something we just don't see that often; and we arrived on the perfect fall weekend as all of the leaves were bursting with fall colours - reds, oranges and yellows. The mountains looked like they were on fire they were so bright. We took about 2,000,000 pictures.

After the hike our plan was to find a camp site, check out Lake Placid for dinner and then curl up all cozy in our little pup tent however it turned out that Steve had actually forgotten the tent in Montreal. Seriously, who forgets the tent on a camping trip? After some deliberations we voted to not sleep in the back of the Buo and spent the night in a hotel in Placid. We took about 2,000,000 more pictures on the drive home yesterday and then spent the rest of the day playing a game of frisbee with our fall team and then making a curry dish (from scratch) from the cook book Tommy gave us last year.

Girls Week

Jenny and I spent 4 days together this past week in Ottawa. We had such a fun time - we decorated and painted her house, ate way too much food, and spent a bunch of time sightseeing around Ottawa.
I drove down myself and was petrified that I was going to end up in Toronto or something but I pulled it off and only needed to phone Steve for directions when I was about 5 minutes from her house. Would have phoned Jenny but wasn't sure that she knew where she lived exactly either!
Anyways, their home is amazing, their neighbourhood super cool and Ottawa such a great place to visit!
Steve and I are heading back there in 2 weeks and then the 4 of us are heading to Glenno's cabin for Thanksgiving.

PS. The fancy blue bathroom is our handiwork - we painted that while treating ourselves to a bottle of red wine!