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!

Ultimat Finals

We joined the Montreal Ultimate Association this summer and played frisbee with the Lawn Deers. It was tons of fun and we met a group of really awesome people. Actually we had so much fun that we are playing in a fall league out here that plays with "on the fly rules". It's kinda like indoor soccer or hockey...tons of running! And... since this summer my one major flip out occured in Edmonton when a dude on the other team started jeering me about my chest...all Montreal ultimate players still think I'm a really calm level headed player! Yes.

First Day of School

Well my little "kidlets" went back for another year of classes this fall and what is back to school without a back to school photo! After putting on their new back to school outfits, okay, that's not true - after Jenn put on her back to school outfit and Steve shaved his face and Dom, well he's doing a correspondence class and didn't need to look good (and besides, he's a male model, idiot and always looks good - I cornered them for a quick picture to immortalize Fall 2007.

PS. The first picture kills me and it comes from a series of about 6 - hard to believe Steve is working on a PhD instead of learning how to cut and play nicely in the sandbox -seriously, why does he make this face when a camera pops up?

Granby Zoo

I don't think that I have been to a zoo since I was about 6 - neither had Steve or Jenn - so the three of us packed a picnic lunch and headed off to the Granby Zoo.

The Zoo is amazing and the thousands of pictures that we raced around taking speak for themselves - BEST ZOO EVER!!!!!

Jenny and Glenn - Part Deux

Montabello is only about 80 kilometres outside of Ottawa. After giving Jenny at least 26 hours to unpack and spend some time with her hubby-to-be after her move from Vancouver, Steve and I "crashed" their party of two.

Here is a picture of the two of them sitting on their new front porch.

Thanks for the visit you two~

Montebello

After Chambly we ventured out to Montebello. Located on the Ottawa River, Montebello is famous for the Papineau Villa and the Chateau Montebello. Papineau was a famous French Canadian involved in pre-Confederation politics and his villa, which was built in 1850, is a National Heritage Site. Located next to the Villa is the Chateau Montebello which the largest log structure in North America and is the Farmont Hotel where Harper, Bush and the Mexican President met for a summit last month.

The hotel and its grounds are beautiful - located right on the bank of the Ottawa River with its very own harbour full of ritsy boats.