Local Celebrity Spotting

I was on the bus home from work not three blocks from my house, and who did I see crossing the street?  None other than David Suzuki! I quickly rang for the next stop, but unfortunately the bus took me two blocks before it let me off. I started to run towards where I saw David, but he had walked off.

Well, tonight was fun.  After dinner, Sara and me decided to stay away from the computer and TV.  We played  Canasta - a card game we had learned last Christmas but hadn't played since.  Sara beat me hands down, surprise surprise.  But then - world be my witness - I discovered something Sara's much worse at than me - much much worse, and I'm not even very good at it.  Writing upside-down with her left hand.  This quickly evolved into left-handed upside-down mirrored-image writing.  Proudly, I'm also much better than her. But after that, she took me to town at 3D tic-tac-toe.

Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.

-Rob 

Welcome to our front yard!

With a big weekend of skiing last week, we decided to stay a little closer to home this weekend. The beach you can see in all of these pictures is less than a block from home, and the water and mountains are our everyday view. Walking to our local Starbucks, you see the mountains. Walking to the grocery store you see the mountains. Going to the library...well, you get the idea!

Even though we stayed in the city, we certainly kept pretty busy this weekend. Friday night we went to my gym's annual Christmas Party. It was held at a club in Yaletown - a really nice thing for the gym to do, to rent the place out and let us all in for free! Once I finally warmed up in the drafty room, it was a great night. Lots of dancing, a fashion show, people of all different ages...all in all, a really nice event!

Saturday we spent the day getting chores done, but wanted to make our place feel a little bit more festive. Without spending a lot of money to really decorate, we decided we would make our own Christmas stockings, so that we can use them to exchange gifts in our pre-Christmas celebration before we go back to Ontario. You can see we were both hard at work getting our little pieces of felt to look just right... Good to get some creative juices flowing though!



Then Saturday evening, a couple of our friends from university came over to our place for a board game night filled with lots of laughs. We played Boggle and Scrabble and did a lot of catching up in between. Definitely something we plan to do again in the near future!

By the time Sunday rolled around it felt like the weekend had already been SOO long. Rob got a massage, we relaxed and read at Starbucks, and we finished up a few chores.

All in all, a weekend filled with good friends, good music, and beautiful mountain views :)

-Sara