another week...

Wooops! And another week has passed me by. I think my excuse this time will be.... will be... that I had no pictures to accompany my post until today, so just decided to wait for the extra colour and interest of the photos - otherwise words, just words, get a little boring after a while? Maybe not boring, but blogs are better with pictures. It's not like there weren't any picture-worthy events this week; we were in Toronto for the Canada-Cuba game and saw family, friends, best friends and teammates from bygone quads (Terry Martin, Dustin Reid, Peter Turpin, Tim Cooper, Paul Duerden - and many of their significant others and babes... so fun!). I hung out with my best best friend Lindsey on Tuesday before the game and it was awesome to see her... we went for coffee, shopped a bit and talked non non non stop. I bought a scarf that Uncle Ralph pointed out could double as a tablecloth (hadn't quite thought of that) due to its size - it's black with very colourful flowers and more flowers. Um, Tuesday night we went to the game and watched Canada get walked all over by a group of lackadaisical Cubans - it seemed like such a nonchalant non-effort to perform.... those Cubans! Anyhooo, we had dinner with Dan and Milka after the game at one of our favourite spots (Teronni) - which was amazing - and then drove home on Wednesday morning. That was not amazing; four hours is in between long drive and short drive, and it usually tends to feel ummm, well more on the long side. Meh. Thursday Bob and Marg joined us here and the four of us headed out to Kanata for the second CAN-CUB match of the three game series, and the show was a good one. Canada dominated and won 3-1, though it could have been done in three sets; the good guys were up 24-20 and somehow lost set three. Anyways, maybe good experience for later? Hopefully.



So, what else what else. Steve's knee is still on the mend so he didn't travel to game three in Quebec City, but made it to a pseudo-bachelor-party-gathering that involved skeet shooting - sounds interesting, no? Man goes skeet shooting and woman goes shopping. I spent most of my Saturday at the Rideau Centre where I looked at baby gear at Sears and The Bay. It didn't take me very long to come to the conclusion that there's way too much baby stuff out there and so I quickly escaped to the market and bought strawberries and broccoli and then felt much better. Buying and shopping for baby is going to be overwhelming, especially because I think I'm still in this mode of not wanting to accumulate stuff, not wanting to buy, get, have more stuff.... meh. Well... whatever. We're still looking for any and all recommendations on gear - so if any readers have any suggestions on strollers cribs necessities don't-buy-this buy-that, your comments are more than welcome. Um, okay! And today we drove up to the north end of Gatineau Park (beeeeautiful drive) and lounged and swam at Parent Beach in a perfect spot under a heavy oak tree. Some sun sparkled through, and the bits of shade kept us comfortable; it was a hot summer day here - fall is being kept at bay. And I'm 27 weeks! Less than 100 days to go. Eep. It will come so so so soon.....