Thursday, July 06, 2006

Vacation Guest Bloggers *Amended

Most of you know I'm finally getting out of Vancouver for a few days with P for a short vacation. We leave on Sunday and will return some time on Friday. So I just had a funny thought, since so many others do it. I know I won't be blogging as we probably won't have internet access.

If someone would like to act as a guest blogger while I'm gone, I'm all up for that. Just nothing too outrageous please, but more for comic relief would be wonderful. I'd love to come back to a few surprises and many laughs.

Send me a comment or email thnkfst16 from yahoo.com and I'll set you up as a team member.

** Per Request of TBF I'm posting a few pics of P and I ** Since we never do that, I'll try posting more pics of us from time to time also. We don't take many pics and well self portraits of me holding the cam just get old. There's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.



And last but not least, actual proof that I'm not a sinker.




Nursery School Again

Yesterday was hair cut day. I took *mr. adorable in for his hair cut to a new place because every dog in Vancouver is scheduled for a hair cut right now. When I dropped him off, I felt like I was taking him into his first day of nursery school. It was so weird and so crazy. The poor guy, with hair covering his eyes and silver nail polish on his nails (thanks to the girls) was being forced to socialize with the others. I was so worried because our cut little buddy doesn't see other dogs much.

5 long hours later, we were back rushing to get him before the hour at the beach. In fact, mr. twist couldn't wait to say hello to his best friend, **Curious George the kitten turned dog. Once we got back to the house, mr twist ran in hoping to see dad, who wasn't around and then started looking for the kitten. I told him to give the kitten a kiss and that's what that adorable face did. It made me melt!

Now I can only hope I can either catch them in action or catch mr. twist howling because it's the cutest thing on earth. What I can't believe is how this little guy runs our 33 pounder by jumping onto his ears like George of the jungle. They are quite a riot together. And this is what George looked like the first day I saw him, 7 wks old.
Adorable! While both pets aren't mine, you might as well just say I'm part of their extended family somehow. And I should since I'm around mr twist more than his family.

*mr. adorable - not his real name.
**curious george - not the kittens name either but surely fitting.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Lucern


Lucern
Originally uploaded by thnkfst.
I took this photo last August when we spent a few hours in Lucern checking out the Lion exhibit and old town. It's always fun to go to Lucern for a few hours but I swear there is so much walking in this city that nobody can avoid. Biking is probably the best method of getting closer to everything.

One visit, I went out on one of those paddle boats. We didn't want to go out too far. It was a great way to get further out into the lake for a bit. But actually the best way is to take the Lucern Boat to Vitznau and beyond to places like Brunnen. But that lake is just too cold for me, but views of the Rigi are incredible. (That's if you don't get caught in the summer rain storms.)

Specialized has a funny tv commercial which shoots scenes in the Alps of Switzerland. They are really funny actually which is probably their goal. The theme is yodeling. Has anyone else seen these commercials?

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Happy July 4th


Red White and Blue
Originally uploaded by LeggNet.
Yesterday on flickr, Leggnet posted this incredible image and thought it was appropriate for the day. I guess you need to have steady hands to do something like this.

I hope everyone enjoys the day off. I actually got yesterday off because July 1st in Canada fell on a Saturday. It was nice but I didn't really take off from working. The good news is that we leave this weekend for vacation. And I won't have internet access!

For those of you who have to work today, well I hope you enjoy your evening. I'm watching the tour as we speak. I just love being so connected if I can't be there in person.

Monday, July 03, 2006

Strasbourg to Holland


3 Starfish
Originally uploaded by thnkfst.
That's the race for today and tomorrow. After you guys commented that you need a new boyfriend to cheer for, I knew who the new man could be.

It's George Hincappie of course. He's a great rider, has lots of experience and he's leading Team Discovery.

What more do you need?

I'm already up watching the race today, for Stage Two. The race goes through a few new cities which is always cool. It passes through Luxembourg and tomorrow ends up somewhere near the border of the Netherlands where I've ridden before. So once again, it's got some special meaning to me. I always love biking the back roads of Europe because there are very few cars.

The photo for today I took on Saturday down at Lonsdale Key. It's of 3 starfish gleaming in the water. I loved the distortion.