On the road again…

We are off to Edmonton and Calgary for the next week.
Janine is delivering a paper at the University of Alberta, and the boys and I get to play at the largest mall in North America, 3rd largest in the world at that!  Ok so I have sorta turned the boys into mall rats, but in [...]

Cultured Kiwi Kids

I took the kids to the UBC Museum of Anthropology this afternoon. It has a spectacular collection of totem poles (Jamie’s new favourite thing) and indigenous art and artifacts from BC. The kids were doing some very satisfying ‘ooohing’ and ‘aaahing’ as we walked through the great hall of totem polls and looked through the [...]

Adult grumble time…

Could someone please explain to me why Bob the Builder needs to be over dubbed with American voice actors?
Bob and Wendy have the most annoying accents. Is it too much for these people to get it that there are other people out there with different accents.  Walkie Talkies are also turned into Talkie Talkies?  [...]

The blog has gremblins

For those of you trying to follow the link on the right hand side in the Blogroll to our Flickr pics, you are going to b poorly led astray.  Follow this link instead.  There are more pics there than we post here. – Paul
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56231642@N00/

SOS – cheat notes for bookclub!

So, I have joined a bookclub. It is organised here on campus, and seems to be mostly women on faculty. First meeting was last night and it was a delight to spend time talking with humans with significantly less testosterone than those that live in my house! The hitch is that I still don’t have [...]

Gymboree

Jamie has been attending ‘gymboree’ which is a pre-school program. It is a great way for him to get to play with other kids before he starts preschool on campus next month. He just loves it – some photos are attached of the play facilities they have. It is a two hour drop off program [...]

Photos of home away from home

Hi all – photos of the apartment attached. Check us out in a finished house!
The master bedroom

Jamie’s bed

Charlie’s bed

Lounge

Lounge and deck

Kitchen and entrance

Kitchen and dining

Bathroom

Fireworks finale

I hope you guys are all connected at the moment to KatKam and taking in the fireworks finale.
Stunning evening here, probably still about 20°C and they’re expecting anywhere between 500,000 and 750,000 people down along the beaches watching the fireworks.
some background info on the fireworks from the middle of the bay
Two sand-covered barges anchored [...]

Life at UBC

Those of you who have followed the excruciatingly slow progress of our house building will be most amused by how quickly and wholeheartedly we have thrown ourselves into setting up our Vancouver apartment. It is official – this apartment is now a more complete home than Baleburn! We will add some photos soon.
Life on campus [...]

Varsity Bums

Hey all,
we are now living on campus at UBC, and this will be our base for the rest of the year.  We have a couple of side trips to do, Calgary/Edmonton, Victoria and Paul will be off to a conference in Boston and taking in a couple of days in NY, but aside from that [...]