Whacky hair day!!

Our finest rush attempt at Whoville hair.
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Bethan passed her first gold!!

No more skills ever again. AND she passed her dance test so she is half through her Junior Silver Dances. Great Night for B.

Guess where we are going Nov19?

Who's your Daddy!!!??!?!?!!

Sunday afternoon 17 stories above Los Angeles

I am in the Penthouse restaurant of a round hotel tower overlooking
Bel Air, UCLA, the San Diego freeway and in the distance the Pacific
Ocean.

In the restaurant there is a small group doing covers - they are quite good.
A dreadknought, bass, keyboards and light percussion.

It's pretty cool sitting here watching over this immense city with
music instead of the roar of traffic like in NYC.

Go onto google maps, view the satellite images to see how huge this
city is. It goes on forever across an old river delta. Pretty
awesome.

John McGarr
Strategist | Managing Director
Fresh Squeezed Ideas Inc.
1-416-235-0909 X105

We're not in Kansas, Toto

Into the valley

I snapped this pic from the plane as we flew past Las Vegas toward Los Angeles.

The hottest hotel bar I have ever seen

"Rush" at the Chicago Marriott.
Look at this crazy light tornado

Hey Blogger Boy!

Waiting for posts here at home base.........

Check out Betty's popart project - hard to pick it up clearly with the BB but there were no batteries in the camera and time was tight this morning.

Weekly highlights..............
Betty got 6 overhand serves successfully over the net at Thunder last night AND was moving all over the court at Sunningdale VB - keep it up Betty!
Dee got 2 honourable mentions at choir for her singing and memorizing - go songbird!

I am on my way home

I had a monster for dinner!

Oh Mr. Moooooonster!

This is a monkfish.
It is as ugly in person as it looks here.

But pan roasted with some garlic, spanish paprika and chilies......Ooooh baby!  That's monster-lickin'-good!

Close encounters

While sitting at a cafe tonight, a gypsy beggar came up to our table
mumbling in Spanish. We ignored her hoping she would go away.
Determined, she put a paper sign on the table, which presumably
contained her message. But she was standing erect - not bent at the
waist as you might expect.
Then I noticed that her sign was covering my iPhone, which was sitting
on the table. She was trying to palm it.
So I slipped my hand under hers and grabbed my phone, before telling
her to VAMOS!
Close call.

Haagen-Dazs Fondue

Santa Maria! It's a royal idea!

Brunch

Goat cheese and spinach salad.
Mmmmmm.

Kurt Browning in Oakville AND in hockey skates!

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Finished!!

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B at the start line...finally!

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Casa Mila "La Pedrera"

La Pedrera means "The Quarry"

This is the one building I did not see the last time I was in
Barcelona. It has crazy curvy walls on the outside - all carved from
stone. The rooftop is famous for the wonderful shapes and treatment
of it's fixtures.
Enjoy!

This is one of the stairheads.  It covers the spiral staircase.  It also has a water storage tank inside.

These are chimney tops.  They are like helmets with eye holes.  They are decorated in broken green glass bottles, instead of tiles.

Another stairhead.  You can see how big they are.

This is a picture from the rooftop terrace, overlooking Barcelona. You can see the stairhead on the left, and off in the distance on the right is the Sagrada Familia (that crazy church from the last time).

Here is a great shot of the whole roof top terrace. You can see some of those chimney tops - but undecorated. The whole roof has different levels - you have to go up and down a few steps to get from one section to the other. Its amazing up there.

Casa Mila has an atrium in the middle to let light into the apartments. This is one of the things that made Gaudi very famous.

Look familiar?

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Enjoying a Friday night at the Lion On The Beach!

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Ham avalanche

Walking

There is a nice boulevard to walk up and down.

Barcelona architecture

All the apartments are very beautiful in this area of the city.

I have arrived in Barcelona

I love it here.
It is so clean and beautiful.
And look at my snack.
The Spanish know how to make a pig taste so good.

All things volleyball!!!!!

So Bethan made both the school team and the rep team, Oakville Thunder!! She was so pleased. Go Betty.

For Maddie with love from Petra

Big hugs from her to all if you.

downer dog at the bustop!

petra

i remember petra!!!!!!!!! mommy said i sang leaving on a jet plane for her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flippin' Jackrobat!

Apparently Jack saw a couple of hot girls in the hallway at school yesterday and in an effort to capture their attention he decided to do a back tuck in the hallway!! They thought it was cool. I am guessing when we get a call from the school about his antics, it won't be so cool. But if that wasn't enough, he threw one again in the Science classroom.....while the teacher was out. Out of control highschool kid!

Petra is here in Milan!!!

I just saw her in the hallway.  Big hugs!

Tete de Veau

Translate that!

For dessert

A loaf of creme caramel, a bucket of lemon meringue, stewed prunes,
pears in red wine and rice pudding.

morning daddy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(if its morning when you read this) how was youre sleep

We All Miss You Daddy!!!!

its the same as usual here. however that parade you posted looked pretty cool i just woke up. its 7:30 am here and theres a thunder storm coming on. daisy went kinda crazy. were all sad witout you




deedstarr

The Parade

Birthday cake and butter tarts!

Bare Bones

My hotel room is so cheap, it doesnt even come with soap.  No shampoo either.  And only one towel.
I had to go to the front desk and get all sinister looking in order to intimidate the guy enough to go looking.  He looked in a box behind the telephone, with all the rubber bands and paper clips.  I gather he doesnt get a lot of requests for soap or conditioner.
No wonder Europeans smell when they travel.

Hello from Lyon

I arrived safely in Lyon after a very bumpy flight from Toronto to
Frankfurt. Despite being in a sleeping berth, I hardly slept because
of the turbulence. I did have some rather dark thoughts, I must
admit.
The line to get through Frankfurt airport was hot and smelly because
Lufthansa is offering €29 flights - so it was packed. I only had
minutes to spare.
I got into Lyon on a beautiful sunny day. A dance group is putting on
a day-long parade which shut down Place Bellcour. My cabbie dropped
men on the wrong side of the parade. I was cut off from my hotel, so
I had to get another taxi to get me there.
I am completely exhausted but am going for dinner with my client. I
had a stroll around to get me bearings. Now I am trying not to fall
asleep... Which is very hard.
I do have free wifi in my hotel, so I can use that.

Proud Momma

Team Ontario gold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BC tradition complete with foggy mountains

Who shrunk Maddie??

Snow tips-top left corner at Sun Peaks