Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Buon Natale e tutti!
Merry christmas everyone. We're reporting in from the beautiful coastal town of Sorrento just a little south east of Naples (a.k.a. Napoli). We're having a wonderful vacation. We're into the second week and we're now on our own after having finished the structured tour. We met some really nice people from places like Australia, Houston Texas, Malaysia, South Affrica, .... there was even a family from Cornwall with their son was from Kingston. Small World! The tour was really fun: Rome, Florence, Venice, and Sienna. We have many nice pictures and when we get back to Canada we'll put them online for everyone. Now we have rented a car.... a sportscar even: Nissan Micra Cabriolet! Erin thinks it's really zippy like a racecar and you need that here with all the nutty drivers that drive on the line and lay on the horn continuously.... Eric can't really appreciate the the awesomness of this car 'cuz he can't drive standard... what a wuss! We've been through Naples, Pompei and Sorrento... the next stops include Positano, Amalfi and Solerno. Then back to Rome for a night before flying back home. We hope everyone is enjoying the Christmas season. Leave us a comment below if you have any good news. Ciao-ciao!
Thursday, December 14, 2006
14Dec2006meteors
I spent a couple of hours adminiring the 2006 Geminid Meteor Shower last night in my backyard. Despite the conditions not being optimal because I'm in the city, I still saw a grad total of 19 meteors in 2 hours. Not bad. Here's a photo of meteor #16. Cool.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Santa-Christine-2007
We did a really fun activity at work this year: Secret Santa. It was 5 days long and every day we had to do little things for our secret person. My Secret Santa was great. Showering me with gifts like a deck of cards, chocolates, even a winning Navada ticket! Yeehhaaa! To divulge their identity on day 5 they sent me a card. Below is the photo that was within the card. It's a picture of Christine (my Secret Santa) and my Dad! She had found him in the Rideau Centre in Ottawa where he was doing his Santa Gig for the kids. This picture really made my day. Thanks Christine! And thanks Dad for keeping this a secret! HAHA!
Monday, December 11, 2006
Floor Hockey Results
We started the Floor Hockey playoofs in 4th place and we finished the playoffs in 4th place! Yeah! That's better than last year when we finished 5th during the regular season and 7th during the playoffs. It's all about improvement isn't it? (*haha*) So we're going to break now and start the new season on Jan 16th. Time to rest the knees and ankles (*smile*)
Friday, December 01, 2006
We lost!
Yup. We did. In the first round of the floor hockey playoffs last night, our team lost to the 1st place team by a score of 8-4. Sad. However, if you look on the bright side... we came into the playoffs 4th and aren't favoured to win any games at all. So, if we win next week then we will finish 3rd! Stay tuned for next week's update and wish us luck!
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Italy here we come!
December 16th. What's special about Dec 16th? Well...let me tell you. On Dec 16th, Erin and I leave for our Honeymoon to Italy! Wooohooo. Truly the trip of a lifetime. Two weeks! The first week is a structured tour that will stop at Rome, Florence, and Venice. The second week we're going to do it on our own. We're going to see Chrstmas Day mass at St. Peter Square, then we're going to go down to Naples, Pompei by car and down through the Amalfi coast. Awesome! Stay tuned for updates and pictures! Ciao Bellas!
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Field Trip!
People from my work work had a field trip to the Canadian War Museum today. It was awesome. I definately want to go there again. There was so much to see and do and we only scratched the surface. Here's a cool shot of names on the memorial wall in an archway.
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There were several life-like displays. Here's one a fallen soldier in the mud. Scary.
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Hitler's Mercedes. It's black and has bullet holes it in. What an amazing relic of WWII history.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Oh no...it's Borat!
Jen, Alex, Erin and I went to the Borat movie last night. I found some parts funny and some parts offensive. However, I didn't find enough 'funny' parts to really be able to give this movie a stellar rating (despite the fact that it has raked in over 100+ million dollars at the box office already). Maybe my expectations were unrealistic? After watching the Best of Borat on YouTube (22 mins in length) I think I have been exposed to only the 'great' Borat stuff. I haven't seen the mediocre stuff. Hmmm. If you haven't seen the Movie yet, then wait for it to come out as a rental. If you haven't seen the Best of Borat on YouTube then what are you waiting for. It's hilarious! 'Hail Supreme Warlord Premier George Walter Bush!'
Friday, November 17, 2006
We're Hip in Montreal!
Road Trip to Montreal to see th Tragically Hip. CJ, Erin and I trucked up on Friday Nov 10th, right after work and all the effort to get there paid off: the concert was awesome! Best concert I have ever seen the Hip put on. Hands down! And we've seen a lot of Hip concerts... between the three of us we have seen 18 concerts! Erin-7, Eric-6, Julie-5.... yup...we're big fans!
They rocked the 2000+ crowd with all your favorites. Wow they had energy! The crowd was hyped and friendly and the bartenders slung beer like profesionals! (I like that!) The club we saw them in was awesome. The Metropolis is a three-tiered concert hall and no matter where you were you had a great view of the action. Here's one pic, more can be found on my Flickr account here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/60653418@N00/sets/72157594380676791/
They rocked the 2000+ crowd with all your favorites. Wow they had energy! The crowd was hyped and friendly and the bartenders slung beer like profesionals! (I like that!) The club we saw them in was awesome. The Metropolis is a three-tiered concert hall and no matter where you were you had a great view of the action. Here's one pic, more can be found on my Flickr account here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/60653418@N00/sets/72157594380676791/
Wedding Pictures are IN!
The wedding pictures are in. I've uploaded them all to my Flickr account. Check out the Wedding set at this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/60653418@N00/sets/72157594355388657/
Yeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Yeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Monday, November 06, 2006
AngelsHalloween
Thanks to Mustafa, one picture has been found of our Angels costumes from the Wolfe Island Halloween party. It's not the greatest pic, but it gives you an idea of why we came 4th ;-)
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
More Halloween Pictures!
Hot off the presses... another 13 pictures from our work Halloween Party. Check them out on my Flickr Site. Here's the direct link to the Halloween 2006 set of pictures. We rocked!!!
a halloween kiss for u
Here's the first shot of our prize winning Hallowe'en Team at work... actually this shot is from Mark's camera (via his Flickr account). More shots to follow. Can you guess who I am?
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Halloween on Wolfe Island
Friday night was another display of diabolic costuming by the residents of Wolfe Island. The General Wolfe Hotel hosted another successful Halloween Party with the soundtrack provided by our good friends RWI. (They played at our wedding!) Let me set the scene. Last year... Erin was shut out of the pirzes for the first time in 3 years! So this year, she worked on her constume. She was a black angel. Complete with full-sized feathered wings and black fuzzy halo. It was awesome. I joined her in similar garb, except I was the white angel! My costume was aided by Dr. Merry's closet: I 'borrowed' a classy white leather belt and some lovely Rockport geriatric cream shoes. Too funny! Now, I know a picture is worth a thousand words; however, we were having such a good time we g=forgot to take a picture of ourselves. DAMMIT! Mustafa was taking pictures, so we'll try to work on him to get a picture of us. We looked really neat... neat enough to win a prize!!!! We won 4th prize (honorable mention). YEAH! Erin is vindicated HAHAHAHAHA
Ok, well, the story isn't finished yet. We haven't even mentioned Julie. Well, crazy as usual when it comes to Halloween costumes, she worked very hard on building a constume that represented Avian Flu. Picture it: white bathrobe, trimmed with fluffy white feathers, yellow felt cone hat, feathers flying out of it, yellow rubber gloves strapped to her feet and a medical mask on her face. Jeeeeeez! Now picture this: Julie was basically falling on the floor coughing all night at the bar. HAHAHA! It was totally gross. BUT....it totally WON! She won 1st Place in this year's costume constest! WOWOWOWOWOW! Amazing. Great night on the Island overall!
Now we had a good time dressing Julie up before the party so we do have a picture of her. Check it out below.
Ok, well, the story isn't finished yet. We haven't even mentioned Julie. Well, crazy as usual when it comes to Halloween costumes, she worked very hard on building a constume that represented Avian Flu. Picture it: white bathrobe, trimmed with fluffy white feathers, yellow felt cone hat, feathers flying out of it, yellow rubber gloves strapped to her feet and a medical mask on her face. Jeeeeeez! Now picture this: Julie was basically falling on the floor coughing all night at the bar. HAHAHA! It was totally gross. BUT....it totally WON! She won 1st Place in this year's costume constest! WOWOWOWOWOW! Amazing. Great night on the Island overall!
Now we had a good time dressing Julie up before the party so we do have a picture of her. Check it out below.
Julia flu
Avian Flu from the front (without the hat and face mask). Check out the very gross makeup on Julie. Bleck!!!
Angels and liquid paper
Ok, so here's the only tiny related picture to our Angel constume. I've got the halo on, but niether of us have the wings on...boohooo!
Monday, October 23, 2006
We're Marrrrrrrrrrrrrried
---Eric signing in---
Yup. We are. Married. Yup. Yes. Uh-huh. Did it. Done. And boy was it fun! It was soooo fun. I'm so tired now though, I don't have the energy to give the entire story. (Hey... NEWSFLASH... if you are reading this, have energy and went to the wedding... click the 'comment' word below and leave your story! It would be much appreciated.) As the photos come rolling in, I'll also post tons of them online both here and on my Flickr account. If you've got a particularly good picture, please email it to me. I'd love to have them.
Thanks to everyone that made our day great. Without all of you, it wouldn't have been the success it was. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
---Eric signing out---
---Erin signing in---
HI everyone,this is Erin. Mrs. Eric Tremblay, yahoo! Well officially it is Mrs. Erin Merry but it's still cool! Thanks to all our wonderful friends for making it such an awesome day, the only day in 3 weeks it did not rain or snow! Eric is amazing and now we are both tired. Looking forward to seeing RWI on Wolfe Island for Halloween this Friday night! Thanks again everyone, we love you! Love you long time (as Jen would say!) xoxoxo
---Erin signing out---
--Jack and Winston signing in---
**woof** **woof**
---Jack and Winston Signin out---
PS: After 1:30am, somehow the band looked a little different. Hmmmm.
Yup. We are. Married. Yup. Yes. Uh-huh. Did it. Done. And boy was it fun! It was soooo fun. I'm so tired now though, I don't have the energy to give the entire story. (Hey... NEWSFLASH... if you are reading this, have energy and went to the wedding... click the 'comment' word below and leave your story! It would be much appreciated.) As the photos come rolling in, I'll also post tons of them online both here and on my Flickr account. If you've got a particularly good picture, please email it to me. I'd love to have them.
Thanks to everyone that made our day great. Without all of you, it wouldn't have been the success it was. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
---Eric signing out---
---Erin signing in---
HI everyone,this is Erin. Mrs. Eric Tremblay, yahoo! Well officially it is Mrs. Erin Merry but it's still cool! Thanks to all our wonderful friends for making it such an awesome day, the only day in 3 weeks it did not rain or snow! Eric is amazing and now we are both tired. Looking forward to seeing RWI on Wolfe Island for Halloween this Friday night! Thanks again everyone, we love you! Love you long time (as Jen would say!) xoxoxo
---Erin signing out---
--Jack and Winston signing in---
**woof** **woof**
---Jack and Winston Signin out---
PS: After 1:30am, somehow the band looked a little different. Hmmmm.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Poker Stag Night!
Last night was very, very… I mean VERY fun. To my surprised my poker crew organized a little bit of a different poker night. First off there were 3 people in attendance, which were out of context, Big Al, Mike and Rob from Floor hockey were there. Very cool! Flo, Seb, Tracey, Leo, Alex B. (aka Little Alex)… the regulars…. were there. So I got there and we broke out the girlie cards…. They just added an extra dimension of fun to the game…. Personally, I’ll never look at the 8 of clubs the same way again HAAHAHAHA! (but I digress...)
Now, the poker setup included two new prizes. Bottles of Booze! Crown Royal and a Dark Rum. Nice! Seb started the evening by declaring that the poker pot would be split 70%-30% among the top two winners and those two winners would also each get one bottle of booze. Neat twist I thought. I still don’t know who sprung for the booze. Whoever did… many thanks!!! Anyway, as usually the game unfolded beautifully. Lots of ‘all ins’ near the end too. I love it. I made it to the top three and the game came to a grinding halt. Seb declared that it was time to reveal the true guise of the evening. It turns out that before I arrived, everyone decided that whatever the outcome of the game, I would get the full pot! HOLY SHIT! ... I mean HOLY WOW! ... was I ever humbled by this. It was a very nice gesture of my friends to do (and if any of you are reading this…. I thank you very much…I really appreciate the sentiment…. The pot cash went right into our honeymoon fund). This wasn’t a trivial amount of money either. It had grown with the nightly buy-ins to $205! Holy Smokes. Nice Pot! The game resumed. I promptly went “all in” and lost. Congrats to Little Alex (1st) and Leo (2nd) who brought home the hard liquor! Yeehaaa! Thanks again everyone!!!! I cheers my Stripper Mug to you!
Now, the poker setup included two new prizes. Bottles of Booze! Crown Royal and a Dark Rum. Nice! Seb started the evening by declaring that the poker pot would be split 70%-30% among the top two winners and those two winners would also each get one bottle of booze. Neat twist I thought. I still don’t know who sprung for the booze. Whoever did… many thanks!!! Anyway, as usually the game unfolded beautifully. Lots of ‘all ins’ near the end too. I love it. I made it to the top three and the game came to a grinding halt. Seb declared that it was time to reveal the true guise of the evening. It turns out that before I arrived, everyone decided that whatever the outcome of the game, I would get the full pot! HOLY SHIT! ... I mean HOLY WOW! ... was I ever humbled by this. It was a very nice gesture of my friends to do (and if any of you are reading this…. I thank you very much…I really appreciate the sentiment…. The pot cash went right into our honeymoon fund). This wasn’t a trivial amount of money either. It had grown with the nightly buy-ins to $205! Holy Smokes. Nice Pot! The game resumed. I promptly went “all in” and lost. Congrats to Little Alex (1st) and Leo (2nd) who brought home the hard liquor! Yeehaaa! Thanks again everyone!!!! I cheers my Stripper Mug to you!
Friday, October 06, 2006
Floor Hockey Update!
Oh man was last night's game awesome. It came down to a tie... 6-6. Everyone played awesome and special credit has to go out to Erin, Michelle and Melissa. Only 3 girls showed up for the game and these 3 played like professionals. Having many shots of goal and orchestrating several amazing defensive plays. Kudos to the girls!!!
PS: Special thanks to the waitress at the Rose & Crown in the township. The snacks were yummy!
PS: Special thanks to the waitress at the Rose & Crown in the township. The snacks were yummy!
Monday, September 25, 2006
Floor Hockey is BACK!
Question: What happens when 14 of the city's most elite floor hockey athletes gather together and submit a team to the Kingston Sport and Social Club?
Answer: I wouldn't know. Instead 14 of us got together to submit a team. We're not the city's elite floor hockey people but we have a lot of fun. AND.... I think we might just do quite well this year. With the addition of Tracey (who had a goal in her 1st game), Mark (who had 2 goals in his 1st game), Glen (who backstopped us to Victory!), and Cathy and Georgia (they missed game #1 so we'll see their stuff in Game 2), I think we're poised to do well this Fall season.
First game: Win 12-5.
Stay tuned for updates on the next game.
Answer: I wouldn't know. Instead 14 of us got together to submit a team. We're not the city's elite floor hockey people but we have a lot of fun. AND.... I think we might just do quite well this year. With the addition of Tracey (who had a goal in her 1st game), Mark (who had 2 goals in his 1st game), Glen (who backstopped us to Victory!), and Cathy and Georgia (they missed game #1 so we'll see their stuff in Game 2), I think we're poised to do well this Fall season.
First game: Win 12-5.
Stay tuned for updates on the next game.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
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Homecoming 2006 was a great time! Julie came down from Belleville and we whooped it up. Here's Julie and I walking the in the Aberdeen Street party with our jackets. The frosh loved us! (Special thank to Erin for letting us use her camera.... I wouldn't take my camera into this crazy party! YIKES!) The party went surprisingly well I thought. The cops had the streets barricaded very well. Volunteer alumni went up and down the street collecting beer bottles to minimize glass on the road. Free water and cups were distributed by volunteers and from a special tent on the street. Everyone was really organized and that made things seem a lot safer this year. Kudos to everyone who worked hard, including the dozens of cops we saw out last night. The crowd was estimated at over 8,000+ people! WOW!
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CHEERS!!!!!!!! Some big whigs came out to party too. Here's Mayor Harvey Rosen partying with the best of them. Way to go BigHarv!
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It was wall-to-wall people on Aberdeen Street! Here's the intersection of Aberdeen and William Streets.
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Whe're not sure why there was a bagel participating in the street party this year? However, Homecomming doesn't discriminate! Go bagel Go!
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Julie and I went to the homecoming football game. The Gaels lost a close on 22-18 to a great Windsor Lancers team. The weather was great and the students were out in full force. Here's a shot of the stands on the student side.
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As per normal, the students rushed the field at half time and proceded to beat their jackets on the group. It was chaos. Luckily it only lasted about 5 minutes and things were quickly brought back to order in time for the second half of the game.
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The cheerleaders were awesome. I wish I would have had my camera with me for the game. The camera this photo was taken with is Erin's. It's a good point and shoot camera 9don't get me wrong); however, with my Canon 30D I could have really taken great shots of these cheerleaders. They flipped and tossed each other in the air like crazy the entire game (so it's a photographer's field day!) but I could never really get a well timed shot with this point and shoot camera. This is the best one I could get.
Friday, September 15, 2006
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Erin and I went out last night to take some night pics of the Fall fair. Here's my best one. It's the Ferris Wheel. Cool!
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Here's the stop light at the intersection of Consession and Alfred. Six second exposure.... timed perfectly thanks to Erin on the stop watch!
Friday, September 08, 2006
FroshWeek1
We're moving offices at work and I had a little spare time during the day to mosey on down to Queen's University to see what the Frosh are up to this year. After spending an hour down at city park, it pretty much looks like the same stuff we used to do when I was a Frosh. It may not be new, but it's still VERY VERY VERY fun! These guys and girs were really having a good time. Here's a few shots I took to capture the moment! Cha-Gheill!
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
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Erin and I were walking the dogs tonight and I decided to bring my camera. Here's a cool shot of tail lights of a car going up Alfred Street. I took this shot by setting my camera down on the sidewalk.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Friday, September 01, 2006
DogTrials-12Aug06
Erin and I and the puppies went to the Sheep Dog Trials. This picture isn't of a sheep dog. It's of a standard poople. The dog was the winner in the high jump contest. Check out the winning jump. WOW! That's more than 3 times this dog's height! Amazing!
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At the Sheep Sog Trials, I couldn't help but notice this swallow's nest. Mainly because it had a very vocal and large baby pearing out from it. Notice the food on it's face! HAHA! Cute!
Wedding Bells are Ringing
Most of you know this by now; however, just in case you're not in the loop: the wedding date has been set for Oct 21st! It's a Wolfe Island Wedding with special guests RWI! YEAH! Be there or be square.
Monday, August 28, 2006
74 Nelson Street
Holy moly! It's been seven days since I bought my second rental property at 74 Nelson Street. I've been working like a dog, so has my friend Joe and so has Erin in helping to get it ready for students to move in this week! Yikes! Electrical, plumbing, garbage cleanup, gutter repairs, painting, ventilation, etc. But it's going to be awesome!!! This beauty is going to be worth a lot of money when I retire ;-) Pics to follow.
Monday, August 07, 2006
McGill-cartoon
Erin and I were at McGill for the day.... way back on the 23rd of May and I snapped this picture of a cartoon drawn on the side of a limestone building. It should have a caption: McGill University - Institute of Higher Education. HAHAHA!
Dragonfly at the Cottage
My boss was nice enough to lend me his Sigma 120-500mm lens. I spent the day at the cottage giving it a work out and trying to see what it could do. Here's a cool pic of a dragonfly on a tree branch in silhouette. Neat.
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