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.

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!

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!

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.

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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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17Sept2006-BigHarvBeer, originally uploaded by actionhamster.

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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17Sept2006-Aberdeen, originally uploaded by actionhamster.

It was wall-to-wall people on Aberdeen Street! Here's the intersection of Aberdeen and William Streets.

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17Sept2006Aberdeen2, originally uploaded by actionhamster.

People were everywhere, even hanging off the roof!

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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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17Sept2006-HomecomingFootball3, originally uploaded by actionhamster.

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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17Sept2006-HomecomingFootball2, originally uploaded by actionhamster.

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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17Sept2006-HomecomingFootball1, originally uploaded by actionhamster.

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.

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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!

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The Kingston water tower from MacDonnell Street (North of Consession).

FroshWeek1

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

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!

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

Now, this.... this is a SUPER SOAKER people!

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My favourite: The Mud Pit!

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Frosh receiving instructions on strategy for the grease pole trial the next day!

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Being taped to a soccer goal post was never so fun! Go Queen's!

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Does this girl remind you of Cindy Lauper?

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Awww....cute!

Cars_on_Alfred-06Sept2006

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

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.

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

Here a photography experiment with Erin's clock radio. Cool.

DogTrials-12Aug06

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

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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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

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.

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.

Angus

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

Erin & Julie

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

Mackenzie-Julie-Angus

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

Mackenzie

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

Mackenzie

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

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

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

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.

Siobhan Photo Shoot

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

Siobhan is 9 months pregnant. In fact she's due any day now! YEAH!!!! To celebrate the coming of their baby, both she and Cory wanted some photos to remeber the moment by. So we met twice and here are a sampling of some of the best shots. I think they looks classy in black and white too.

Siobhan 9 Months Pregnant

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

Siobhan Laughing

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Siobhan's Silhouette

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

Siobhan and Cory

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

Here's a great 'artsy'-type shot of Siobhan and Cory. Very cool!

Sailing on the Lake!

We had a really fun day sailing on Lake Ontario with Scott on Thursday. Alex, Jen, Michelle, Erin and I joined Scott on his 24' Shark sailboat. The wind was wild so we were leaning over pretty good in the morning out to Milton Island. I was scared crapless too! It's only my second time on a sailboat and the first one was 30' long and a calm day. So this was a first for me! Scott assured me that the sharks are un-tippable unless the waves are 5 feet high!

So, once on Milton Island (which is a Provincial campground beleive it or not) we spent a few hours swimming, eating and generally having fun in the sun. The sail back to town turned out to be more of a motor boat ride as the white caps on the lake were getting pretty high and the boat was going up and down like crazy as we rode the waves. So we took out time and let the 5 hp motor get us home. YEAH!

Erin went to bed at 7pm and slept 11 hours! What a tired girl (*haha*)

Michelle's New Puppy

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

As promissed here are some pictures of the new pet additions. First is Michelle's new puppy dog. We call her "Flo" but she's really not offcially named yet. She had fun at Lemoine Point with jack and Winston and here's a picture of her posing on the picnic table. Super cute!

Jen+Alex+Kitten=FUN!

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Originally uploaded by actionhamster.

Hot off the presses! Here's a picture of Jen and Alex's new baby girl. She's super duper cute. Dontcha think? ;-) She doesn't have a name yet I don't think. Once it's finalized Jen will post it here as a comment I'm sure (*smile*)

New pets!

WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I said WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Erin and I have no new pets! No.... no pets.... new petless! The title to this msg does not mean that Erin and I have any new pets. We have lots already!

Alex and Jen have a new pet kitten (name to be announced! Something British!) and Michelle has a new pet puppy-dog (named Flo). Pictures are forthcoming.

Who will be the next person to fall into the pet aquisition addition trap? Stay tuned for details!

FINALLY: The pics are in from the cottage!

Juding from the pics below.... we certainly had a good time!!!

Ah.... holidays feel soooooooooooo good!

Erin and I had a great week off last week. We spent it at the Cottage in Tamworth. Totally technology free: no emails, no web-surfing, no online games, no MSN, no blogger either! hahaha

The first weekend was ultra fun. Loads of our friends joined us for a fun weekend in the sun. We swam, ate yummy BBQ'ed foods, played poker, drank beers and even boated a bit! I've got a bunch of pictures that I haven't yet downloaded off my camera but I will very soon. I'm sure I've got some good ones there. Stay tuned!!!