Jack loves the cottage. After a hard day of playing, he's crashed while hugging his stuffed pelican. What a tough guy! 

Here's probably the most amazing peice of naturally formed art I have ever seen. It's a 25 foot high rock formation that looks exactly like a native man's face. The aquiline nose, the mouth and the eye are all clearly visible here. Lori named this formation "Geronimo's Head." Cool! Remember you can click any of these pictures to make them 'bigger' 

Check out this cool Otter Skull. Blair Witch baby! Erin's scared at the cottage at night and this skull doesn't help (*evil grin*) 

Shhh... it's a surprise

Jen's turning 30 soon. Alex is organizing a suprise birthday trip to the Dominican Replublic for her. Shhh.. keep it a secret. The surprise will be amazing!!! WOW! I wish my boyfriend was as good as Alex!!! ... er... wait... that came out wrong (*grin*)

U.S. Marines Silent Drill Corps

Erin and I went to see the U.S. Marines Silent Drill Corps perform with the Fort Henry Guard last Saturday. It was very cool. The Marines are very impressive. They are very precise and very disciplined you can see. I can barely brush my teeth to specifications and these guys throw working rifles backwards over their heads! YIKES!

Papillon Fried Chicken

Jackie loves KFC! HAHA! 

The Trews

The Trews concert in the Festival of the Islands was AWESOME! A couple beers set up the night for Julie, Erin and I. We were treated to some heavy duty high energy rock & roll. Mark my words... "These guys will be famous someday!" It was a quality concert! 

Drums!

The five minute drum solo was reminiscent of John Bonham from Led Zepellin. I loved it! 

The Taste Tells!

Here's a picture of the old Riverside Brewery near my mom's place. It's an awesome building. Riverside Brewery: "The Taste Tells!" Click on the picture to see it close up. 

Jack loves to sleep!

Jack fell asleep in the back window of the car on the way home from Windsor. How cute is this?!?! 

Dee-Troit!

Dee-Troit Hockey is BACK! We just spent a day trying not to get mugged, assaulted or otherwise mained in Detroit. I got a chane to stop by Francois place and check it out. He's working hard on the thing. Looking good. We enjoyed the swim and spending time with his two super cute kitty cats! Simba and Nala! Jeez. Erin think's she has a picture of them! More to follow when I get back to K-town.

Erin had some dificulty crossing the border because she didn't have her birth certificate .... dicey! But she sweet talked the guy real good ;-)

Windsor here we come!

We're in Windsor and we're having a great time. My mom's backyard is like a tropical paradise! (Insert photos when we get back to K-town)

Beer + Fest = Awesome

My vacation kicked off right!!! Erin, Jack and I rolled into Toronto for the weekend and met up with a bunch of Erin's old friends from MacMaster and we spent the majority of Saturday afternoon and evening at the 10th Annual Toronto Beer Festival. (Well, not Jackie... he's too little.) The day was sunny and hot, the beer fest was packed and exciting, the beer was yummy and cold! What a dream combination. Approximately 14 beers, one BBQ beef on a bun, two corn cobs, two beer ice cream, two games of foozball, one SteamWhistle beer case cut-out for my head as a hat, one running jump into a bunch of piled up beanbag chairs and one cheese stick later, we all felt AMAZING!

This is definitely something we'll be doing again next year! Long live beer!

10 down 2 to go

I got my mark back from my 10th Masters course at the university of Phoenix and I just squeaked out an A by 0.5% YIKES! But it's an "A" nonetheless. It keeps the streak going!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (*Eric does a little dance*)

Four Loons travelling together on the lake! Awesome! 

We spent a wonderful weekend at the cottage. The sunrise around the point was beautiful. The water was so warm, you can almost see the steam on the lake in this picture. 

Erin Stikes Again!

What do you get if you mix one part beautiful girl, one part caring spirit, one part smartie-pants with two parts fun? EASY! You get Erin Merry. Have I told my Internet readers how much I love her today? Well, if not here it is: I love her! She surprised me with flowers today. She's soooooooooo sweet!

Fighting like Cats and Dogs!

Jack and Stirling love each other and they love to wrestle with each other 24 hours a days. WAIT... I'm obviously exagerating. There are times when they take breaks. Here's a photo of them during intermission (*grin*) 

My 10th Tea Party Concert!

The Tea Party never disapoint! They rolled into k-town and played a great show at Stages. It was fitting that it was Stages because that's where I first saw them in 1993 with Yvonne. 12 years ago! WOW! So, Julie and I went super-early to make sure we got front row and baby did we ever!!! WOW! Erin joined us a bit later and we had a great time. I got super loaded and had to leave my car downtown (hee hee). Here's to the next 10 Tea Party concerts! Jeff always love playing to the Crowd!!! 

Stuart looking intense! 

Jeff and Stuart 

Jef playing the Indian Instruments 

Nice 

Jeff bows the Guitar .... reminiscent of Jimmy Page! 

Ok, he is SUPER CUTE!!!!!!!!! Both ears up! YEAH Jackie! 

My little boy is growing up so fast!

I came home from work today and both of Jackie's ears are standing up straight now. Oh my goodness he's growing up fast. (*haha*) We went to the vet for a well puppy physical and I was please to see that he weighs 1.7 kg (3.75 lbs). That's up from 2.8 lbs on June 20th! Wow he's getting big!!! HAHA!

Jackie loves grass!

Jackie is so small that he gets lost in the grass in the backyard. Too cute!  

One ear up! Cute! 

Jack is HERE!

Ok, so how cute is THIS!!! Meet Jack.... he's my new manly puppy dog! A 9-week old Papillon puppy. He's the ultra cutest thing I've seen in a long time. Robbers beware... he's likely to be a great guarddog too! hahaha! He currently weighs about 3 lbs and he's likely to max out around 7 or 8 lbs. If you want to see a bunch of pictures of what this breed looks like as an adult check out this link The breeder told us that the ears raise up at around the 14 week mark. Too cute!!!

Jack and Erin 

Happy Canada Day in Ottawa

We headed up to Dickson's in Ottawa for a rocking good time on Canada Day. The drinks flowed, the food appeared (and I'm talking heavy duty food...two types of jerked chicken slow cooked on a charcoal BBQ and then pork souvlaki... we basically ate all day!!!), the people were great, and the fire works were amazing. We watching them from an abandonned railway bridge near the Lemieux Island Water Treatment Facility. I had never been there and it was really an adventure!

Thanks Dickson and Kristen for the hospitality!!!

Friday night = classic

[Fade into scene - Erin waking up 6:30am and walking downstairs into the Office. Eric already there, playing with her new PalmPilot.]

Erin - Are you playing with my new PalmPilot?
Eric - um... no.

[Eric with big smile. Erin giggles and picks up her phone. Dials into her answering machine. Listens and laughs.]

Erin - Well, Jen just called. Guess what she said on her message "Erin, did you ever get the cops called on you by the neighbours while you lived here? Well, I did. I wonder if it's the first time."

(Laughing)

['nuff said! Happy B-day Alex!]

We had a fun party at Lori Payne's Friday afternoon. A kind of feel good celebration of our accomplishments as a division. Here's a pic of our CDU group before changing clothes and hitting the pool! Erika looks so cute pregnant! 

Sloan at Stages!

Sloan played at Stages Friday night and of course we were there. Julie and Michlle joined us too! After a beverage at the Toucan, Vanessa was nice enough to drive us to Stages. The concert rocked. We were right up close to the stage. They kicked it off in awesome fashion with 4 of their sweetest tracks, mellowed it out in the middle and then brought it home in the end with 4 more awesome cuts! They're a musically talented band I tell you. The lead singer Chris is just awesome. He sang, played guitar, played bass and played the drums throughout the night. Wow!

I saw Pauline, Pauline the prettiest girl you've ever seen there too. What a coincidence! She was there with her daughter April. they were rockin' out too! Great night all around. I bought my Tea Party tickets for Friday July 15th too! YEAH! That will be the 10th time I see the Tea Party in concert! Woooooooohoooooooo!

Tragedy at my House!

Short version:

Dog snapped and bit the cat. Cat went to the vet for 5 days. Barely lived. Dog is gone back to the rescue agency. We can't trust him. Sad.

Tom Green & Eggs... no Ham

Friday was wet and wild! Erin, Tiff, Wayne and I went down to the Elixir to see Tom Green. It turned out to be one of the best times in a long time at a bar. Firstly, Wayne was pumped from the get go. He's a big Tom Green fan and knows his old stuff from when he had a rap band named Organized Rhyme. I had never herd of Organized Rhyme, but I do know that one song "Check the O.R." (the link has the lyrics and a link to the mp3). So they did a bunch of funny rap stuff and the crowd was nuts. They they proceded to cook some eggs. Yes...you read that right...cooking eggs on stage. Then the chanting started "What do you do when someone gives you a plate?" ... and the crowd replied in unison: "You eat the f*cking eggs!" Wow.... is this a cult? How did they know that? I don't have all the answers...but it was quite funny. Tom crowd surfed twice. I copped a feel both times. Pretty cool. They did other pre-pubescent things like throwing stuffed animals *AT* the crowd .... and spraying whipped cream in a can on people's heads. At one point Wayne got on the stage and was doing this ultra-silly dance that supposedly comes from the old Organized Rhyme days. It was hilarious how badly Tiff was embarassed by this HAHAHA! The crowd loved it!!!

So half way through the show we had "to do something that's never been done in the history of Hip-Hop." We had to sit on the floor cross-legged for 5 minutes and listen to whale music. I'm serious... whale music. And the entire bar did it... even the bouncers. Wild. I nevre thought I would sit on the floor of a bar for 5 minutes... but somehow doing it with others made it ok! WEIRD...but ok!

The show ended up to tons and tons of cheering. By now Erin and Wayne are hammered like crazy. I can't comment on Tiff, she looked ok. Erin rushes the stage and steals the mega-metal spatula from the egg cooking incident and brings it back. The bartender momentarily confiscates it as a weapon and then Erin gets it back and it goes down my pants. We smuggled it out later... after autographs! Tom came back out and Erin got a beauty: sign "Tom Green, 1992" Too funny!

So just when we though the night was done, we poured into the street and Tiff and Wayne called a cab. Wayne got rambunctious and picked up Erin and through her down on the trunk of the cab and pretended to h*mp her! They were drunk... it happens (*grin*) Well, the cab driver freaked and hit the gas and narrowly missed (by less than 6 inches) hitting another cab...he had to slam on the brakes!!!! He comes out and freaks out on Wayne saying that Wayne broke is trunk mounted antenna. The magnet had indeed come off. So to placate the freaking cab driver Wayne agreed to go to the bank and pay off the guy $65. The next thing that happen was augured by the fact that Wayne gave Tiff his sandals and house keys, and refused to let her come with him to the bank in the cab. (Hmm.... what does this mean?!?) Fast forward 10 minutes. Wayne calls Tiff's cell from home. He had gone to the bank, bolted on the cab driver...ran over to Ontario street. Explained to another cab driver that he is in a bit of a "situation" and was wondering if he could give him a ride home for $15. The cabbie said "Sure". Voila...to easy! HILARIOUS. Wayne is officially crazy! I like that about him!

What's going to happen next time Tom Green comes to town? I can't imagine!

Postscript: Erin spent the entire next day half dead with a brutal hang over on the couch. She’ll never learn that you have to drink lots of water when you drink 10 beer! *grin*

Saturday was a great day! Here's me and Big chilling on the deck after playing fetch. He's almost as tired as me! 

Ahhh... Thornley rocked the house on Friday night! It was some hard rocking head banging in your face rock and roll. They put on a great show that hit the crowd like a freight train (in a good way, of course) One example was kicking off the encore with Immigrant Song by led Zeppelin. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Boy can those boy play their axes! I saw about 12 different guitars during the show too! V.Cool. Definately worth the money. Note in this picture the two pairs of g-strings hanging from ian's mic stand. He's well liked by the ladies for obvious reasons (*grin*) Thanks to Julie for being my concert buddy. Next show Sloan and the the Tea Party coming in July! Awesome! 

As you can tell the crowd at Stages was loving every minute of it!!!!