Some random scratchings and scribblings from the life and times of the action master... er... Actionhamster!
I know this is a guinea pig but I pretend it's a
hamster 'cuz I like the karate pose. So deal!
Erin and I went Cross Country Skiing at Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area last weekend. It was loads of fun. We saw Jen and Kevin there too. Small world!
Erin has her 20 week ultrasound today and it went really well. Heart rate is 150 bpm. Everything looked really good. The technician had a chance to run a 3D image of the face for us. The baby is so cute holding his/her hand up to his/her chin like that. I call him/her "The Thinker" HAHA! Thanks to Michelle for coming with us this morning.
It's official, there is a life in my belly! Today was the first Ultrasound.
Eric, Julie and I saw the little one, it was incredible! Jules even shed a few tears (shh don't tell her I told you, she likes to act all tough but she is a softie when it comes to being an aunt!).
The heartrate was 155(hbm), some non-scientific speculators would say its a boy....
The fetus was 8.5cm long from head to rump/bum not including legs and arms, about 3.4 inches. My placenta is in the front, we saw its hand, well only four fingers. The wee one is 14 weeks and 2 days old and we are due July 21/07. We even got to see its legs running, it was wild! A future runner or skater perhaps, Eric says a future Steve Yzerman! Eric is a proud papa! Here is the picture, kind of skeleton like but beautiful none the less! We are very happy everything is A-OK!
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.
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!
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.
There were several life-like displays. Here's one a fallen soldier in the mud. Scary.
Hitler's Mercedes. It's black and has bullet holes it in. What an amazing relic of WWII history.
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 ;-)
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?
Avian Flu from the front (without the hat and face mask). Check out the very gross makeup on Julie. Bleck!!!
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!
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!
CHEERS!!!!!!!! Some big whigs came out to party too. Here's Mayor Harvey Rosen partying with the best of them. Way to go BigHarv!
It was wall-to-wall people on Aberdeen Street! Here's the intersection of Aberdeen and William Streets.
Whe're not sure why there was a bagel participating in the street party this year? However, Homecomming doesn't discriminate! Go bagel Go!
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.
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.
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.
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!
Here's the stop light at the intersection of Consession and Alfred. Six second exposure.... timed perfectly thanks to Erin on the stop watch!
