Well we have a new baby in the family now, a beautiful bouncing baby Audi TT, 2001 with 54000kms and is almost like new as you can see. Barbara is well pleased with her purchase and hopes never to be caught doing its potential 150MPH anytime soon.
The other new baby is due on or around December 1st. Louise has had a really great pregnancy and finished work on Friday and is looking forward to a new life beginning real soon.
Little does she know that the real work is just about to begin
Will post as soon as we know more !
Hoping all of our friends are alive and well and that those to the North and Far far away North (Whitehorse) are not too cold yet !
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Family Business
Our side trip to Cherbourg is partly to deliver Mum & Dad(Yes they are coming on vacation too!)to a final resting place.
Several weeks ago Gordon mentioned that maybe we should check with the French authorities whether it was ok for us to take the urn into France.
Well surprise!! they wanted copies & translations of any supporting documents & worst case scenario, the urn should have been sealed by the French Consul in Scotland.
Anyway after some running around, money changing hands, here & in Scotland, the big day came & I took the sealed box that we had brought from Scotland down to the French Consul in Vancouver.
A very nice lady explained that the box had to be opened & unwrapped, but she didn't want me to open the urn( I swear there could have been anything in there)& then she bound it in a very pretty red,white & blue ribbon with a red wax seal. Paperwork up the ying yang & hopefully the customs officers in Paris will be as freaked out as everyone else has been.
We will attempt to remember to stand upwind.
To be Continued.....
Several weeks ago Gordon mentioned that maybe we should check with the French authorities whether it was ok for us to take the urn into France.
Well surprise!! they wanted copies & translations of any supporting documents & worst case scenario, the urn should have been sealed by the French Consul in Scotland.
Anyway after some running around, money changing hands, here & in Scotland, the big day came & I took the sealed box that we had brought from Scotland down to the French Consul in Vancouver.
A very nice lady explained that the box had to be opened & unwrapped, but she didn't want me to open the urn( I swear there could have been anything in there)& then she bound it in a very pretty red,white & blue ribbon with a red wax seal. Paperwork up the ying yang & hopefully the customs officers in Paris will be as freaked out as everyone else has been.
We will attempt to remember to stand upwind.
To be Continued.....
Vacation preparations
Well here we are almost ready to go.
We leave from Vancouver on Thursday June 26th with our favorite airline(not)-- Air Transat.
Louise & Jon are flying on Zoom ,lucky little beasts. We leave within 5 minutes of each other & arrive in Paris with about the same difference.Probably just as well that we are travelling separately,less chance of murder occurring early in the trip.
We spend the first night near the airport & on Saturday morning we will pick up our car & make our way to Cherbourg, about 3.5 to 4 hours providing we don't do any side trips(ie get lost).
We will stay in Cherbourg for 2 days- we have a little family business to conduct & I'll tell that story separately-we want to tour the D-day beaches & whatever else we can fit in.
We will be back in Paris on June 30th & will meet up with Caroline & Freddy.
We fly to Rome the following evening, Louise & Jon fly to Venice & Caroline & Freddy are staying another day in Paris.
We spend 2 days in Rome- Caroline & Freddy join us on the 2cnd day- & then take the train from Rome to Naples,local train from Naples to Sorrento & heaven help us the local bus to Positano.
If you have a strong stomache - go to Utube & look at some of the videos showing the bus ride. My brother Edward, who is coming in September,says the Italian drivers are even crazier than the ones in Saudi Arabia and that's saying a lot!!!!
THE WEDDING!!!!!! is on the 5th of July & apparently lasts about 20 minutes. However I have reason to believe that there will be a great deal of celebration occurring before & after.
Did we mention Gordon & I along with Louise & Jon are sharing an apartment for 5 days in Positano, hopefully we will all still be speaking to one another at the end.
We also hope to fit in a trip to Capri, Vesuvius & Pompei. We should also return exceedingly fit as Positano is very nearly vertical.
Caroline & Freddy head home on the 8th, Louise & Jon will spend a couple of days in Rome & Paris & fly home on the 12th.
We go to Venice, where some friends from the UK are going to meet up with us & then we finish up in Paris for our flight home on the 14th.
Since Gordon has his NEW super dooper video camera, we will probably hve an epic for all & sundry to view just as soon as we figure out how it all works!
We will attempt to keep everyone posted.
We leave from Vancouver on Thursday June 26th with our favorite airline(not)-- Air Transat.
Louise & Jon are flying on Zoom ,lucky little beasts. We leave within 5 minutes of each other & arrive in Paris with about the same difference.Probably just as well that we are travelling separately,less chance of murder occurring early in the trip.
We spend the first night near the airport & on Saturday morning we will pick up our car & make our way to Cherbourg, about 3.5 to 4 hours providing we don't do any side trips(ie get lost).
We will stay in Cherbourg for 2 days- we have a little family business to conduct & I'll tell that story separately-we want to tour the D-day beaches & whatever else we can fit in.
We will be back in Paris on June 30th & will meet up with Caroline & Freddy.
We fly to Rome the following evening, Louise & Jon fly to Venice & Caroline & Freddy are staying another day in Paris.
We spend 2 days in Rome- Caroline & Freddy join us on the 2cnd day- & then take the train from Rome to Naples,local train from Naples to Sorrento & heaven help us the local bus to Positano.
If you have a strong stomache - go to Utube & look at some of the videos showing the bus ride. My brother Edward, who is coming in September,says the Italian drivers are even crazier than the ones in Saudi Arabia and that's saying a lot!!!!
THE WEDDING!!!!!! is on the 5th of July & apparently lasts about 20 minutes. However I have reason to believe that there will be a great deal of celebration occurring before & after.
Did we mention Gordon & I along with Louise & Jon are sharing an apartment for 5 days in Positano, hopefully we will all still be speaking to one another at the end.
We also hope to fit in a trip to Capri, Vesuvius & Pompei. We should also return exceedingly fit as Positano is very nearly vertical.
Caroline & Freddy head home on the 8th, Louise & Jon will spend a couple of days in Rome & Paris & fly home on the 12th.
We go to Venice, where some friends from the UK are going to meet up with us & then we finish up in Paris for our flight home on the 14th.
Since Gordon has his NEW super dooper video camera, we will probably hve an epic for all & sundry to view just as soon as we figure out how it all works!
We will attempt to keep everyone posted.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The amazing Vince (Invincible)
Our eldest daughter Louise has recently (Christmas) acquired a "child".
He is a Beagle who is very cute and is of course presently willing to eat anything and everything.
He did something very bad but kind of neat today, by eating one of the keys off of her laptop computer.
Not so strange you might think, until we consider which letter he ate. Would you believe it? It was of course the letter V ! Strange eh !
Way to go Vince.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Italia or bust in 2008 !
Planning is now under way for our Summer vacation.
This was necessitated by the fact that we are attending the wedding of our niece (Maria) who is being married in Italy, despite the fact that she lives in Scotland (Glasgow, our home city).
She will be wed to her beau (Scott) in the very fashionable Le Sireneuse Hotel, in Positano, on the Amalfi coast, south of Sorrento.
We are going by way of Paris, and Cherbourg (in northwest France). We have booked a villa for 5 days in which to luxuriate during the festivities here. We will also take in Naples, Pompeii, Sorrento and of course the enchanting Island of Capri. Gordon was here 40 years ago and is looking forward to returning.
After this we may go back up to Rome and Venice, or perhaps slip over to the French Riviera to soak up some sun before returning back to Paris for our flight home to Vancouver.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
New Beginnings-The Birth of our new baby blog
With apologies to those who have been doing this stuff for a while.
We have today, to announce, a new beginning - The birth of a Baby blog. A new little rambling to share with our friends and anyone else who might stumble upon it decently or otherwise.
We, and the dogs, Aries and Gemma, hope to share with you all, some insight into our lives, interests, pastimes and travels from this momentous day, forwards into what will become history, for as long as we are able.
This year particularly will contain some interesting foreign content as we continue to plan yet another major family expedition to the former continent across the pond, from whence we came.
Much to the disgust of one friend in particular who, we promise to have eating his words before the end of this century. we may yet swear allegiance to the two coloured flag. Who knows ?
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